Posted on 04/28/2022 8:25:09 AM PDT by dennisw
After weeks of claims about Russia deliberately sabotaging Ukraine’s food production and export infrastructure, the Ukrainian state has published images claiming to be just such an attack on food and energy equipment in the embattled east of the nation.
Images showing a burnt-out grain elevator and a shell-pocked steel warehouse were published by Kyiv state media Ukrinform on Wednesday, along with claims Russian forces had shelled both “a large grain elevator” and a power plant in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which borders Russian-occupied zones. A grain elevator is a key component of a silo, which carries the produce from ground level upwards for dry storage.
The report cited the head of the region’s council, Mykola Lukashuk, who sardonically noted — in satire of Russia’s stated war objectives — that the attack had successfully “denazified” the silo. More seriously, the politician continued: “They are shelling production facilities, on which not only Ukraine’s food security but the global food security depends”, adding that the attacks on civilian infrastructure were intended to cause terror.
According to oft-repeated claims about the progress of Russia’s war against Ukraine, strikes against food production facilities like grain silos are neither unusual, nor accidental. Indeed, it is asserted the strikes are part of a deliberate programme of engineering a food crisis by systematically attacking agricultural infrastructure in one of the world’s largest grain-producing nations.
Ireland’s Prime Minister is one who has asserted the deliberate nature of the attacks, saying last week: “The largest grain silos in the Ukraine have all been levelled so there is a very clear strategic objective there to create a food crisis… They are very clear there is a deliberate strategy on behalf of Putin to literally bomb people out of Ukraine, to create so much terror that people will flee.”
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European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has made similar claims, stating in early April: “They are bombing Ukrainian cities and provoking hunger in the world… They are provoking hunger in the world by blocking the exports of wheat and by destroying the storage of wheat in Ukraine.”
According to a UK Ministry of Defence report, grain production is expected to be down a fifth in Ukraine this year, but even if farmers are able to sow and reap their crop in war conditions, once stored in silos they are liable to be bombed by Russia. Exporting the crop is then challenged by Russia blockading Ukraine’s Black Sea ports: grain is a bulk cargo and potentially hundreds of long-distance truck journeys could be required to replace a single ship.
Underlining the importance of keeping Ukraine’s food flowing, the report stated: “Ukraine is the fourth largest producer and exporter of agricultural goods in the world… Reduced grain supply from Ukraine will generate inflationary pressures, elevating the global price of grain.
“High grain prices could have significant implications for global food markets and threaten global food security, particularly in some of the least economically developed countries.”
The United Nations has claimed a global shortage of food that could be triggered by the collapse of agriculture or exports from Ukraine — long known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’ for its prodigious agricultural output — would see starvation in third-world countries trigger a “hell on earth” migrant crisis.
Russia is going to essentially shell every square foot of the Ukraine. Gain silos are just another target to be rubblized.
Is Russia destroying America’s food processing plants as well?...
Well there is definitely something going on regarding food availability and on a global scale.
But as with inflation and Trump’s election, I doubt it’s all Russia’s fault.
Holodomor 2
Unlikely Putin is that powerful.
Well at least you stopped pushing the absurd lie that Putin was do this to liberate and help the Russian speaking people.
Putin is somehow the most devious, evil person ever, and dying and incompetent at the same time.
Neocons are geniuses...
Keep in mind just who is running this war - two villains of immense evil.
They’re totalitarian groups of people who demand control of the whole world on both sides, fighting over who is going to head up the one-world government.
You can be sure of two things. The United States and Ukraine will both be worse off forever. The whole world will be suffering soon enough, because this is just the very beginning of a very long protracted conflict.
It is the stated goal of the WEF and UN Agenda 2030, but let’s blame Russia because shut up.
I really don’t care. They can end this. I am worried about our supply.
It isn’t Putin stopping trains in America from delivering fertilizer that we still do have to the midwest.
Ukraine hardly feeds the world; this is done because most Americans, and most people around the world, don’t GAF about Ukraine. Nothing personal, but Ukraine doesn’t GAF about the rest of the world, either.
The engineering of a global food crisis goes far far beyond Russia and the alleged targeting of Ukrainian grain silos, etc. Beginning to think those who really are engineering such are out paying mofos to write sh*t like this to cover their arses (misdirection).......
The lunatic green assault on fossil fuel production has “engineered” the coming catastrophic food crisis. Natural gas, the core ingredient of fertilizer, is now scarce and expensive. diesel fuel, essential to farming worldwide, is also very expensive. Farmers around the world simply cannot produce food. If there is bad weather in India or china, there will be unsolvable famines, starvation and bloody hunger wars.
the arrogant, elite green lunatics in the west are primarily respobsible for this disaster. However they themselves won’t starve and won’t be held accountable.
I know I don’t care.
How many other wars/incursions/battles/fights are going on in Africa and South/Central America?
Asia?
Are we going to fight every battle on Earth?
Meanwhile our country is turning into Balkanized dump.
That is exactly what they are doing. They always need a bad guy and Putin is their go to bad guy to blame and cover for what they, themselves, are doing.
It is the WEF western reset scum that are engineering all of this so they have global domination and can enslave or kill people.
Right; we lose our control/eliminate our border while raging against one unrelated country half a world away for violating the border of another even less-related country half a world away.
The West stood by and watched as millions died in the Congo wars; I guess they didn’t pay protection money to the Biden family.
Since they’ve given us a few excuses its now a multiple choice question. The coming food crisis will be cause by
A) Russia
B) Covid
C) Supply Chain Anomalies
D) Global Climate Change
E) Russia
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