Ukraine loses about $70 million daily from the downtime of the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk (until 2016 - Ilyichevsk) and Yuzhny (the ports of Greater Odessa), according to the calculations of the Ukrainian edition of Ekonomicheskaya Pravda (EP). Thus, on average, about $70 million worth of products passed through them every day," the EP said. In the first half of the year Ukraine exported 50.7 million tons of goods, of which about 34 million tons or two thirds passed through the ports of Greater Odessa. As for exports and imports, of the total 68.5 million tons of goods, more than 40 million tons passed through the sea checkpoints alone, that is, every six tons out of ten, the EP said. The Russian Defense Ministry regularly reports attacks on the Ukrainian ports used for the delivery of military supplies.