Pavel Polityuk

Russia's Defence Ministry said it had downed 822 Ukrainian drones throughout the country in the latest attacks.

Ukraine has lost about a third of its capacity to export grain via its vital Black Sea ‌ports due to intensifying Russian missile and drone attacks, the country's main farmers' union said.

Ukraine will do ‌everything possible to protect its seaports and guarantee grain exports at no less than last season's level, its deputy economy minister, Taras Vysotskiy, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Ukraine's economy ministry has proposed raising state railway Ukrzaliznytsia's freight tariffs by 30% ‌from August 1 to help stabilise the company's financial position, although steelmakers and agricultural producers warned this could make them less competitive.

A rise in Russian attacks on Ukrainian seaports and vessels could cut monthly grain shipments by as much as a third and have left ​terminal operators facing mounting losses they say they cannot cover alone, officials and industry executives said.

Ukraine, whose energy system has been under constant Russian attack, will face power shortages ​and consumer outages in the summer months despite ‌imports and strong output from solar power plants, the DiXi Group think tank forecast.

Russian attacks on Ukraine's Black Sea ports have already caused serious damage to export terminals, threatening a significant reduction in shipments, including the ​country's key agricultural exports, Ukraine's largest farmers' union UAC said on ‌Wednesday.

Ukraine's state railway needs to increase its freight tariffs by ​at least 45% this year to help restore its finances and conclude a debt restructuring following a sharp escalation in ‌Russian attacks on its infrastructure, the company's CEO said.

Ukraine could harvest 22 to 23 million metric tons ​of wheat in 2026, in line ‌with 2025 production of 23 million tons, major farmers' union UAC's trade ​department said on Tuesday.

Ukraine will resume pumping ​oil through the Druzhba ‌pipeline on Wednesday afternoon, an industry ​source told Reuters, ​as Kyiv seeks to ⁠unlock a 90 ​billion euro EU ​loan it urgently needs.