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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces fired dozens of missiles and rockets over the weekend in the southern city of Mykolaiv, killing agricultural magnate Oleksiy Vadatursky.
Nibulon, owned by Vadaturskyi, exported more than 5.6 million tons of wheat, barley, corn and other agricultural products to 38 countries last year.
His wife, Raisa, was also killed in the shelling, Zelensky said.
“It is precisely such people, such companies, our southern Ukraine, that have ensured global food security. It has always been so. And it will be so again,” Zelensky said Sunday. said to
“Russian terrorists should not expect to be able to destroy Ukraine’s social and industrial potential and walk through the ruins.”
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Nibulon confirmed Vadaturskyi’s death on Saturday, saying the businessman stayed in his native Mykolaiv to help the city after Russia invaded earlier this year.
“The entire 7,000-strong team of NIBULON and all of Ukraine suffered irreparable losses,” the company said in a statement.
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Both Russia and Ukraine supply the world with grain, increasing the potential for war-induced food insecurity.
The two countries agreed last week to allow the safe passage of grain-carrying ships from ports in southern Ukraine. Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine is ready to release its first shipment of grain from the Odessa region.