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Losses due to appropriation of Ukrainian grain by russia amount to over UAH 30 billion, but this figure is not

Losses due to appropriation of Ukrainian grain by russia amount to over UAH 30 billion, but this figure is not final - PGO

As of today, the losses that Ukraine has suffered as a result of russia's appropriation of grain, tentatively amount to more than UAH 30 billion, stated the head of the Department of Combating Crimes Committed in the Conditions of Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General's Office, Yurii Belousov, at the conference "United for Justice. Responsibility for attacks on civilian objects".

"Given the scale of such crimes, it is clearly at least a crime against humanity, in a broader perspective - one of the elements of genocide, which is related to the creation of conditions for the physical destruction of a nation. It is about depriving a nation of the conditions for survival, because we know what potential has grain," Belousov emphasized.

He noted that, in fact, russia is blackmailing the world community with the real possibility of starvation for other countries. As a result of the attacks on the grain and port infrastructure, a number of countries in Africa and Asia, which received Ukrainian grain, were at risk of existence. Because Ukraine was considered and is one of the key suppliers of the World Food Program.

"We singled out two periods of russia's attacks on agro-industrial infrastructure, which are linked to the "grain agreement". Before its signing, shelling was carried out from artillery systems in the front-line zones: the most affected objects were in the Mykolaiv (59) and Kherson (78) Regions. After Ukraine refused the threatening conditions of the aggressor country, the scale of the attacks began to expand. First of all, Odesa and the Odesa Region, which has the most powerful and developed infrastructure, became the target," Belousov said.

According to him, since then, russia began to use a wide range of completely different methods of destruction. These are Shaheds, Iskanders, tactical aviation missiles, and sea and land-based missiles.

"This only indicates that this is a well-coordinated policy of russia. Completely different types of troops are involved in such attacks. And decisions to carry out attacks simultaneously are made by the highest military-political leadership of the russian federation," he emphasized.

As Belousov noted, russia is trying to deprive Ukrainians of their livelihood. They try to steal the grain, and if they fail, destroy it.