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Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack - BBC
Business and Economy8/12/20261 min read
Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other's shipping facilities and ports.
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- A "massive" Ukrainian drone and missile strike on Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk damaged two major grain export terminals and hit Russia's last big naval base on the Black Sea, according to reports.
- Local officials said three people were killed β including an eight-year-old child β and 24 others were injured in the overnight attack.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky described the assault as a "unique operation" involving rockets, jet and naval drones, and Ukraine's military later claimed four Russian warships, including two frigates, were hit; Russia did not comment, and Zelensky did not mention the grain terminals.
- Most of Russia's Black Sea fleet is now based in Novorossiysk after being forced to leave Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, and the attack follows an escalation in Black Sea strikes this summer after relative calm.
- The Russian agriculture ministry said it was redirecting cargo flows to Baltic and Caspian Sea ports and land routes amid "logistical constraints," while grain trading companies confirmed their terminals were struck; explosions damaged pipelines and suspended the city's water supply, prompting a declared emergency.
- Moscow's own overnight strikes killed at least 11 civilians in Ukraine between Tuesday and Wednesday, most in Zaporizhzhia via ballistic missiles and glide bombs, and Zelensky told CNN that Ukraine would need about a tenth of the current US interceptor missile stockpile to stop all Russian ballistic attacks.
Elsewhere in the region a man was killed by drone debris, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. Several locations in the surrounding Krasnodar region were also struck by "several hundred drones