MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's agriculture minister said on Friday that Moscow had begun free shipments of grain totalling up to 200,000 tonnes to six African countries, as promised by President Vladimir Putin in July. In a statement posted on Telegram, Dmitry Patrushev said that ships headed for Burkina Faso and Somalia had already left Russian ports, and that additional shipments to Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Mali and the Central African Republic would soon follow. Putin had promised to deliver free grain to the six countries at a summit with African leaders in July, soon after Moscow withdrew from a deal that had allowed Ukraine to ship grain from its Black Sea ports despite the war with Russia.
The Russian army has severely bombarded Cherkasy Oblast with attack drones overnight, with hits occurring to grain storage facilities in the city of Uman. Source: Ihor Taburets, Head of the Cherkasy Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES); Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Details: The grain storage facilities caught fire.
Russian drones hit three civilian infrastructure facilities in Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, on the night of 30 September-1 October: a grain storage facility and two facilities at a defunct oil terminal. Source: Ihor Taburets, Head of the Cherkasy Oblast Military Administration; Volodymyr Kulbitskyi, chief engineer at the grain storage facility, in a comment for Suspilne DRONE STRIKE ON AN INDUSTRIAL FACILITY IN UMAN.
Russian forces have attacked the port infrastructure in Odesa overnight, significantly damaging the Odesa marine terminal building and a hotel, destroying grain storage facilities and damaging warehouse buildings.
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said on Wednesday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said the port's export capacity had been reduced by 15% and that 13,000 metric tons of grain had been destroyed. Grain facilities in the Odesa region on the Black Sea also came under fire in the eighth wave of attacks on Ukr