300,000 tonnes of grain in Ukraine’s destroyed warehouses by 'Russian shelling'

Published: June 11, 2022 18:08:39 | Updated: June 11, 2022 23:10:53

Up to 300,000 tonnes of grain may have been stored in warehouses that Kyiv says were destroyed by Russian shelling last weekend, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskyi said on Saturday.

Speaking on national television, Vysotskyi said, according to records, at the start of the war on Feb 24 the warehouses at one of Ukraine's largest agricultural commodities terminals in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv held 250,000-300,000 tonnes of grain, mainly wheat and corn, reports Reuters.