JAKARTA - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa, which damaged a wheat carrier and killed four people, was an attack on global food security.
"This shows how close this war is to Algeria, Syria, and other countries," Andrii Sybiha said on X.
Ships hit by Russian attacks should send wheat to Algeria.
Ballistic missiles hit the bulk carrier MJ Pinar, which was loading wheat for Algeria, killing four Syrian nationals and injuring one Syrian citizen and a Ukrainian, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olexy Kuleba said on Telegram.
Global grain trading company Louis Dreyfus Company said in an emailed statement the ship was loading goods at the Brooklyn-Kiev terminal in Odesa port, with terminal infrastructure also damaged.
The LDC said its terminal employees survived, with the death toll among the chartered crew.
Ukraine, like Russia, is the main seed exporter. Ukraine has succeeded in rebuilding large-scale maritime exports during the war, despite Russia attacking ports.
Andriy Klymenko of the Institute for Strategic Studies of the Black Sea, said Russia would continue to attack the Ukrainian port.
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"(We) estimate and warn that Russia will continue and intensify its attacks on the ports of the Black Sea and the Ukrainian Donau in an effort to stop the operation of maritime corridors and at the same time create conditions to increase exports of its own maritime grains," Klymenko said on Facebook.
He said in the January-October period last year there were at least 113 Russian attacks on ports, energies, and other infrastructure in the Odesa region, which included the sea corridor.
"At the end of 2024, for the first time, 7 foreign ships were damaged by this attack," he said.
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