With foreign shipping companies now unable to enter Ukrainian ports, the country's economy will obviously suffer, particularly its agricultural sector, Alexander Dudchak, a leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and an expert of the "Other Ukraine" movement, told TASS. Some 42 million tons of cargo were transshipped through Ukrainian ports, of which about 24 million tons were Ukrainian agricultural products. How can such volumes of grain be delivered to consumers overland? The expert noted that recently grain terminals in Ukrainian ports have reduced their operations by about a third, and cargo transshipment volumes have begun to decline sharply. The Russian Defense Ministry had previously reported strikes on Ukrainian ports used for the delivery of military cargo to Ukrainian armed forces.