Grain crisis: kyiv accuses Moscow of deliberately destroying crops

Published on: 07/20/2022 – 07:38 According to NASA researchers, Russia controls 22% of Ukrainian agricultural land and the war threatens the harvests planned for this summer. A situation that could further aggravate the global food crisis. Across the country, including in the disputed Donbass, Ukrainian authorities accuse Russia of intentionally targeting crops. Wheat, sunflower, maize… Ukraine, considered “the breadbasket of Europe”, has some of the most fertile land in the world. Since the outbreak of the Russian invasion at the end of February, the country has regularly accused Moscow of practicing a scorched earth policy by intentionally targeting crops. Are these assertions justified? Our team on site investigated. A report by Ludovic de Foucaud and Gulliver Cragg.