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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Odesa and Pjotr Sauer

Ukraine restores Danube River ports in emergency effort to get grain out

A waterway flowing to the mouth of the Danube in Odesa. Due to Russia’s Black Sea blockade, Ukraine is expanding river ports in the Danube to facilitate the export of grain.
A waterway flowing to the mouth of the Danube in Odesa. Due to Russia’s Black Sea blockade, Ukraine is expanding river ports in the Danube to facilitate the export of grain. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

Ukraine is restoring and expanding some of its long-decommissioned river ports on the Danube to facilitate the exportation of grain due to Russia’s Black Sea blockade.

Before the war, Ukrainian river ports on the Danube were seldom used, with some of them in complete disrepair. But following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its control of exit routes to the Black Sea , Kyiv is resuscitating its old river harbours in order to avoid the sea blockade and accelerate the exportation of the country’s wheat.

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