Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russian military has removed up to 400 thousand tons of grain crops from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, which is about a third of the stocks left there.. This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotsky on the Espresso TV channel..

According to him, the grain stolen by the invaders was intended for the daily needs of the inhabitants of these regions..

" Which, first of all, are needed to ensure daily food security, that is, to feed the Ukrainians living there, and to carry out the necessary spring field work for sowing spring crops. There were no strategic reserves there,"

He noted that the Ministry of Agrarian Policy has confirmation of the facts of the export of grain stocks by Russians from Zaporozhye, Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk regions.. From each, the invaders stole approximately 80-100 thousand tons.

The Deputy Minister added that such actions by the Russian military could lead to food shortages and, accordingly, the threat of starvation for the inhabitants of these four regions..

" After all, there may be a similar situation with the new crop.. And then there may simply be a physical shortage of food to feed Ukrainians in these territories... If this continues and not stocks are taken out, but what was left there to feed until the new harvest, there may be a threat of starvation,"

Earlier, Russian invaders launched a missile attack on a pig farm and grain warehouses in the Dnepropetrovsk region..

Before that, Russian troops fired on agricultural enterprises in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of which two granaries were destroyed.