Russia deliberately targets Ukrainian agricultural infrastructure, affirms a report
Russia deliberately and methodically targets the agricultural infrastructure of Ukraine to, in the long term, replace it as a major world exporter of cereals, says the Dutch legal foundation Global Rights Compliance (RCMP).
Military operations “Are part of a systematic effort to dismantle the agricultural sector of Ukraine by occupation, the destruction of infrastructure and illegal extraction”says GRC, whose study will be “Soon transmitted” to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into Ukraine. “They form a scheme that extends, beyond ports, to energy, water and environmental systems, provoking humanitarian, environmental and global food security consequences. »»
The responsibility of the highest Russian civil and military authorities is obvious, in the eyes of the authors of the report. The level of coordination of the strikes required the downstream of the staff and, in some cases, a ” decision “ List from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, himself.
In July 2023, Moscow had slammed the door of the initiative of the Black Sea, under the aegis of the UN and Turkey, which allowed Ukraine to export its agricultural production by sea. Russia accused Westerners of not holding out by not raising certain sanctions. RCMP stresses that after this withdrawal multiplied “Attacks against cereals and related infrastructure located in the ports of the Black Sea and the Danube, previously used to export cereals”.
The Foundation believes in this regard that Russia ” seems “ having planned to replace Ukraine as “Main exporter of grains in the world”. Because if its main objective was military, “We would expect to see more evidence of attacks on military objectives surrounding these installations, which, according to an analysis of satellite images (…)was almost absent ”.
The organization reports damage or destruction inflicted on more than 10 hectares of storage surface, as well as “Essential machines” Production and export, believing that they will affect the reconstruction of Ukraine in the long term, its economic recovery, its environment and global food security.
Source: Lemonde