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The Wall Street Journal released a video of what it said was a secret network that Russia has been using to steal grain production from Ukraine since last February.
Satellite imagery in late May shows a column of trucks unloading their cargo of stolen Ukrainian grain onto a Russian ship, moored in the port of Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.
The newspaper added that in the same month, the US State Department sent a telegram to several countries, stating that 3 Russian ships were suspected of transporting stolen Ukrainian grain.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a high-ranking European diplomatic source who had seen the cable, as saying that Russian officials denied the accusations.
The newspaper has learned that the three ships are part of a route to smuggle stolen grain from newly captured lands in Ukraine, through the Crimea, to countries allied with Russia in the Middle East.
The newspaper points out that Russia is doing this after obstructing Ukraine’s grain exports, which in normal circumstances amount to about 70 million tons annually, and which represent a large part of the supplies that the world needs, especially developing countries.
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