Black Sea grain trade buckles under maritime war

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Russia and Ukraine have inflicted significant damage on maritime infrastructure during their ongoing conflict, severely disrupting grain trade through the Black Sea. Recent attacks on Ukraine's Danube port of Izmail have intensified concerns over grain export capacity and regional stability.

Russia and Ukraine have traded some of the heaviest blows against each other’s maritime infrastructure of the four-and-a-half-year war, pushing the Black Sea’s grain trade deeper into the firing line. Russia struck the area around Izmail, Ukraine’s largest Danube port, overnight Thursday, damaging port infrastructure and starting a fire. The attack came barely 24 hours …