The volume included about 10.4 million tonnes of wheat, 16.7 million tonnes of corn and about 1.9 million tonnes of barley. Exports at the same stage of the prior season were 40.9 million tonnes.
The ministry said grain exports in February had reached 2.2 million tonnes as of Feb. 13, down from 2.4 million tonnes in the same period last year. After an almost six-month blockade caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, three Ukrainian Black Sea ports were unblocked at the end of July under a deal between Moscow and Kyiv brokered by the United Nations and Turkey. A major global grain grower and exporter, Ukraine's grain output is likely to have dropped to about 51 million tonnes in clean weight in calendar 2022 from a record 86 million tonnes in 2021. Officials have blamed the fall on hostilities in the country's eastern, northern and southern regions. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk, editing by Ed Osmond)
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