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Russian forces have encountered a new enemy in the Black Sea: Ukraine’s arsenal of naval kamikaze drones. These deceptively small unmanned vehicles have targeted Russia’s Black Sea Fleet since September 2022, picking off Russian battleships one by one. The latest of Ukraine’s maritime conquests was the Russian Mangust-class patrol boat, which it destroyed off the coast of occupied Crimea with a MAGURA naval drone. Ukraine shifted its focus to naval drones after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Due to their unavailability on the market, the Ukrainian military decided ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Losses caused by the Polish blockade of the Ukrainian border amounted to $500 million in lost imports and $160 million in exports in its first month, the National Bank of Ukraine said on May 14. Polish farmers and truckers held protests at the border due to fear of uneven competition with their Ukrainian counterparts, first between November 2023 and January and then in another wave starting in February. By late April, the protests were largely over. The lost imports were partially compensated through alternative supplies, and the exports were offset by trade via the new Black Sea corridor, the...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Ukrainian grain exports decreased in March and are expected to further slow down this year amid lower supply and smaller harvest predictions. Grain exports amounted to 5.2 million metric tons in March, down from 5.8 million metric tons the month before, according to various estimates. After Kyiv set up its own corridor in the Black Sea following Russia’s withdrawal from the U.N.-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative in July 2023, shippers rushed to get grain to market, leading to higher export volumes in recent months. The larger volumes were also due to large backlogs of grain traders had to se...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on March 8 in Turkey, the Turkish Presidency said on X. The two leaders will discuss Russia’s war, the Black Sea grain deal, and bilateral relations, according to the announcement. The grain deal, first brokered by Turkey and the UN in July 2022, allowed Ukraine to export its grain even amid the ongoing full-scale Russian invasion. Moscow unilaterally terminated the deal in July 2023. Ukraine launched a new Black Sea corridor in August without Russia's participation. Erdogan visited Sochi on Feb. 4 to meet Russ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
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