Russians burn Ukrainian grain crops with devastating cluster bombs

08:02, 13 July 2022

Source: Columbus Post

Russians use special cluster bombs to destroy Ukrainian grain fields. Now is harvest time, and the wheat is as dry as tinder. A granary of the world is on fire. Millions of tons of grain will soon disappear from the world market.

Are they destroying what the Russians can’t steal? The information is not subject to independent verification. Mid-July is wheat harvest time in Ukraine, but entire fields in the southeastern part of the country are currently on fire. Grain destined for the world is being destroyed, raising fears of a global hunger crisis.

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter, “Russian troops set fire to grain fields in Ukraine’s fertile Zaporizhia region.

“Remind yourself of this picture every time the Russians say they care about world food security,” Nikolenko said. “Millions of people around the world will starve as Russia launches a brutal war against Ukraine.”

Nikolenko took a photo of a large grain field burning in the southeast of the country Facebook site Ukrainian journalist and politician Ihor Lutsenko regularly publishes aerial photographs of war zones and battle scenes.

Lutsenko writes: “The Russians are burning our bread.” To do this, the invaders will use special cluster bombs: “A special projectile flies into the air,” says Lutsenko. The projectile makes a “distinctive sound, as if flapping its metal wings before exploding in mid-air, slowly descending and releasing several flaming fragments.”

Then the projectiles set the field on fire. After weeks of hot weather, the wheat is dry. The fire spread up to five meters in height and spread hundreds of meters. Black smoke billows several kilometers into the sky.”

Many photos of burning fields can be seen on Ukrainian social media channels. Villages and settlements are often bombed – and fires from the blasts spread to the fields. Mykola Lukasuk, head of the regional council of Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth largest city, describes it. telegram. If the fire spreads, dozens of acres of wheat can be destroyed at once.

According to the United Nations, about 25 million tons of grain are stuck in Ukrainian silos and ports. Asia and Africa’s nutrition is at risk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (44) talks about at least half a million tons of grain stolen by Russia from occupied Ukrainian territories.

The American space agency NASA estimates that Russia now controls almost a quarter of Ukraine’s arable land, based on an assessment of satellite images. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest producers of grain and cooking oil. Produces almost half of the sunflower oil sold worldwide. Before the war, the country was the fifth largest exporter of wheat.

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