A Haaretz investigation reveals how grain stolen from occupied territory in Ukraine has been sold to Israel. The profits of the shady operation are financing Putin’s war

Ukraine’s large grain-growing areas have earned it the moniker “the breadbasket of Europe.” When the Russian military invaded in February 2022, Putin took over swaths of the country, including some of Ukraine’s main grain-growing territories. Farmers in the occupied territories testified that wheat was stolen from farms that were abandoned during the heavy fighting and that farmers who remained there have been forced to work with the occupation authorities. Russia sells the wheat at prices that are significantly lower than the market price.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-04-26/ty-article-magazine/exposed-how-ukraine-wheat-stolen-by-russia-smuggled-to-israel/0000019d-be12-ded5-abdd-be3a411f0000

 

Interesting but biased single point of view reporting — seems very FOG OF WARish — btw who is HAARTZ?