Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin dictator, planned the famine in Ukraine in advance, for which he may face a new war crime case.
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Data from Global Rights Compliance suggests that Russia was actively preparing to steal grain reserves and starve the Ukrainian population in the months leading up to the full-scale invasion, even beginning to purchase transport for this purpose as early as 2021.
The organization’s report states that when Russian tanks crossed the border on February 24, 2022, they deliberately targeted grain-rich areas and food production infrastructure first.
Starving civilians in Ukraine is one of the prohibited methods of warfare, The Independent recalls.
The international lawyers’ organization Global Rights Compliance found that the Russians began purchasing grain trucks and three new bulk carriers as early as December 2021. This indicates premature plans to steal Ukrainian food resources “on an unprecedented scale.”
International investigators are collecting evidence for the ISS of Russian attempts to cause famine in Ukraine during the war.
This evidence will allow the International Criminal Court to launch the first prosecution of its kind, and subsequently indict Putin.
In September 2023, one of the lawyers, Yusuf Khan, said that the weaponization of food occurred in three stages.
The first phase is the siege of Ukrainian cities, cutting off food supplies, blocking humanitarian aid corridors.
This included the death of 20 civilians in Chernigov on March 16 last year as a result of an attack near a supermarket. Human rights activists are also focused on the siege of Mariupol.
The second stage is the destruction of food and water supplies, as well as energy infrastructure.
Cities like Nikolaev in the south were left without drinking water at the beginning of the invasion, because the invaders seized the pumping station.
The third element is Russia’s attempts to prevent and limit Ukrainian food exports.
Source: Racurs
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