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July 20- Russian strikes on Ukrainian port areas continued on Thursday, local authorities said, after Moscow warned that ships heading to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports could be considered military targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As concerns grew over Russia pulling out of a deal that has protected global shipments of Ukrainian grain, authorities in the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions reported some 20 people injured in the strikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Russia’s exit from the year-old threatening to worsen global food supplies, Ukraine said on Wednesday it was establishing a temporary shipping route via Romania, a neighbouring Black Sea country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advertisement \u00b7 Scroll to continue<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Its goal is to facilitate the unblocking of international shipping in the north-western part of the Black Sea,” Vasyl Shkurakov, Ukraine’s acting minister for communities, territories and infrastructure development, said in a letter to the U.N.’s International Shipping Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ukraine and Russia are among the world’s top grain exporters. U.S. wheat futures jumped 8.5% on Wednesday, their biggest daily gain since days after Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of its neighbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advertisement \u00b7 Scroll to continue<\/p>\n\n\n\n