Topic: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions - page 4. (Read 2745 times)

Less mouths on Russia - more food will be left for people. Looks like Putin has once again come up with a very peculiar method of solving the food crisis in Russia

In the meantime, the indicative "economic news" from the terrorist country :
The authorities of Belgorod region limited the sale of eggs in one hand at weekly fairs in Belgorod. Now each resident of the region can buy no more than two dozen eggs, said Deputy Governor of the region Yulia Shchedrina. At the same time, on Putin's freak-show ""Direct Line" Putin blamed everyone but himself for the problems of the country and economy. According to Putin, the rise in the price of chicken eggs, which brought back kilometer-long lines from the 1990s to Russian regions, was the result of "a failure in the government." Officials "did not open imports in time," Putin said after egg prices soared 20 percent in a month and a half and more than 46 percent since the beginning of the year.
...At the same time, a shortage of chicken meat has emerged across Russia.

As the saying goes, "взялиcь зa яйцa - кypы пpoпaли"   

First and foremost, what does this news has to do with food security in the world?

Anyway, I'll have to disappoint you: why do you think all these army men are now located in Ukraine? Firstly, the Russians are now in the process of signing up volunteers and training them before sending them to Ukraine. Out of those 250 thousands and 244 thousands, some part were sent home as a part of rotation (yes unlike the Ukrainian military, Russians can afford to rotate their personnel). Simple as that.

I have a better question: why are you not with the military yet? Your country needs you! Oh, perhaps I know the answer: average life expectancy of a Ukrainian soldier on the frontline is now around 2 hours! Yes, you got it right 2 hours (it used to be 4 hours at Bakhmut). No wonder you prefer to troll from safety of your home!    

Today, during a direct line, Putin for the first time acknowledged the colossal losses of Russians in the war against Ukraine, which amounted to 363 thousand military personnel.
Thus, he stated that the invading army numbered approximately 250 thousand people. Then 244 thousand were mobilized to the front and 486 thousand volunteers were recruited under contract, which together amounts to 980 thousand. Also, according to Putin, 617 thousand Russians are now taking part at the front. Thus, direct losses amount to 363 thousand.

This is even slightly more than what is officially reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which states that Russian losses amount to 342,800 people. In the last 24 hours alone, Russian losses at the front amount to 1,300 people.

Source:
https://uanews.net/ru/post/287421

What do you expect from a terrorist country with a Nazi ideology ?
This war is not for the sake of an idea, not for the sake of "Russian-speaking people", or not for the sake of "Ukraine not joining NATO". This is a war to simply destroy Ukraine, with its Russian inhabitants, among others. To sow chaos and return everything to the Middle Ages, and in such a way - where agreements, obligations, moral and ethical norms do not work. Where there is only blood, violence, fear, and "sun-faced Putin".... Rashism is an ideology of destruction, but not of creation. They have never lived like normal people and they want the whole world to live normally. Because they simply do not know how to create for good, they are used to steal, break, kill. And that has to stop. Otherwise, the whole world will turn into DNR/LNR/PMR/Abkhazia.....

And yes, Russia continues to carry out terrorist attacks on the seaports of Odessa region and Odessa, knowing that grain is shipped there to those who need it. Although not so long ago, they were covering themselves with this topic, making sad and concerned faces, talking about famine in some countries that critically need to receive grain.... But as it turned out, it was only Russian grain.

Russia is not abandoning its attempts to prevent Ukraine from selling its agricultural products on the world market, carrying out missile, bomb and drone attacks on port infrastructure on the Black Sea coast. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces give such attempts a worthy rebuff.

Thus, on the evening of December 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a Su-24M bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Black Sea near Zmeiny Island. The information from the Ukrainian side is confirmed by Russian military officers; the Russian Ministry of Defense, out of habit, remains silent. The bomber was shot down while attempting to strike the Odessa region, when it tried to damage the so-called “grain corridor” - the Black Sea route through which Ukraine supplies its food.

https://www.dialog.ua/war/286025_1701806531

If all that had been said is truly having a negative impact on food security and availability then let everyone go back to making agricultural farming, if an average person is having a small garden where he do not need to go looking after what to buy being produced by others, there will be less dependency on a single supply entity, increase completion and make food items be more available for purchase at a cheaper price, this is possible because we have alot of people involved in the practice of agriculture unlike when we have lesser people being into farming.

Ukraine plans to join NATO primarily to protect itself from attacks from its ever-aggressive neighbor, the Russian Federation. This country constantly attacks its neighbors, as a rule, under the pretext of protecting Russian-speaking citizens, taking advantage of the fact that during the USSR the Russian language was actively implanted in the Soviet republics and many people in the former Soviet republics still use this language in communication. In order to escape the suffocating embrace of “big brother” in the person of Russia and continue to introduce democratic principles of building a society, Ukraine needs collective security without the participation of Russia, and NATO is almost ideal for this. Therefore, Ukraine has set a course for joining the EU and NATO.

Is Ukraine a US colony? It’s better to be a colony of the United States than of the Russian Federation. In any case, the United States does not organize famines, does not instill Bolshevik communist ideology and other attributes of Soviet power, and is not a prison of nations, which the Russian Federation still is.

