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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Dnipropetrovsk grain warehouse was destroyed by the Russian missile, staff said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Shocking video of the grain attack in Synelnykove district, south-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region emerged earlier today.<\/p>\n
Zelensky said: ‘They targeted the warehouses of agricultural enterprises. The grain warehouse was destroyed.<\/p>\n
‘The warehouse with fertilizers was also shelled.’<\/p>\n
The president urged world leaders to prepare for a new food crisis prompted by Russia’s food blockade on Ukraine.<\/p>\n
He told 60 Minutes: ‘Russia does not let ships come in or go out, it is controlling the Black Sea.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTractors (left) and combine harvesters (right) worth \u00a34million in total were stolen – but locked.\u00a0The tractors were taken by Russian vehicles with the military ‘Z’ painted in white<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
‘Russia wants to completely block our country’s economy.<\/p>\n
‘Ukraine could lose tens of millions of tonnes of grain due to Russia’s blockade of its Black Sea ports.’<\/p>\n
Egypt and Tunisia import 80 per cent of their grain from Ukraine and Russia, while Lebanon purchases 60 per cent of its supplies from the two countries.<\/p>\n
Russian soldiers appear to be planning to extract more supplies from their own land with stolen Ukrainian equipment. But it has not all gone to plan.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNicknamed ‘the breadbasket of Europe’, Ukraine’s grain supplies are a crucial food source to central and western Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Pictured: a Ukraine grain shed in 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A fleet of 27 Ukrainian farm vehicles including combine harvesters and seeders were stolen from a tractor dealer in occupied Melitopol over a several week period.<\/p>\n
Their combined value totalled \u00a34million, with the harvesters going for \u00a3240,00 each.<\/p>\n
But after loading the vehicles onto trucks and carrying them 700 miles to Chechnya, the Russian army realised they couldn’t even use them.<\/p>\n
A source close to the dealer told\u00a0CNN: ‘When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely.’<\/p>\n
During his speech to the Irish parliament , Zelensky said Putin has targeted Ukraine’s food supply in an effort to starve its people.<\/p>\n
‘For them, hunger is a weapon against us ordinary people as an instrument of domination’, Zelensky added, in comments which may have been intended to reference Ireland’s struggle with starvation in the 1840s.<\/p>\n
‘They are blocking humanitarian access to the half-million people in Mariupol who can no longer melt snow for water’, he continued.<\/p>\n
He also told Italy’s Chamber of Deputies in March that exports of grain and food products will be disrupted as Russia\u2019s invasion continues.<\/p>\n
‘The worst will be hunger, which is nearing for many countries . . . we do not know what harvest we will have and whether we will be able to export it. Prices are already surging.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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