{"id":39614,"date":"2022-06-09T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=39614"},"modified":"2022-06-09T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:49:52","slug":"the-eu-knows-for-sure-that-russia-is-plundering-ukraines-grain-reserves-the-bloc-urges-not-to-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=39614","title":{"rendered":"The EU knows for sure that Russia is plundering Ukraine&#8217;s grain reserves.\u00a0The bloc urges not to buy it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Union is convinced that Russia is not only destroying Ukrainian fields and reserves, but also looting them.\u00a0This was stated at a briefing on Thursday, the speaker of the EC foreign policy service Peter Stano, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 9 , June , 2022 | Political News<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We know for sure that Russia is not only destroying fields, destroying reserves, but also looting stocks of Ukrainian wheat and grain.&nbsp;We know that they are trying to either import them to Russia or export them to other countries, &#8220;Stano said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He reminded that there had been cases in the past, quite public, when Moscow tried to export the looted grain to Egypt, but Egypt refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And we, of course, as the European Union, call on all our partners to make sure that everything they buy &#8211; they know where it comes from, they do not take anything that was looted by Russians from Ukrainian territory.&nbsp;And we, the European Union, are also trying to do everything possible to prevent this from happening, &#8220;the diplomat stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Addition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, is blocking grain exports from Ukraine&#8217;s seaports.&nbsp;The aggressor state demands the lifting of some sanctions in exchange for &#8220;unblocking&#8221; exports by sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Ukrainian authorities, it is about 22 million tons of grain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western officials have accused Moscow of using the threat of famine as a weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is convinced that Russia is not only destroying Ukrainian fields and reserves, but also looting them.\u00a0This was stated at a briefing on Thursday, the speaker of the EC foreign policy service Peter Stano, KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 9 , June , 2022 | Political News\u00a0.\u00a0 Quote &#8220;We know for sure that Russia is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750,16],"tags":[377,813,1064],"class_list":["post-39614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","category-ukraine-news","tag-eu","tag-russia","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39624,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39614\/revisions\/39624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}