{"id":1979491,"date":"2023-07-21T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-bombs-ukraine-grain-silos-in-attack-on-world-food-supplies\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:07:06","slug":"russia-bombs-ukraine-grain-silos-in-attack-on-world-food-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-bombs-ukraine-grain-silos-in-attack-on-world-food-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacks Ukraine&#8217;s grain silos, threatening global food supplies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Frussia-bombs-ukraine-grain-silos-in-attack-on-world-food-supplies%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=1979491&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>\n<h2>Russia Escalates Attacks on Ukrainian Food Export Facilities<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Russia pounded Ukrainian \u200dfood\u200c export facilities for a fourth day in \u200ca row on Friday \u200band practiced \u200bseizing ships in the Black Sea in an escalation of what Western leaders \u200dsay is an attempt to wriggle out of sanctions by\u2062 threatening a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-food-crisis-ukraine-war-will-have-catastrophic-effect-on-global-food-supply-agri-org\/\" title=\"\u2018Global Food Crisis\u2019 Ukraine War Will Have \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 Effect on Global Food Supply - Agri Org\">global food crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Attacks on Ukraine&#8217;s\u200d Grain<\/h3>\n<p>The attacks\u2064 on Ukraine&#8217;s grain, a \u200cmajor\u200c part of the global food chain, followed a \u2064vow \u2063by Kyiv to defy Russia&#8217;s naval blockade on its grain export ports following Moscow&#8217;s withdrawal this\u2062 week from a UN<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-bombs-ukraine-grain-silos-in-attack-on-world-food-supplies\/\" title=\"Russia attacks Ukraine's grain silos, threatening global food supplies.\">-brokered safe \u200bsea corridor agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, \u2063the grain terminals of an agricultural enterprise in Odesa region were hit. The enemy destroyed 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley,&#8221; regional governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram\u200d messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs released by the emergencies ministry showed a fire burning\u2064 among crumpled metal buildings that appeared to be storehouses. Two\u200b people were injured, Kiper said, while officials reported seven dead in\u2062 Russian air strikes \u2064elsewhere in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow \u2063has described the attacks as revenge for a Ukrainian strike \u200con a Russian-built bridge to Crimea\u2014the \u200cUkrainian \u200cBlack Sea peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014. \u200dIt\u2062 accuses Ukraine of using the sea corridor to launch &#8220;terrorist attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia said its\u200c Black Sea fleet\u2063 had practiced firing rockets at &#8220;floating targets&#8221;\u200b and it\u2064 would deem\u200c all ships heading for Ukrainian waters to be potentially carrying \u200barms.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv responded with a similar warning about ships headed to Russia. &#8220;Terrorist\u200b attacks are when Russian anti-ship\u2063 missiles hit shopping malls, hospitals,\u2064 and grain terminals,&#8221; tweeted Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on grain export infrastructure and anxiety over shipping drove prices of benchmark Chicago wheat futures towards their biggest weekly gain since the \u2062February 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The United\u200c States this week \u2062condemned Russia&#8217;s strikes on Ukraine&#8217;s grain infrastructure, accusing the country of threatening global food security to\u200d gain leverage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u2063think it ought to\u200d be quite\u200b clear to everyone in the world \u2062right \u200cnow that Russia is using food as a weapon of war, not just against the Ukrainian people, but against all the people\u200b in the world, especially the most underdeveloped countries who depend \u2063on grain from the region,&#8221; State Department spokesman Matt Miller said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Security Council was due to meet later over Russia&#8217;s exit from the grain deal, which aid groups say is vital to fend off \u200chunger in poor countries.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan,\u2063 a sponsor\u200b of the deal, said he hoped talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin could revive it, warning its collapse would drive\u2062 up prices, create hunger, and potentially cause new waves of migration.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow says it will not participate in the year-old grain deal without better terms for its own food and fertilizer sales.<\/p>\n<p>Western leaders accuse Moscow \u2064of \u2062seeking to loosen sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine, which already exempt exports of Russian food. Russian grain\u200c has moved\u2063 freely through\u200d the\u2062 Black Sea to market throughout the conflict.<\/p>\n<h3>Wagner Near Poland Border<\/h3>\n<p>A Polish broadcaster \u2063reported on Friday that a military reconnaissance drone of unspecified origin had crashed near\u2064 a base in southwestern Poland this \u2062week.<\/p>\n<p>NATO military alliance \u200dmember Poland has been reinforcing its border\u2063 with Belarus, where Russia&#8217;s \u2064Wagner mercenary\u2063 force has taken up \u2063residency after a failed mutiny last \u200bmonth.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus has said Wagner fighters are training its troops near the Polish border. Residents in Poland close to the \u2063frontier report having heard shooting and helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, investigators detained prominent nationalist Igor Girkin, a former commander of\u200d Russia&#8217;s proxy \u2062forces in Ukraine, who had publicly accused \u2063Putin and army chiefs of not prosecuting the war in Ukraine harshly or effectively enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a\u2062 direct outcome of \u2062Prigozhin&#8217;s mutiny:\u200c the army&#8217;s command\u200c now wields greater political leverage\u200b to quash its opponents in the public sphere,&#8221; said \u200dTatiana Stanovaya, founder of the R.Politik analysis firm.<\/p>\n<p>Inside \u200dUkraine, four people were killed in 80 Russian attacks \u200don settlements in \u200bthe southern Zaporizhzhia region over the\u200c past \u206424 hours, regional\u200c governor Yuriy Malashko said.<\/p>\n<p>A married couple in their fifties were killed in Russian shelling of the city\u200b of Kostiantynivka in the eastern region \u2062of Donetsk, the general prosecutor&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>And in the northern region of Chernihiv, a woman&#8217;s body was pulled from rubble \u200dafter\u2064 a missile \u2063strike, \u2062regional governor Viacheslav\u200c Chaus said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia had already used \u200dalmost \u200d70 missiles and almost 90 Iranian-made drones to attack\u2062 so far this \u2062week, mostly\u200c targeting Odesa and other southern regions, Ukrainian President\u200b Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-flip-flops-now-says-ukraine-grateful-after-slamming-israeli-mediation-on-russia\/\" title=\"Zelensky Flip-Flops: Now Says Ukraine 'Grateful' After Slamming Israeli Mediation on Russia\">nightly video address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine last year and claims to have annexed nearly\u200c a fifth of its\u2062 territory. Moscow says it\u200d is responding to threats posed by its\u2063 neighbor; Kyiv and the West call it\u200b an unprovoked war of conquest.<\/p>\n<p>(Additional reporting by Anna Pruchnicka in Kyiv and Reuters bureauxWriting by Philippa\u2064 FletcherEditing by Peter Graff)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia continued its assault on Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth consecutive day, while also conducting ship seizures in the Black Sea. This aggressive behavior is seen by Western leaders as an attempt to evade sanctions by creating a worldwide food shortage. Ukraine&#8217;s grain industry, a significant contributor to the global market, has been heavily targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1979492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979491","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}