THE Government of Ukraine blames her Russia how removed 400,000 tonnes of grain from areas of the country occupied by its armed forces since 24 February.
It’s wholesale one third of grain stocks in Hersonissosin Zaporizhiain the Danietsk and to Lugansksummed up Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyspeaking on Ukrainian state television last night.
Before the conflict broke out, these areas were stored 1.3 million tonnes of cereals for daily supply and for sowing. “There were no strategic stocks,” the minister said, warning that if available quantities were further reduced, there was famine risk.
The accusation of Kiev is shaking painful memories and old war.
According to Ukrainian sources, about 4 million people starved in Ukraine in 1932-1933, when the then leader of the Soviet Union (“dictator” for the Ukrainians), Joseph Stalinimposed collectivization of farmers and ordered the confiscation of grain.
However, starvation deaths were also recorded in southern Russia and to Kazakhstan the same period.
For Ukraine, it was a “genocide” ordered by Moscow, which it calls Golodomor, “The Great Famine”.
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