Drone strikes damaged three grain terminals at Russia’s Black Sea port of
Novorossiysk, including a United Grain Company processing plant where a loading
conveyor collapsed, and hit loading corridors and truck-unloading facilities;
the Kosk grain terminal was also struck. The attacks occurred as Ukraine has
stepped up strikes on key maritime infrastructure. Russia and Ukraine have
recently increased attacks on each other’s Black Sea commercial vessels and
ports, stoking grain supply concerns and helping push wheat to a two-year high
in July. The two countries together supply more than a quarter of global wheat
exports, and farmers are in the mid-season harvest.
