Ukraine Grain Tycoon, Oleksiy Vadatursky Killed In Latest Attack By Russia

Ukraine Grain Tycoon, Oleksiy Vadatursky Killed In Latest Attack By Russia

Heavy Russian strikes hit the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv overnight and early on Sunday, killing the owner of one of the country’s largest grain producing and exporting companies, the local governor said.

Oleksiy Vadatursky, founder and owner of agriculture company Nibulon and his wife, were killed in their home, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.

Headquartered in Mykolaiv, a strategically important city that borders the mostly Russia-occupied Kherson region, Nibulon specialises in the production and export of wheat, barley and corn, and it has its own fleet and shipyard.

President Volodymyr Zelensky described Mr Vadatursky’s death as “a great loss for all of Ukraine,” saying the businessman had been in the process of building a modern grain market involving a network of transhipment terminals and elevators.

Three people were also wounded in the attacks on Mykolaiv, the city’s Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych told Ukrainian television, adding 12 missiles had hit homes and educational facilities.

He earlier described the strikes as “probably the most powerful” on the city of the entire five-month-old war.