After missile strike on Odesa Region on Saturday, tanks with sunflowerseed oil were burning at Allseeds terminal

As a result of the morning shelling on Saturday, the Allseeds oil transshipment terminal was damaged, which led to the loss of thousands of tons of sunflowerseed oil.

This is stated in the publication of the Latifundist publication, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The report said that this information appeared on the Allseeds company's Facebook page, but this post was later deleted.

It was noted that according to preliminary information, the strike caused large-scale fires on the territory of the enterprise, destroying oil stocks and damaging infrastructure.

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Emergency services were working at the scene.

At least one person was reported killed and two injured.

The final extent of the damage is currently being clarified.

"Ukraine's largest vegetable oil terminal Allseeds Black Sea was shelled early Saturday," Allseeds' trading director Cornelis Vrins told AFP in the port of Pivdenny, adding that one employee was killed and two were injured.

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Later, in a comment to the Swiss media outlet ATS, Cornelis Vrins said that "our facilities in the port of Pivdenny were shelled last week, last night and this morning."

According to him, the company is not insured against such risks.

"Insurance companies avoid covering such threats. At the same time, this is the eighth shelling since the beginning of the war," Vrins stressed.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksii Kuleba reported that the enemy attacked the port of Pivdenny and that tanks were hit.

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