Surge in Black Sea Attacks Adds to Strain on Global Commodity Flows
Ukraine’s central bank said the strikes cut $2.5 billion in export income and pushed world wheat prices up 20% since early July.
- Russian strikes on Black Sea ports revived the blockade two weeks ago, forcing cargo ships out and causing grain to pile up across Ukraine as traders halted activity.
- Ukraine's central bank measured a $2.5 billion loss in export income during the second half of this year, with the blockade reducing total economic output by 0.9% for 2026.
- Heavy industry faces mounting strain as Ferrexpo suspended operations at its central plant, and Metinvest, owned by Rinat Akhmetov, idled one of its mines due to export difficulties.
- Global wheat prices climbed 20% since July, the Security Council reports, impacting the Middle East and North Africa, which rely on roughly 7% of world wheat that Ukraine typically ships.
- The corn harvest arrives in mid-September with nowhere to store it, while the Danube river route is expected to drop too low to assist with exports by then.
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Ukrainian wheat prices fall below cost as Russia’s blockade reaches the mines
Two weeks ago, Russian strikes drove the ships out of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, and Euromaidan Press reported that grain was piling up with nowhere to go. Now the bill is coming in. Explore further Russia’s strikes stopped Ukraine’s grain ships. Its farmers are the ones paying First to the farms. With no ships to load, traders have stopped buying, and the price they offer has dropped so far that Ukrainian farmers are, in places, selling wheat …
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