So those would be Ukrainian mines...
Posted on 05/11/2022 8:26:52 AM PDT by Wuli
Russian forces have riddled Ukrainian fields with mines and destroyed equipment in areas they once occupied, in what returning farmers and the Kyiv government allege is a campaign by Moscow to hobble the country’s agricultural industry.
Russia’s invasion already has decimated shipments of corn, wheat and sunflower oil from what was until recently one of the world’s biggest food exporters. Prices have soared, adding to global food-price inflation and heaping misery on developing countries that had been dependent on imports from the region.
The extent of damage to some farms, together with port disruption and a shortage of fertilizer, demonstrates how the war’s impact on Ukraine’s agriculture industry could extend well into next year.
When Russian troops pulled out of areas around Kyiv, they left shattered buildings and were accused of war crimes against the local population. Farmers in northern Ukraine say they have returned to fields littered with mines, unexploded ordnance and large craters. Several workers have been killed, and the work has been placed on hold in some areas, the farmers add.
Alex Lissitsa, chief executive of IMC, one of Ukraine’s largest agricultural companies, said his workers should now be planting sunflowers and corn on 30,000 hectares of land (a hectare is 2.47 acres) north of Chernihiv but can’t because of unexploded shells and mines.
“It looks like this year or even the year after we will not be able to do anything here,” Mr. Lissitsa said of parts of the land. The company also lost a grain storage facility, a chemicals laboratory and other buildings and equipment to Russian shelling.
Mr. Lissitsa said he frequently hears of deaths related to mines, adding that a worker on a neighboring farm was recently killed when his tractor ran over one.
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Putin’s way of liberating the Russian Ukrainians. What an scumbag.
Fake US elections have consequences. Sorry, but this should never have happened…
If only Ukraine had surrendered and turned over the Sudetenland ... eh, uh Donbas like they were supposed to.
“After Russian Retreat, Ukraine’s Farmers Discover Fields Full of Mines”
The stupid Russians planted mines hoping they’d grow into tanks.
Holdomor II.
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So those would be Ukrainian mines...
just BS but some buy this propaganda.Stay out of other countries civil wars. Z should have taken the good deal when he had a chance.
your comments are the only propoganda so far on this thread
“So those would be Ukrainian mines...”
or mines left by the retreating Russians
Jeez… it’s very fortunate that the Ukrainians aren’t deploying their mines and artillery, including the hundreds of thousands of new shells pouring into Ukraine given to the Ukrainian government.
“So those would be Ukrainian mines...”
The Ukrainians do not produce PFM-1 mines which are the worst of the mines that need to be cleared. They are exclusively made by Russia and typically deployed as a cluster munition. Most countries have banned them as they tend to look like toys and children commonly pick them up.
“After Russian Retreat, Ukraine’s Farmers Discover Fields Full of Mines”
modern version of salting the earth ...
You may not have noticed, but the Russians aren't retreating in Eastern Ukraine.
"...developing countries that had been dependent on imports from the region....
The "Developing countries" have been developing since I was in kindergarten.
Isn't it time for the U.N. and the 'donor' nations to projectize the global nation state welfare/assistance process and put a delivery date on which each developing country will be considered developed and the handouts stopped?
Did you test this article with a BS meter before posting?
Landmines? I bet Princess Di is rolling in her grave.
I test comments like yours with the B.S. meter, which fails such comments
“You may not have noticed, but the Russians aren’t retreating in Eastern Ukraine.”
You may not have noticed the war theater is a patch quilt in Eastern Ukraine and some areas once occupied by Russian troops are not occupied by them now.
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