Large queue of trucks carrying harvest stolen from Ukraine forms on road from Zaporizhzhia to Crimea

OLENA ROSHCHINA – TUESDAY, 30 AUGUST 2022, 17:21

A large queue of trucks loaded with produce stolen from Ukraine has formed as the Russian occupiers take this year’s harvest from the occupied territories in the south of Ukraine.

Source: RIA Melitopol

Details: RIA Melitopol reports that the Russian occupiers have been stealing agricultural products from Zaporizhzhia Oblast since the first days of the occupation. Convoys of trucks carrying Ukrainian grain stretch from the Melitopol district in Zaporizhzhia Oblast all the way to Crimea.

Quote from RIA Melitopol: "Only a few lonesome cars travel on the road to Melitopol, but one wouldn’t be able to travel fast in the opposite direction. The road is filled with trucks chock-full of grain stolen from the Melitopol, Berdiansk and Vasylivka districts [of Zaporizhzhia Oblast].

This is happening on the road to Crimea daily. The occupiers are already taking away this year’s harvest, which they are buying from local farmers for next to nothing. Many of the farmers are abandoning their fields because they see no point in harvesting the crops."

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