Kyiv: Ukraine to resume grain exports from Black Sea ports stalled by Russia-Ukraine war. Ukraine's decision to resume exports from its ports comes just days before an agreement with the United Nations aimed at alleviating global food shortages comes into force, despite threats of Russian missile attacks.

Russia launched a missile attack on Ukraine's southern ports shortly after Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements with the United Nations for grain exports. With this, the UN countries turned against Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Saturday's attack as "barbarism" that showed Moscow could not be trusted to implement a deal struck just one day earlier with Turkish and United Nations mediation.

The Ukrainian military, quoted by public broadcaster Suspilne, said the Russian missiles did not hit the port's grain storage area or cause significant damage. Kyiv said preparations to resume grain shipments were ongoing.

"We continue technical preparations for the launch of exports of agricultural products from our ports," Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a Facebook post.
The strikes came less than 24 hours after Russia's defence minister signed a deal brokered by the UN and Turkey to let Kyiv export millions of tons of grain from its Black Sea ports. Ukraine said the rocket attack had violated Russia's promise not to attack the grain export infrastructure and called the viability of Friday's deal into question.

Russia's missile attack at the Ukrainian port was strongly condemned by the United Nations, the Union, the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy. UN officials said they expected the agreement to be operational within a few days.

The resumption of exports from Black Sea ports could help curb global food inflation.