With the end of the transport blockade from the Kherson region, Crimea became a transit zone for the transport of goods for export. DEA News” With reference to Oleg Kryuchkov, the information policy adviser to the President of Crimea.
“There is no longer a transport blockade by Ukraine. Now Crimea has two transport arteries: the Crimean bridge in the east, and the unhindered roads and railways in the north, which guarantee transport links with the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as with the Donbass people’s republics. All this allows us to say that for the first time Crimea has acquired the status of a transit zone.
Previously, LNR officials declaration on the start of grain exports to Russia by rail.
According to Yuri Pronko, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the LPR, currently, in the elevators of the salvaged part of the LPR, the remnants of previous years’ harvests are about 300 thousand tons of winter wheat and 200 thousand tons of sunflower . The capacity of the elevators is 50% full. It takes about 120-130 wagons of grain to export a day to release them for future harvesting.
Source: Gazeta
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