How much of Russia’s biggest grain port did Ukraine’s drones just knock offline?

Source: Vedomosti

Ukrainian drones damaged two grain terminals at the port of Novorossiysk overnight, the Russian business daily Vedomosti and Reuters reported.

One of the terminals, the Novorossiysk Grain Terminal, suspended operations after infrastructure used to transfer agricultural cargo was damaged, sources told Vedomosti.

Infrastructure was also damaged at a second facility, the grain terminal of the Novorossiysk Bread Products Plant. The press service of its parent company, United Grain Company, said it would share more details on the repair timeline later. Three sources told Reuters that this terminal also suspended operations.

No one was hurt in the attacks on either terminal.

The port of Novorossiysk has three grain terminals, according to Vedomosti. The press service of the third, the KSK grain terminal — one of Russia’s largest deep-water grain terminals — declined to comment.

Ukrainian drones attacked Krasnodar Krai overnight on August 12. The strike on Novorossiysk killed an eight-year-old child and left at least 12 people hospitalized. Monitoring channels reported a fire at the port, and officials shut off the city’s water supply after main pipelines were damaged; a state of emergency was declared.

Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, and most of its shipments pass through Black Sea ports — including Novorossiysk.

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