Russia persistently bombs Ukrainian ports, silos, and crops

Despite Turkey’s efforts to construct an UN-backed plan to facilitate grain exports from Ukraine’s ports using humanitarian corridors, Russia continues to attack ports, silos, machinery, and crops. The information comes from international organizations and is based on indictments by Ukrainian officials.

On June 7, for example, a Russian bombing destroyed the warehouses of one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural commodity terminals in the port of Mykolaiv on the Black Sea shore, according to Thomsons Reuters.

The local government said the bombed site was a grain terminal. The local media also reported that the bombing hit a warehouse where sunflower meal was stored. Ukraine, the world’s fourth-largest grain exporter, operates dozens of exporter terminals throughout its shore, where Russia persistently bombs cities.

Currently, a Russian blockade is preventing Ukraine from using the sea for exports.

War in Ukraine

Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, one of the sectors that have suffered the most has been agriculture.

No surprise, the country in Eastern Europe is one of the world’s key breadbasket and generates over half of the world’s sunflower oil.

According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Ukraine accounts for 15% of the world trade in corn and 10% in wheat. However, the conflict froze such exports.

Experts warn that the conflict is fueling a global food crisis.

Warnings

The New York Times has recently published a story in which the United States government accuses Russia of trying to sell wheat stolen from Ukraine on the international market.

According to the report, the United States had already sent a warning to 14 countries, mainly in Africa, by mid-May, calling attention to Russian carriers leaving ports in Ukraine filled with “stolen Ukrainian grain.”

The warning issued by Washington corroborates allegations made by the Ukrainian government that Russia has stolen up to 500,000 tonnes of wheat, worth $100 million, since the Russian invasion in February.

Russia and Ukraine typically supply about 40% of the wheat consumed in Africa, where grain prices rose 23% last year, according to the United Nations.

Source: Canal Rural

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