Two huge facilities in the city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, designed to store grains and vegetable oils and export them through the city’s port, were hit by a Russian missile strike, Vitera and Bunge, operators of the two facilities, told AFP. .

A spokesman for Vitera said storage tanks for the export of vegetable oils at a commercial port in the city of Nikolaev were “damaged by a missile attack,” which also resulted in one person being slightly injured. He added that as a result of the bombing, two of his tanks caught fire, and the third tank was damaged.

This huge 160,000 ton vegetable oil export facility was acquired in 2020 by the Glencore group, the owner of Vitera.

In turn, a spokeswoman for Bonga said that the company’s facilities in Nikolaev “suffered during recent Russian attacks in the region”, noting that there were no casualties as a result of the bombing and that it was not possible to immediately assess the scale of the accident. damage.

The Bong facility, closed since the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, includes a storage center, another for loading ships, and a cooking oil plant.

With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the export of agricultural raw materials through the ports of Nikolaev and Odessa stopped.