AP: Russia since the beginning of the war stole grain from Ukraine by $ 530 million

From the beginning of the war, Russia took out grain from Ukraine by at least $ 530 million, which were eventually spent on war, found out the Associated Press in a joint investigation with the PBS channel.

Journalists used satellite pictures, grain transportation documents, video recordings posted on the network, and data from ship transponders. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, more than 50 foods with food, including Laodikia, Suria and Phenicia, arrived in the ports of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon.

The material also states that the structure of the Russian billionaire Viktor Rashnikov and the United Shipbuilding Corporation, which has already fallen under US sanctions, is associated with the transportation of stolen grain. Through its “daughter” Crane Marine Contractor, the company bought three cargo ships a few weeks before the war, later they made at least 18 flights between the Crimea and the ports of Turkey and Syria. So, the Mikhail Nenashev dry cargo associated with her in the summer went to the Crimea. The 170-meter vessel was photographed by a satellite during the load on the Avlit terminal in the annexed Sevastopol, while its radio transponder was turned off. Then it went to Turkey: the ship fell on the picture at the Metalurji pier - the Turkish asset of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant Viktor Rashnikov. The documents indicated that the vessel with grain is sent to the port of the Caucasus, but this port is too small for this vessel and it would be aground, the publication notes.

Separately, journalists also emphasize that the network contains photos and videos, which captured the grain trucks moving through the occupied regions of Ukraine. Most of them draw the symbol "Z". Also in satellite images, trucks and trains are visible, lining in the queue during grain loading into ships.