Russia has exported nearly 15 million tons of Ukrainian grain from the occupied territories.

From 2022 to 2025, almost 15 million tons of Ukrainian grain, valued at 6.8 billion US dollars, was illegally transported out of the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine. This is reported by AgroReview. Volumes of grain removal from occupied territories During this period, Russia consistently increased the scale of the removal of the Ukrainian harvest: in 2022, 2.5 million tons of grain were stolen, in 2023 – 5.7 million tons, in 2024 – 4.8 million tons, and in 2025 – another 2 million tons. In the current year, the first batch of illegally transported grain was sent from Mariupol in mid-January and amounted to 5 thousand tons. Routes and scale of the theft of Ukrainian grain The stolen grain is exported by Russia using the so-called "shadow fleet" and through partner countries that help bypass international sanctions. Throughout the second half of 2025, the main importers of Ukrainian grain became Egypt, Bangladesh, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and other countries. A ...