The first vessel used the temporary corridor for merchant ships to/from the ports of Big Odesa.
Oleksandr Kubrakov announced this on the morning of August 16 on his Facebook page.
For the sake of constant improvement of crop yield and efficiency of agricultural production, NIBULON has started a sowing campaign of winter rapeseed for the harvest of 2024 using advanced technology.
Romania aims to double the monthly transit capacity of Ukrainian grain to its flagship Black Sea port of Constanta to 4 million tonnes in the coming months, particularly via the Danube river, Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu said.
Russia has once again ignored international maritime conventions.
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine - Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, wrote about this on Facebook.
A ground preparation machine developed by Kharkiv-based manufacturers has been certified. The manufacturing company has already received a certificate of conformity and a declaration of conformity, which allows it to be manufactured and used for demining.
The port in Izmail was attacked at night by Russian "Shahed" drones. The Prosecutor General's Office reported significant destruction.
Massive UAV attack on the port and industrial infrastructure of Odesa - an investigation has been launched.
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine - Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine declared:
"I opened the historic first meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council, initiated on July 22 by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a conversation with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
We discussed Russia's obstruction of free navigation in the Black Sea. The enemy's goal is obvious — to deprive the world of Ukrainian food, thereby creating a global food crisis.
The All-Ukrainian Public Organization «Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation» together with the leading agrarian associations that are part of the PU “Ukrainian National Agrarian Forum” - the Public Union “Agrarian Union of Ukraine”, the Public Union “All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council”, the Association «Poultry Union of Ukraine», the Association “Ukrainian Club of the Agrarian Business” appealed to the Executive Vice-President, Trade Commissioner of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, with a request to support the initiative to introduce subsidies by the European Commission for transportation of Ukrainian agricultural products to the ports of the Baltic countries, Germany, the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia.
The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 122.3 points in June 2023, down 1.7 points (1.4 percent) from May, continuing the downward trend and averaging as much as 37.4 points (23.4 percent) below the peak it reached in March 2022.
The grain agreement between Ukraine and Russia was meant to secure the global export of Ukrainian grain. It is now on the verge of being terminated. What would that mean?