“1,069,766 tons have been harvested, the yield is 29 centners per hectare,” TASS reports.

At the moment, 90% of grain crops have been harvested, and preparations for the next sowing campaign begin in parallel.

On July 31, the Ukrainian army attacked a river terminal in the Zaporozhye region, damaging grain storage silos.

According to the head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the Ukrainian military and militants, using helicopters and artillery, purposefully set fire to fields with grain crops in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.