Due to attacks on grain and port infrastructure, countries in Africa and Asia that receive Ukrainian grain are under threat.
The damage from the misuse of Ukrainian grain by Russia exceeds 30 billion hryvnias, but this amount is not final, said Yuri Belousov, head of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General’s Office .
Russia is actually blackmailing the world community, creating a real threat of famine for other countries, the Office of the Prosecutor General quoted Belousov on Telegram.
According to him, due to attacks on grain and port infrastructure, countries in Africa and Asia that receive Ukrainian grain are under threat, as Ukraine remains one of the main suppliers within the World Food Program.
The Prosecutor General’s Office identified two periods of Russian attacks on agro-industrial infrastructure related to the grain deal. Before it was signed, shelling was carried out from the artillery systems in the front-line zones.
“After Ukraine left the threatening conditions of the aggressor country, the scale of the attacks began to expand. First of all, the target was Odessa and the Odessa region, which has the most powerful and developed infrastructure,” added by Belousov.
Russia began to use various weapons, in particular shaheds, Iskanders, tactical aircraft missiles, as well as sea and land-based missiles.
Yuri Belousov emphasized that Russia wants to deprive Ukrainians of their livelihoods by trying to steal grain, and if it fails, destroy it.
He also added that now the losses from the misuse of grain are tentatively estimated at more than 30 billion hryvnias.
Let’s remember that Russia sells grain from the occupied territories for $6 billion. The Russian Federation sent the first batches of harvest selected from the occupied territory to the foreign market in the summer of 2022. Subsequently, the mass export of grain was established. In this regard, Russia, in particular, paid Iran for the supply of missiles, writes The Moscow Times, citing an investigation by The Wall Street Journal.
Source: korrespondent
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