{"id":1433309,"date":"2022-04-12T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433309"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:31:48","slug":"global-food-crisis-russian-forces-actively-bombing-and-destroying-wheat-stocks-in-ukraine-as-crisis-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-food-crisis-russian-forces-actively-bombing-and-destroying-wheat-stocks-in-ukraine-as-crisis-mounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Food Crisis: Russian Forces Actively &#039;Bombing and Destroying&#039; Wheat Stocks in Ukraine As Crisis Mounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fglobal-food-crisis-russian-forces-actively-bombing-and-destroying-wheat-stocks-in-ukraine-as-crisis-mounts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433309&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1387878769-e1649758082552-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As the entire world edges toward a period of serious food instability, Russian armed forces have been actively targetting wheat stocks in Ukraine for destruction, an EU official has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Russian military assets have been actively targeting and destroying stocks of wheat in Ukraine \u2014 one of the world\u2019s largest producers of grains \u2014 during a period when the world needs it most, an EU official has claimed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Josep Borrell, the European Union\u2019s Foreign Affairs Tsar, made the claim shortly after a meeting of foreign ministers from across the bloc partially aimed at implementing even more sanctions against Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2022\/04\/11\/russia-is-targeting-wheat-stocks-in-ukraine-worsening-global-food-crisis-eu-says\">report<\/a> by Euronews, Borrell said that the Russian forces had not only been blockading Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea, preventing food exports from the invaded country, which is responsible for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/20\/global-famine-feared-as-russian-fleet-blocks-ukrainian-grain-ships\/\">vast amount<\/a> of the world\u2019s wheat supply, but are also going so far as to actively target and destroy stockpiles of the much-needed resource.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are bombing Ukrainian cities and provoking hunger in the world,\u201d Borrell is reported as saying.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey are provoking hunger in the world by blocking the exports of wheat and by destroying the storage of wheat in Ukraine,\u201d the foreign affairs chief continued.<\/p>\n<p>The senior EU bureaucrat was also keen to emphasise that food shortages facing many Europeans were not the result of EU level sanctions against Moscow, but directly caused by Russian disruption of supply chains via blockades and military strikes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;If you think we\u2019ve got Hell on earth now, you just get ready,&#8221; said the World Food Bank executive director. &#8220;If we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa\u2019s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, [the] Middle East is coming to Europe.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q32o4Tp8iG\">https:\/\/t.co\/q32o4Tp8iG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1507669030706061315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Borrell\u2019s suggestion that Russia is actively targeting wheat stocks in Ukraine is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/europe\/russia-accused-of-deliberately-trying-to-cause-famine-in-ukraine-1.4832664\">largely<\/a> innovative, he is far from the first person to suggest that Russia\u2019s actions in the region will cause a global food crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZero [grain] is currently being exported from the ports of Ukraine \u2014 nothing is leaving the country at all,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/20\/global-famine-feared-as-russian-fleet-blocks-ukrainian-grain-ships\/\">noted<\/a> J\u00f6rg-Simon Immerz \u2014 who leads a grain trading company \u2014 regarding alleged Russian blockades of Ukrainian ports.<\/p>\n<p>Immerz also noted that supplies coming out of Russia \u2014 another traditionally major player in the global wheat market \u2014 had also significantly fallen, while one senior Russian official has since threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/03\/global-food-crisis-russia-threatens-to-limit-vital-agri-supply-to-friendly-countries-only\/\">cut off<\/a> the supply of food companies from all but so-called \u201cfriendly\u201d countries.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of factors such as these, a number of experts fear that an extreme global food crisis is imminent, with one UN official saying that the West, in particular, should be bracing for a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/26\/un-tsar-warns-europe-of-hell-on-earth-migrant-crisis-amid-global-food-shortage\/\">Hell on Earth<\/a>\u2018 migrant crisis if it does not commit more resources to fight hunger in the most vulnerable parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to provide this year a few extra billion dollars [in food aid] means you\u2019re going to have famine, destabilization, and mass migration,\u201d warned EU official and former Republican South Carolina governor\u00a0David Beasley last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think we\u2019ve got Hell on Earth now, you just get ready,\u201d he continued. \u201c\u201cIf we neglect northern Africa, northern Africa\u2019s coming to Europe. If we neglect the Middle East, [the] Middle East is coming to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Peter Caddle on Twitter:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peter_caddle\"><span>@Peter_Caddle<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the entire world edges toward a period of serious food instability, Russian armed forces have been actively targetting wheat stocks in Ukraine for destruction, an EU official has claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}