russia is trying to destroy Ukraine’s export potential by constant attacks on maritime infrastructure: Oleksii Kuleba

The aggressor is deliberately intensifying attacks on the port infrastructure of the Ukrainian south. The purpose of the attacks is to reduce Ukraine’s export potential and deliberately provoke a food crisis in those parts of the world that are directly dependent on Ukrainian grain supplies.

“The targets of enemy shelling are primarily ports, civilian vessels and grain storage facilities. Thus, over the past three months, the enemy has carried out almost 60 such attacks. They resulted in damage and destruction of almost 300 port infrastructure facilities, 177 vehicles and 22 civilian vessels. There were 79 civilian casualties. Among them are employees of ports, logistics companies and ship crews,” said Oleksii Kuleba, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities and Territories Development.

At the same time, he stressed that every war crime had been documented by law enforcement and russia would be held accountable for every attack against civilians, humanity and international law.

“For its part, the world must respond to these attacks accordingly, because the consequences of the shelling are felt not only in Ukraine. First of all, it affects the countries of the Global South and Europe. More than 40 countries receive our grain today, including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Spain, Turkey, and the Netherlands,” said Oleksii Kuleba.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that the international community should increase pressure on russia, as silence and inaction only increase the enemy’s impunity.

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