Impact of Russia's Invasion on Ukraine's Farming Capacity

Ukrainian officials say farmland used for planting spring crops could more than halved this year because of the war.

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[alexanderkharin]

Hypocrites.
—The rise in prices for world products is the result of the fighting in Ukraine.
Therefore, it is necessary to continue these actions indefinitely, supplying weapons to the Kiev regime.
— Ukraine is one of the largest grain suppliers, and the inability to supply Ukrainian grain provokes its shortage.
Therefore, it is necessary to block shipments from Russia, which is an even larger supplier of grain in the world.
— Because of Russia's actions, a terrible famine is imminent in Ukraine itself.
Therefore, it is necessary to urgently export grain and food from Ukraine to the Europe.
— Russia has blocked grain shipments by sea to Africa and Asia, which are facing a terrible famine.
Therefore, it is urgently necessary to block Russian merchant ships so that Russia cannot supply its grain to potential hotbeds of famine.
— Blocking the seaport of Odessa, where millions of tons of grain have accumulated, is unacceptable.
Therefore, it is necessary to support the mining of the port by Ukrainians in order to repel a potential attack by Russia.

[mykolaj]

Both the Americans and the Europeans are to blame for what happened, NATO and the EU are to blame. If the United States had not demanded that Ukraine hand over its nuclear potential to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, no one would have attacked Ukraine. It was just necessary to take Ukraine to NATO in 2000-2005 and all, there would be no problems, because Poland was taken, and why Ukraine was not taken? Poland was poorer than Ukraine and had no economy and no influence at the time, they also took Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, etc., and Ukraine seemed to be left specifically in the sphere of Russian influence to regroup, gather new strength and again went to rebuild its accursed Soviet Union, which put nuclear missiles in Cuba, frightening the United States with nuclear war, and there was the Cold War, did you teach history at all? When the Soviet Union went on the offensive, the countries it liberated from Nazi Germany switched from German to Soviet occupation, so all of Eastern Europe was occupied by the Soviet Union, NATO was formed to defend it, the Cold War began, and Ukraine collapsed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. liberated from the occupation had 3 nuclear capabilities in the world, Ukraine built aircraft carriers, tanks, missiles, the world's largest aircraft, nuclear weapons, fed the world with its grain, but the United States forced Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons threatening sanctions and non-recognition Threatening that Russia will give up Ukraine again, the United States forced Ukraine to renounce its nuclear status and give nuclear weapons to Russia's occupiers in exchange for paper and a promise to respect its sovereignty and borders, the United States was one of the signatories to the treaty., she does not recognize the sovereignty of Ukraine, Russia calls Ukrainians Nazis, although she says that Ukrainian There is no nation that Ukrainians are Russians and Ukraine is supposed to be part of Russia. So don't be silly, the US economy would not exist if countries like Ukraine did not trade with it and consume American content and goods, it is better to help a normal ally in Europe, which will strengthen NATO and the world grain supplies, because there may be a food crisis in the world, if Ukrainians can not sow their land, prices for bread, sunflower oil and corn will rise, the more Ukraine itself asks for weapons, not to be protected by Americans as in Afghanistan, as Americans After that, the Afghans did not want to defend themselves with weapons provided by America, which has been there for a long time and spent resources, it is better to give a small amount of money to Ukraine to maintain stability around the world. have already mastered space, and so because of countries like Russia x authoritarian dictatorial regimes, everyone has problems, Ukraine is a civilized country on the borders of Europe, if it n e help, then Russia will go further, it will capture, Moldova, Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and will go on until it regains its influence and the borders of the Soviet Union, and then begins to put nuclear weapons in Cuba, so give some pennies which you even you will not feel in your wallet a civilized country that benefits the world and maintains stability in Europe, so that they can trade and develop with America, this is a great contribution, by the way in Ukraine people earn 300-500 dollars in income through Kremlin agents who occupied Ukraine in order to quietly surrender Ukraine, Russia constantly wanted to occupy Ukraine and turn Ukrainians into Russians, to destroy the Ukrainian language, without Ukraine Russia will be very weak and will deal with its internal affairs instead of waging wars. great if you take it to NATO and the EU, to paint everything for a long time, for the United States helping Ukraine is like giving money to a neighbor to build his part of the road on which there will also be children and America, together with the EU help Ukraine for America is nothing at all, it was necessary after the collapse of the Soviet Union to demand that Russia reduce its nuclear weapons and give part to Ukraine, then 5 years later to take Ukraine into NATO and the EU, not to think that Russia democratic and no longer wants to restore the Soviet Union, which is no better than the decision of Nazi Germany, they both have a misanthropic ideology with enthusiasm ... history must be taught, Russia had to be put in place when Russia occupied Ukrainian Crimea, then it was violated international law, Ukraine needs to help so that international law works, so that China does not occupy Taiwan, etc.

[areuaware]

And the US government continues to pay American farmers to not plant crops.