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Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have taken vast stores of grain from Ukraine and exported them to Russia, exacerbating the risk of shortages and hunger in areas under Russian control.
Farmers in Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian forces reported that the Russians were “stealing their grain en masse,” according to a statement released over the weekend by Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said on Ukrainian television last week that he had heard a surge of accounts from industry representatives about Russians seizing grain in recent weeks in occupied areas.
One of the world’s largest grain exporters, Ukraine has seen its grain industry hobbled by Russian attacks and blockades of seaports that Ukraine relied on to transport food products to countries around the world. Countries in the Middle East and South Asia rely heavily on Ukrainian grain, and the U.N. World Food Program has warned that the war could exacerbate global hunger.
