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Romania, US condemn Russia for hitting grain silos in Ukraine

Romania, US condemn Russia for hitting grain silos in Ukraine

Romania and the United States condemned Russia for concentrating on grain silos and ports within the Danube River area on the Ukraine-Romania border.

“I strongly condemn the continued RU attacks on innocent people, civilian infrastructure, including grain silos in (Ukraine’s) ports of Reni & Ismail,” Romania’s Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu posted on social media.

“By these flagrant violations of int’l law RU continues to jeopardize (global) food security & the safety of navigation in the Black Sea,” she added.

The U.S. additionally condemned Russia’s drone strikes on Ukraine’s Danube infrastructure, saying that it confirmed that President Vladimir Putin didn’t care about meals provide for the creating world.

“It is unacceptable. Putin simply does not care about global food security,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel advised reporters.

Warehouses and grain silos had been broken in a single port in a single day, the regional administration of Odesa mentioned, with out naming the precise location. Ukraine has two primary ports on the Danube: Reni and Izmail.

Videos on social media in the meantime confirmed assaults on the port of Reni.

The blazes had been extinguished by the fireplace brigade, Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram. No one was killed or injured, he mentioned.

Ukraine’s economic system, crunched by the conflict, is closely depending on farming. Its agricultural exports, like these of Russia, are additionally essential for world provides of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and different meals that creating nations depend on.

A month in the past, the Kremlin placed on maintain an settlement brokered final summer time by the U.N. and Türkiye to make sure secure Ukraine grain exports by means of the Black Sea. Since then, Kyiv has sought to reroute transport by means of the Danube and street and rail hyperlinks into Europe. But transport prices that approach are a lot greater, with some European international locations balking on the penalties for native grain costs, and the Danube ports can not deal with wherever close to the identical volumes as seaports.

Odesa’s Kiper mentioned the first targets of Russia’s in a single day drone bombardment had been port terminals and grain silos, together with on the ports within the Danube delta. Air defenses managed to intercept 13 drones over Odesa and Mykolaiv areas, in keeping with the Ukraine air power’s morning replace.

It was the most recent assault amid weeks of aerial strikes as Russia has focused the Danube delta ports, that are solely about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the border with Romania, a NATO member. The Danube is Europe’s second-longest river and a key transport route.

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