Two of Russia's biggest grain terminals at the southern port of Novorossiysk have suspended operations as a result of overnight Ukrainian drone strikes.

Axar.az informs, citing Reuters, that according to four industry sources, Russia is the world's ​largest wheat exporter and most of those exports are shipped via its Black Sea ​ports like Novorossiysk.

Russia's main grain lobby group warned last month that Ukrainian ⁠drone attacks could shut down grain exports via the Black Sea in the near future, ​pushing up prices and causing hunger in Africa and the Middle East.

One industry source, who declined ​to be named due to the matter's sensitivity, said the Novorossiysk grain terminal - which has an export capacity of 8.5 million metric tons per year - had suspended operations and an assessment of the damage was underway. A ​spokesperson for Demetra Holding, which owns the terminal, only said that the terminal had sustained ​unspecified damage and declined to comment further.

NKHP, another large grain terminal at Novorossiysk with an export capacity of ‌7.1 ⁠million metric tons per year, was also damaged and had halted operations, three industry sources told Reuters. OZK, its principal owner, said in a statement that it had been damaged and that nobody had been hurt. It said it would provide further details when they became available.