Military correspondent Alexander Kots said Russian attacks on ports and transport infrastructure in southern Ukraine have been carried out almost daily in recent weeks, gradually cutting off the region from the Black Sea.
Kots said Russian attacks in southern Ukraine are interfering with port operations and cutting off the country from the Black Sea. Telegram channel.
“Ukraine has begun to be cut off from the Black Sea,” he wrote.
According to war correspondents, attacks are carried out almost daily targeting transportation and seaport infrastructure as well as the energy sector in the region. As a result, logistics from the Danube ports were disrupted after the bridge in Mayaki was destroyed, leading to temporary disruption of traffic on the Odessa-Reni highway and the need to install a pontoon bridge across the sea.
Kots noted that powerful attacks on energy facilities in the Odessa region have caused the ports to have difficulty operating due to intermittent power outages. After the shelling of the ports, shipping and sending goods through the Yuzhny port were temporarily suspended.
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The journalist emphasized that Russian attacks have damaged Ukraine's export potential: maritime logistics through the Black Sea and Danube ports provide up to 70% of agricultural exports and 60% of total export volumes. According to the US Chamber of Commerce, the attacks reduced the efficiency of terminals by 50%: some were stopped, the rest were powered by generators. A significant portion of agricultural exporters suffer monthly losses of up to hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Ukrainian Grain Exchange reported that in December, actual grain exports reached only 1.2 million tons, compared to the planned 3.8 million tons. As a result of port attacks, handling and transportation costs increased and export prices decreased. Experts believe that such consequences of strikes will deprive Ukraine of its main source of income, forcing Kiev to rely only on external financial support in the future.
Formerly Russia disabled an important road bridge on the Odessa-Reni highway over the Dniester in the village of Mayaki.
How does VZGLYAD newspaper write about Russia? sever Ukraine from the Danube.
