Every Russian strike on Ukrainian ports is a blow to world food prices – Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that every Russian attack on Ukrainian ports is a blow to world food prices.

He said this in his evening video address to the nation, Ukrinform reports.

“Last night, Russian terrorists again targeted our ports. Our infrastructure, which is involved in ensuring not ours, but the common - global - food security. In just one month since Russia's attempt to undermine the Black Sea Grain Initiative, this was the seventh, seventh massive Russian attack today. The port of Reni, the port of Izmail, Pivdennyi port, the port of Odesa, the port of Chornomorsk, Mykolaiv - every Russian attack on them is a blow to global food prices, a blow to social and political stability in Africa and Asia. The basic things that give every society a normal life are food on the family table,” Zelensky said.

He stressed that “no terrorist in the world, except for Russia, has ever attacked the security of so many nations at once so blatantly and deliberately.”

“We need to respond to this. All of us! We need to counteract this - actively, with joint efforts!” the President stressed.

He also thanked all the leaders and states that help Ukraine defend the state, and thus the common security of everyone in the world.

“Air defense systems for Ukraine, weapons for our warriors, sanctions, financial and political pressure on Russia are the main things now that guarantee security and the return of peace not just to one country, but to the whole world,” Zelensky stressed.

As reported, warehouses and grain storage facilities of one of the Danube ports were destroyed in an nighttime drone attack on Odesa region.