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have left the ports carrying 450,000 tons of grain. The most significant share of this freight was exported by the vessels that were loaded before the full-scale invasion," the expert said. He also emphasised that market participants now fear there will not be enough new vessels to provide the desired cargo volume. Currently, the sea export volume is at least three million tons per month.
Russia continues to steal millions of tons of grain. The occupiers are taking millions of tons of new grain from farmers in the temporarily occupied territories, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy reported. Minister Mykola Solskyi said farmers harvested 20 million tons of grain and oil crops before the territories were occupied. These regions traditionally have plenty of winter wheat and barley. "This means that the amount of misuse of the new harvest is calculated in millions of tons. These are crimes of a different nature, but in any case, - stealing," the minister said. According to Solskyi, farmers who have received support from the Ukrainian government and those who refuse to re-register their activities and cooperate with occupation authorities suffer the most from the occupiers.
Export volume through the grain corridors will be limited. Ukraine plans to partially limit the export of agricultural products by the sea in the first weeks of grain corridor operation, announced the Minister of Infrastructure, Oleksandr Kubrakov. "I think we will work in a trial mode for the first two weeks, so there will be no more than three ships per day in each direction. It is important that we understand that this route is safe, and then we will start increasing the number of ships," added Kubrakov. At the same time, the minister said they plan to reach the mark of three million tons of exported agricultural products in four to six weeks. "In the pre-war period, we exported five to seven million tons per month, so I think it does not look unrealistic," the minister said.
Grain stolen from Ukraine is being transported by 87 ships.According to the Ambassador of Ukraine to Lebanon, Ihor Ostash, "Currently, there is a criminal system that facilitates the transportation of stolen grain from Ukraine. Transit can take place through Turkey and travel directly to Syria, as well as to other countries in the Middle East. The diplomat added that recently Ukraine managed to locate one such ship, the Syrian ship Laodicea, near Tripoli although it was supposed to arrive at the port of Tartus. The vessel was arrested for 144 hours, and criminal proceedings were opened. As a result, it was established that 8,000 tons of flour, which were on board, were processed at the Krasnogvardiy elevator in Crimea. Investigators saw a bag of flour from Crimea and found all the evidence that Ukraine needs to prove the crime.
Ukraine proposes that Lebanon buys stolen Ukrainian grain from a ship docked in Tripoli. According to Ukraine's Embassy to Lebanon, Kyiv has proposed that the Lebanese government buy grain at a twice cheaper price than the market. Ukraine’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ihor Ostash earlier said that a Syrian ship loaded with grain stolen from the Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine docked in the port of Tripoli on July 27. Lebanon arrested the ship at the time of an investigation.
Export of IT services increased by 23%. The volume of IT service export for the first half of 2022 reached $3.74B. This is 23% more than in the same period of the previous year, the IT Ukraine Association reported. The tech sector brought UAH 110B in revenue and UAH 32.6B in taxes paid to Ukraine’s budget. According to the association’s executive director, Kostyantyn Vasyuk, the export figures for June indicate a decrease in growth rates compared to the
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