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Ukraine’s blockade-breaking Danube ports battle rising costs

Exporters warn future grain production under threat from expense of avoiding Russia’s navy in Black Sea

Zachar Medvedev shrugged when the air raid warning sounded, despite the Russian drone attack that had hit Ukraine’s river port of Izmail only 12 hours earlier.

“As the saying goes, if you are scared of wolves, don’t go into the forest,” said the 33-year-old, who manages the grain export facility built on the Danube by Nibulon, one of Ukraine’s biggest agro-industrial companies.

For the past two months, Russia has launched waves of drone attacks on Ukraine’s Danube ports. Their aim has been to cripple Ukraine’s economic infrastructure and the export routes set up to break Moscow’s naval blockade of the Black Sea, Kyiv and its western allies say.

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