Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, said that in just two days, Russian ballistic attacks damaged two civilian cargo ships in Odesa.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal met with Ambassador of Japan Matsuda Kuninori, who is completing his diplomatic mission in Ukraine.
The Head of the Ukrainian Government expressed gratitude for Japan's support of UN resolutions in favour of our country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Peace Formula, in particular in terms of nuclear safety, and for the signing of the security agreement.
The losses from Russia's theft of Ukrainian grain have exceeded 30 billion hryvnias, but that figure is not final, according to Yuriy Bielousov, head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Armed Conflict at the Office of the Prosecutor General on Saturday, Sep. 21.
"Russia is essentially blackmailing the international community by creating a real threat of famine for other countries," Bielousov said.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has ratified the decision on Ukraine's accession to the Agreement Establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development. The decision was drafted by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.
Ukraine's accession to the International Fund for Agricultural Development will facilitate access to new financial resources for agricultural development for agricultural producers. In particular, it will provide Ukrainian farmers with:
Ukraine's grain exports were likely to rise back to their pre-war level in a couple of years thanks to the successful operation of the maritime grain corridor, Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation analyst Artem Havrysh said in an interview with S&P Global Commodity Insights.
The Governments of Ukraine and the Republic of India signed an Agreement on cooperation in the fields of agriculture and food industry. The purpose of the Agreement is to expand mutually beneficial cooperation, create favourable conditions for market relations and increase the national food security of the countries.
The document was signed by the Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Taras Vysotskyi, and the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of India, Vikram Misri.
The volume of the quota for the export of wheat from Ukraine in 2024/25 MY is proposed to be set at the level of 16.2 million tonnes, while the quota for the export of wheat with a protein content of 11% and above is proposed at the level of 4.6 million tonnes. Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyi announced this during his speech at the Trend & Hedge Club on August 21.
The first meeting of the SME Resilience Alliance was held with the participation of the First Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Oleksiy Sobolev and representatives of development institutions, international organizations and banks from different countries of the world. Ukraine together with 12 other countries, 17 development institutions and international financial organizations formed the Alliance within the framework of the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC-2024), which took place in Berlin in June. The co-chairs of the Alliance Secretariat are the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ).
According to the State Customs Service, as of June 30, 2024, the export of grain from Ukraine in the 2023/2024 marketing year amounted to 50.826 million tonnes, which is 1.6 million tonnes or 3.2% more than in the previous season of 2022/23.
Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria started a joint mine-hunting force in the Black Sea on Monday to increase shipping safety, particularly for Ukrainian grain exports.