Suspects.

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PEOPLE what did I tell you!

Seems my intuition was 100 % correct. USA State Department cable seems to suggest it is so!

"Ukraine's Third Largest Exporting Terminal Destroyed By Russian Military"

See item # 2 my previous blog entry EGTC. Also see another previous blog entry Brigands item # 1. 

"U.S. Warns Russia Trying to Sell Stolen Grain from Ukraine"

From the Internet web site "Covert Shores". Courtesy H.I. Sutton.

"The U.S. has warned the Kremlin is trying to profit by selling stolen wheat from Ukraine to drought-stricken countries in Africa. The New York Times reports in mid-May, the U.S. sent an alert to 14 countries, mostly in Africa, that Russian cargo vessels were leaving ports near Ukraine laden with what a State Department cable described as 'stolen Ukrainian grain.'”

"The cable identified, by name, three Russian cargo vessels it said were suspected of transporting it. The American alert about the grain has only sharpened the dilemma for African countries, many already feeling trapped between East and West, as they potentially face a hard choice between benefiting from possible war crimes and displeasing a powerful Western ally, and on the other, refusing cheap food at a time when wheat prices are soaring, and people are starving."

AFRICAN NATIONS DESPERATE FOR A MUCH-N EEDED INFLUX OF GRAIN POSSIBLY AT A PRICE LOWER THAN THE CURRENT MARKET VALUE WILLING TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL? THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE HERE?

Thanks also to the sharp-eyed OSINT efforts of H.I. Sutton.

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Brigands.

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More thievery the Ukraine Conflict. Massive amounts of grain allegedly seized by the Russians.

Ramifications of war on the international scale quite often unexpected causing problems for which amelioration is next to nothing. Disruptions occurring now critical grain exports to the world gone presumably for some time to come and beyond grain now.

COSTS AND DWINDLING SUPPLIES BOTH!

1. "Ukraine Accuses Russian Forces Of Stealing 'Hundreds Of Thousands' Of Tons Of Grain"

From RFE/RL and thanks to same.

"Analysts foresee Ukraine's grain output declining by more than half year-on-year in 2022."

"Russian invading forces have stolen 'several hundred thousand tons' of grain in territory they hold, Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister said on April 30."

“'Today, there are confirmed facts that several hundred thousand tons of grain in total were taken out of the Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions,' Taras Vysotskiy told Ukrainian TV.

[....]

"Ukraine is one of the world’s major grain producers and the Russian invasion has curtailed exports, pushing up world grain prices and raising concerns about severe grain shortages in importing countries."

UKRAINIAN GRAIN EXPORTS IN THE SHORTFALL AND MORE THAN LIKELY IN THE LONG TERM GOING TO BE NEXT TO NIL. 

In certain countries [such as Egypt] expect upheaval of a nature that leads to extreme societal instability other nations following suit much to the detriment of worldwide community. 

Read additionally:

2. "Sunflower Oil Is in Short Supply as War Continues in Ukraine"

5/4/2022, 5:05:50 PM · by nickcarraway · 13 replies

Thanks to Freeper the original story as seen at Food & Wine ^ | May 02, 2022 | Jelisa Castrodale.

"Ukraine typically exports about half of the world's sunflower oil supply. The war in Ukraine has entered its third month, and the global supply chain has increasingly been affected by Russia's invasion of its eastern European neighbor. One of the more measurable consequences is both the increasing costs and dwindling supplies of sunflower oil"

Sunflower oil! Even that! Going to be a mad scramble [already is a mad scramble?] for all sorts of agricultural products and hoarding.

Indeed, the sunflower can be seen and is being used as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion.

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