This is almost a third of all stocks left in those regions.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russian military has taken out of the temporary occupied territories of Ukraine up to 400 thousand tons of grain crops, which is almost a third of the stocks left there. This was announced by First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky on Espresso TV channel.
According to him, the grain stolen by the occupiers was intended for the daily needs of the inhabitants of these regions.
About 1.3 million tons of grain were left in the territory, which is primarily needed to ensure daily food security, ie food for Ukrainians living there and the necessary spring field work on spring crops. There were no strategic reserves. ” , – Vysotsky emphasized.
He noted that the Ministry of Agrarian Policy has confirmed the facts of Russian exports of grain stocks from Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Approximately 80-100 thousand tons were stolen from each.
The Deputy Minister added that such actions by the Russian military could lead to food shortages and, consequently, to the threat of famine for the inhabitants of these four regions.
< p>“Such behavior is alarming. The situation may be similar with the new harvest. And then there may simply be a physical shortage of food for Ukrainians in these areas… If this continues and will be exported not stocks, but what was left there to feed before new harvest, there may be a threat of famine, “said Taras Vysotsky.
Earlier, Russian troops fired on agricultural enterprises in the Synelnykiv district Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of which two granaries were destroyed.
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