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On 3 July 2026, Russia struck the Chornobaivska poultry farm in Kherson region with guided aerial bombs (KABs), touching off a large fire and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. The strike was carried out on the plant in Chornobayvka, Kherson region, and after the attack a large-scale fire broke out, destroying a significant part of the production complex
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BREAKING NEWS: Russia destroyed the largest poultry farm in Europe, – social networks – Ukraine Today .orghttps://ukrainetoday.org/breaking-news-russia-destroyed-the-largest-poultry-farm-in-europe-social-networks/This is the same Chornobaivska complex Russia already gutted in 2022, when roughly 4.7 million birds perished after occupiers cut power and blockaded the farm, then looted equipment and vehicles. After Kherson was liberated, Ukrlandfarming resumed production at the facility — and now it's been hit again.
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Ukraine's harvest down — APK-Inform revised its 2026 grain forecast to about 58.2 million tonnes, down from 61.1 million harvested in 2025. Production fell from a record 106 million tonnes in 2021 to roughly 77 million by 2024 — below even prior war-year levels on the grain-plus-oilseed basis.
Russian forces are using drones to drop incendiary munitions from all sides of a field to maximise destruction; in Kherson Oblast alone around 2,000 hectares had already burned by early July. (Ukrainska Pravda) The stated goal is to burn the harvest and turn fertile land into scorched earth.
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The Middle East war drove up global natural gas prices — the feedstock for all synthetic nitrogen fertilizer — while Russian strikes cut Ukraine's domestic ammonium nitrate output in half. Closure of the Strait of Hormuz also cut off exports to Gulf buyers who take around 5 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain a year. Ukraine's farm association warned this could mean a 15–20% drop in grain and oilseed yields unless the government intervened.