Ukraine claims Russia preparing to ship stolen grain to China while USDA report says China is main beneficiary of Black Sea grain deal

Russia was planning to export grain it had stolen from Ukraine to China, according to claims by Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) reported by World Grain. According to the NRC’s claims, Russia was using software tools that automated the process of collecting and analysing information on agricultural products, which could then be exported outside the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). “The introduction of these programmes will allow it to expand the geography of looted exports, in particular to China,” the NRC was quoted as saying in the 10 July report. The NRC alleged on 8 July that Russia was actively exporting stolen grain from Ukraine’s occupied territories to Syria and Turkey claiming it was from its own harvest, World Grain wrote. In June, the Group of Seven (G7) nations, which represents the world’s most economically advanced democracies, proposed tackling suspected theft of Ukraine’s grain using chemical identification of grain origin, the report said. The ...