Taras Vysotskyi spoke about options for resuming domestic grain exports through Ukrainian seaports

Ukraine

Published Jun 1, 2022

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Recently, pictures of the American aerospace company Maxar Technologies were published, which show how Ukrainian grain is loaded on two Russian ships. According to the vessel tracking site MarineTraffic.com, both vessels have left the port: the first goes to the Aegean Sea in Beirut (Lebanon), and the second is still in the Black Sea.

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First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotsky told ICTV what information comes from the occupied territories and in which countries Russia has already tried to sell the looted Ukrainian grain. "The source of information on the facts of transshipment and movement of stolen grain from Ukraine are primarily satellite images. However, according to information from the regions, in particular from the elevators located in the temporarily occupied territories, it has already been recorded that about half a million tons of grain were stolen. This is happening in all temporarily occupied regions - Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk, Donetsk. Grain is sent either to the territory of Russia, primarily from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk regions, or to the territory of Crimea from Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, "Taras Vysotsky said. According to him, Ukraine's international partners have already said that there was an attempt to sell this grain in Egypt and Lebanon, but ...

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