Over the past month, Russians have damaged four ships, including those carrying grain for Egypt and corn for Italy, as well as humanitarian cargo from the UN food programme for Palestine. As the attacks intensified, the government requested a monitoring mission from the International Maritime Organization.
In total, during the full-scale war, Russia has carried out more than 50 attacks on Ukrainian ports, damaging more than 300 facilities and 23 civilian vessels, and destroying more than 100,000 tonnes of agricultural products. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said this at a briefing in Odesa after talks with his counterparts from the Nordic-Baltic Eight countries: Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Finland.
‘I can inform you that against the backdrop of intensified Russian terror, Ukraine has officially appealed to the International Maritime Organization to immediately send an international monitoring mission to the ports of Greater Odesa,’ Sybiha said.
He added that Ukraine remains a guarantor of food security even in the face of such a terrible war. The country proposes to hold the third food summit by the end of the year.