Russia stole about 400,000 tons of grain in Ukraine – Rada
About this stated in the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development.
These are the territories of Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In addition, Russian troops use their missile and bomb strikes to remove elevators, warehouses, agricultural machinery and infrastructure in other areas, thus disrupting the sowing campaign.
The Committee notes that the blockade of Ukrainian ports and the mining of sea routes make it impossible to export Ukrainian agricultural products from past harvests. Currently, 25 million tons of grain are blocked in the port of Odessa alone, and in general, Ukraine cannot export 90 million tons of grain due to the blockade of ports by Russia, and loses $ 170 million every day.
The United Nations has previously stressed that such actions by the occupiers threaten international food security and could provoke the greatest food crisis in human history. More than 400 million people now need urgent care, and food prices have reached record highs.
Sale of stolen goods
CNN previously reported that Russia is trying to sell grain stolen in Ukraine. Thus, in the port of the Syrian city of Latakia, they noticed a Russian cargo ship with grain, which the occupiers stole in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Almost 30,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat are transported on board. It is one of three ships transporting stolen grain in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has given the consumer country which consignments of grain provided by Russia can do so stolen from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, obtained as a result of looting.