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Ukraine made an offer to Lebanon to purchase barley and wheat flour stolen from Ukraine and smuggled by the Russian aggressors using Syrian ships.
The embassy of Ukraine in Lebanon reported it on its Twitter page.
Quote: “By agreement of the Ukrainian owners of the products on board, and also in order to avoid spoilage of the smuggled grain and its preservation in Lebanon, the Embassy of Ukraine made an offer to the Government of Lebanon to purchase the above-mentioned goods at the following prices:
- Wheat flour is $350 per tonne
- Barley $180 per tonne.”
It should be noted that the prices are half the market price.
After the start of a full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, a significant part of the southern regions was occupied. The Russian authorities began exporting grain from captured Ukrainian ports in the south. The Russian Federation took part of the seized grain to its territory. However, a large portion of the seized products was exported for sale abroad. For instance, Russian invaders stole the grain from the warehouses in the temporarily captured town of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region, and transport it by trucks to Russia through the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in may. Residents of Berdiansk counted more than 30 trucks with trailers loaded with grain near the Azovkabel plant.
Thus, using the ports of the temporarily occupied Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the Russian Federation exports the plundered Ukrainian grain by sea to third countries.
On July 27th, a Syrian ship carrying barley stolen from the Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, as the Embassy of Ukraine in Lebanon claims.
Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Ostash met Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday to discuss the shipment of stolen Ukrainian grain carried by the Syrian ship docked in Tripoli. The ship was loaded in the port of Feodosia with barley plundered by Russia from Ukrainian stores.
