Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 1 – Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian ships on the Black Sea have forced Moscow to reroute its exports of grain eastward to the Caspian and northward to the Baltic and Arctic seas, an exercise that has highlighted serious bottlenecks in both places that are restricting the export of Russian grain.
Not only has the redirection of grain shipments overloaded Russian railroads and the capacity of the Volga-Don canal to carry cargo in these new directions, but it has highlighted the fact that most of the ports Moscow wants to use as alternatives lack the onloading equipment needed to function (istories.media/news/2026/11/01/rossiya-perevozit-zerno-cherez-arktiku-i-kaspiiskoe-more-iz-za-obstrelov-v-chernom-more/).
As a result, Russian shipping companies say, these routes will not be able to compensate for much of the export volume lost with the closure of the Black Sea routes, where shipping has declined and the costs of using what remains have risen dramatically, another example of the ways in which Ukraine has achieved more against Russia than many think.
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