Since the beginning of the operation of the food export corridor in the Black Sea, 321 infrastructure facilities in Ukrainian ports have been damaged as a result of Russian attacks.
This was reported by President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Third International Grain from Ukraine Conference.
“Solely during the operation of the food export corridor in our Black Sea – from July of last year to this month – 321 infrastructure facilities in our ports have been damaged by Russian missiles and Iranian drone’ strikes. More than 20 vessels – ordinary civilian vessels – were also damaged in the strikes. And we are talking about other countries’ vessels. It is not about Ukrainian vessels. More than 60 targeted strikes were aimed specifically at food infrastructure,” Zelensky said.
He noted that for Ukraine it was crucial to emphasize food security on these days when the country commemorated the victims of the large-scale, artificial famine in Ukraine, primarily the Holodomor of 1932-1933, which was orchestrated by the then-Moscow authorities.
“More than 90 years have passed, but the memory of this in Ukrainian families has not and will not fade, because millions of people died. We should certainly value every person, tens, thousands, hundreds of thousands. But when it comes to the Holodomor, it is a real genocide, because millions of people died,” the President stressed. (Ukrinform)