Nearly 4.5 million tons of grain were blocked in Ukrainian ports due to the Russian invasion. This was stated by Martin Frick, an official of the United Nations World Food Program. “Hunger should not become a weapon,” Frick said, calling for the resumption of Ukrainian food supplies to other nations to alleviate the global food crisis.
Before the war, Ukraine was one of the largest wheat exporters and corn producers in the world, and many countries rely on grain supplies from Kiev. In March, the UN recorded a record rise in food prices that hadn’t occurred since 1990
In addition, according to CNN, reports of thefts of agricultural equipment and grain have multiplied in recent weeks. The Russian army, said the American TV broadcaster, allegedly stole the equipment of an agricultural machinery dealer in the occupied city of Melitopol to send them to Chechnya. But the equipment would not be usable because it was blocked through a remote control.
The equipment was stolen from the Melitopol-based Agrotek dealership, valued at five million dollars. In all, 27 agricultural machines were taken away, some of them to Chechnya. But the fact that the machines were equipped with GPS made it possible to follow their path and the combines were blocked from a distance.
The thefts of recent days in Melitopol have also affected the grain kept in silos to take it “to the Crimea”. Furthermore, the Russians would have tried to expropriate agricultural products in the Cherson region as well. A statement from the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Region was published on the institutional website and subsequently deleted. Krasnoyarsk deputies, worried about the consequences of foreign sanctions, voted for a resolution to expropriate the “surpluses” of Ukrainian farmers to support the needs of Russian citizens.
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