Russia increases its grain exports at the expense of stolen Ukrainian agricultural products
6.08.2025 - 16:42
Ukraine estimates the amount of grain stolen by Moscow since 2022 at 15 million tons. It is mixed with Russian and exported.
This is reported by Reuters.
Ukrainian authorities say that all grain produced in four regions and Crimea, which Russia occupied in 2014, was stolen by Russia, and plan to appeal to its Western allies with a request to impose sanctions against importers of this grain.
Kyiv says that its intelligence services have discovered that Ukrainian wheat is mixed with Russian in Black Sea ports and sent for export.
“Taking into account this season, we estimate that since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has stolen 15 million tons of Ukrainian grain,” Ukraine’s Deputy Economy Minister Taras Vysotsky told Reuters.
Ukraine has already called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Bangladesh over its purchases of wheat that came from the Russian-occupied regions, but the EU has not done so.
USM previously reported that another vessel was being prepared in occupied Sevastopol to steal grain.
