Ukrainian Naval Drones Attack Russian Black Sea Port
agricultural exports before the war, a key link in the global food supply chain. Ukraine supplied about 9% of the world’s exported wheat and nearly half the world’s sunflower oil before the Russian invasion.
Russia struck a Ukrainian port on the Danube River early on Wednesday, targeting another route that Ukraine uses to export grain, while Moscow and Kyiv have traded threats to attack ships headed to each other’s ports in recent weeks. The Russian Defense Ministry said it averted an attack on ships near the port of Sevastopol in Crimea earlier this week.
By imposing a blockade on Ukraine’s ports and stepping up its own Black Sea exports of grain, oil and other commodities, Russia has effectively seized control of a larger share of the vital trade routes in the waterway. Novorissiysk accounts for 17% of Russia’s maritime trade.
Russia also uses the port for transporting weapons using commercial cargo ships, the Journal previously reported. A U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship, Sparta IV, was pictured in the port carrying artillery weapons in satellite imagery in July.
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