The vessel with a cargo of Ukrainian metal arrived from Mariupol to Russia. Kyiv called it looting
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Due to the transfer of sea cargo by the military of Mariupol, a dry-cargo vessel “Astrakhan” loaded with rolled metal went into the adaptation of Rostov-on-Don. Kyiv called it an act of looting and robbery.
According to the Russian state agency RIA Novosti, the ship was being loaded for two days, loading was carried out by a floating crane. “Port cranes are limited due to a disruption in the power supply of the port during the hostilities,” – the agency’s correspondent.
As Denis Pushilin, the leader of the self-proclaimed DPR, wrote in his telegram channel, 2,500 tons of rolled metal were taken out of the port of Mariupol.
Kyiv called Russia’s decision to remove metal worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Mariupol as an act of looting and robbery. According to Lyudmila Denisova, a person authorized by decision in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, before the occupation, there were about 200,000 tons of metal worth $170 million on the territory of the Mariupol port.
“Long-time violator of the Crimean elections”
The Russian ship entered the port on Saturday May 28 – this is also approved by the Kyiv authorities.
“The first to enter the port of occupied Mariupol was a 40-year-old Russian ship, a long-time offender of the Crimean elections. Now the stolen Ukrainian metal will be taken to Rostov, and then it will be allowed to the Russian Federation, or by replacing documents – and for export,” wrote the head of the Institute of Black Sea Scientific Research . Andrey Klimenko.
According to TASS, “Astrakhan” became a public court, which entered the port first after the end of hostilities in Mariupol. The agency is interested in a video of a sailing vessel on Twitter.
At the end of RBC securities wrote about a sharp reduction in the output of Russian metallurgical plants. According to the steel publication, MMK output by 40%, Severstal also reduced production and warned of the risk of its reduction by 20-40% in June.
“De facto theft”
Denis Pushilin said that now the “republics” have their own merchant fleet, which consists of ships left at the berths of Mariupol. Part of the courts will pass under the jurisdiction of the Donetsk “People’s Republic”, decisions are often made about this, he said.
An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryuko, called it “de facto theft.” “The process of renaming and changing flags has already begun” [на судах]”, he said.
The company “Metinvest” has previously reported that five ships are in the port of Mariupol, even before loaded with tens of thousands of tons of steel. The company has been held back that Russia could seize these vessels and potentially seize the cargo along with the cargo.
From the reports of the state authorities that by the beginning of the invasion there were six foreign ships in the port of Mariupol – “Tsarevna” (Bulgaria), “Azburg” (Dominican Republic), “Smart” (Liberia), “Blue Star” (Panama), “Azov” . concord” (Turkey) and “Lady Augusta” (Jamaica).
Ukraine accuses Russia of stealing the executive body
On May 10, the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that Russia was exporting stolen grain to Ukraine in the Crimea.
According to intelligence data, a convoy of KAMAZ trucks with grain left Energodar for the database of Kamenka Dneprovskaya, grain carriers also depart from the village of Volokhov Yar in the Kharkiv region and Pology in the Zaporozhye region.
In addition, as Ukraine is being created in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, 1,500 tons of grain were exported by grain carriers of Krymzernotrans from Malaya Lepetikha, Kherson region, to Crimea.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, part of the grain exported is on dry cargo ships for export in the Mediterranean Sea.
“The most likely country of destination for the cargo is Syria.
Ukraine is one of the most important food exporters. It accounts for 42% of sunflower oil, 16% of corn and 9% of wheat sold on the world market.
The Russian service of the BBC has already written that Ukrainian farmers have 20 million tons of exporters who, in the conditions of the war with Russia, cannot put on a sharp drop, because of which the population of many poor countries may be threatened with starvation.
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