KYIV: Shipowners have temporarily suspended vessel arrivals at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports for agricultural exports after a recent surge in Russian attacks on ports and merchant shipping, the country’s agriculture minister said. Ukraine has lost about a third of its capacity to export grain via the Black Sea ports due to Russian missile and drone attacks, traders and analysts have said. “As of today, the entry of ships has been suspended. This is a decision taken by the shipowners.

Ukrainian attacks in and around the Sea of Azov have sharply reduced Russia's grain exports at the start of the new agricultural season, leaving millions of tons of grain stranded…

Ukraine says Russian strikes have halted traffic through its Black Sea corridor, threatening grain exports and global food supplies at peak harvest.