INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Satellite images and GPS data indicate that Russia could be exporting grain smuggled out of occupied Ukrainian territory, investigations by
photographs and port records indicated that Russia had exported around 140,000 tons of grain in eight shipments from annexed Crimea to Syria
and Turkey in May.The figures mark an unseasonal increase in the volume of grain exports at the sanctioned Crimean port compared with
previous years.The publication also tracked activity consistent with the smuggling of looted goods, such as vessels switching off their
transponders in violation of international law, using ship-to-ship transfers at sea and forging paperwork to obscure the origins of its
cargo.It stressed, however, that there was no hard evidence that the tracked vessels carried grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian
traveled to Crimea earlier in June.Satellite images showed that one grain terminal in the Crimean port of Sevastopol processed far higher
servicesrevealed that Ukrainian farmers in occupied territories had also been forced to sell grain to Russia at knockdown
prices.Moscow-installed authorities in occupied Ukrainian territories announced earlier in June that rail cars carrying Ukrainian grain from
on Western governments to lift economic sanctions against Moscow in order for the Russian military to lift its Black Sea blockade.Russia and
Ukraine accounted for more than 25% of international grain exports in 2021, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.Millions