I think that soon these peoples, whom Russia is now driving to Ukraine for slaughter, will rise up and gain independence. But Russia does not have its own oil and gas; it is a parasite due to the exploitation of the territory of other nationalities. Then the far-fetched greatness of the former Moscow principality will come to an end.

Thank you - I laughed heartily, and "at full lung capacity" ! 

Now just some FACTS to "confirm" your fantasies

- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law extending the moratorium on paying compensation to depositors of the USSR's Sberbank, whose savings were "frozen" by the Soviet government in 1991 and then burned up in the hyperinflation of the 1990s.
- Putin urged Russians to have eight children each. "Russia is facing "the most difficult demographic challenges," and to overcome them, it is necessary to revive the tradition of having many children in families, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday."
- Students at Lyceum No. 2 in the town of Mamadysh in the Republic of Tatarstan's Mamadysh city were forced to process mine tails, assemble wound tourniquets and ampule containers for the needs of the war in Ukraine as part of a children's art circle.
- There is no money in the Russian budget for 2024-2026 to expand the project to support young scientists "Mendeleev map". This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with young scientists.
- Revenues of the largest oil and gas companies in Russia fell by 41% in January-September 2023, the Central Bank of Russia said in Thursday's Financial Stability Review. source - Central Bank of Russia's FINANCIAL STABILITY REVIEW. Link https://cbr.ru/Collection/Collection/File/46610/2_3_q_2023.pdf
- The number of Russians who defaulted on loans and credits for 90 days or more and came close to bankruptcy reached 9.79 million in November 2023.
Over the year, the number of such borrowers increased by 11%, and their total debt increased from 5.68 trillion to 6.33 trillion rubles, according to data from the United Credit Bureau (UCB), which was published by Kommersant.
According to the latest data of the Central Bank, the total number of borrowers in banks and MFIs as of July 1, 2023 was estimated at 47 million people (an increase of 2 million people over the half-year). Thus, the share of possible bankruptcies is almost 20% of the total number of borrowers.
!!!! 47 million people, this is about 80% of the WORKABLE population of russia !
- Chinese authorities have called information about the intention to build an underwater tunnel to Crimea together with Russia untrue. "As for the false reports, I will not comment on them," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a press conference....
I take it China is lying too, and in your morbid fantasies - China will build another Russian fake ?!


And a pompous finale ! "The authorities demanded from retail chains to reduce the price of eggs before Putin's re-election." The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) sent a letter to retail chains with a demand to voluntarily limit markups on chicken eggs 5% until March 2024, writes RBC with reference to a copy of the document.

Will you perform a funny standup ""Great" Russia" ? ))

Why are you planning to join NATO then? What for? Let's put it straight: Ukraine ceased to exist in 2014. It's a US colony atm, governed, militarized and sponsored by Uncle Sam.

Oh sorry, I forgot, your military have 0 casualties, it's the most effective army in the world. Russians are solely and exclusively killing children and raping women. Stealing washing machines to get some chips they can use to produce missiles. Once they see the Ukrainian military they flee, they are too afraid to shoot at armed men. 

You are delusional. You are seeing this situation as some kind of battle of equal opponents, or some kind of a Mexican standoff situation... but it's not so. I can't think of any scenario which would let you to regain your territories. It simply doesn't exist. It's impossible. Russia is bigger, stronger, has more people, bigger army, more arms, better military industry etc etc etc. The longer war lasts, the more powerful Russia becomes. Can you describe in detail how do you see it? How will you get your territories back?

In order for the war in Ukraine to end, it is enough for the Russians to withdraw their occupation troops from the territory of Ukraine. Ukraine has not attacked and does not intend to attack Russia. Therefore, if the Russians go home and stop killing women and children in Ukraine and destroying the country’s infrastructure, the war will stop. All that remains is to calculate the losses caused by Russia and, through international judicial and other bodies, seek compensation for them to Ukraine, because you will have to pay for the pleasure of robbing, killing and raping. In the meantime, the Russians are attacking the territory of Ukraine, it is stupid to say that they do not want war.

Ukraine has no choice but to defend its freedom and independence. Therefore, as long as there is at least one living armed Russian left in Ukraine, the war will continue. Ukraine will definitely return its territories sooner or later.

You're trying to say that a territory-wise small country can't have a huge army? Let alone if this "small country" is second biggest in Europe after Russia? I don't feel like I need to explain this any further, just re-read my posts. I proved it with statistical data from reputable sources. Anyone with at least room temperature IQ understands that.

Wait, when did you claim that? Your post quote above proves exactly the opposite. You said Ukraine is a small country. Propaganda destroyed your brain, bud. Or ease up on that blow? 

Why in the world you're trying to prove this to me? That's an obvious fact, but completely irrelevant. I never said it wasn't so. 

Then you need to start believing not only Russians want this war to end. My biggest wish is world peace. Let go, it's over. You're not going to recapture Crimea or Donbas. Ukraine lost these territories forever. Just stop the f*cking war. Ukrainians (and Russians alike) don't have to die for that. It's not worth it.

If on November 16 I wrote: “No matter what you say here, for the second year now, relatively small Ukraine has been resisting Russian military aggression...”, then you just need to strain your brain a little to understand that  are talking about the territories of Ukraine and Russia, because There can be no other option here.

What was my lie when I wrote that Ukraine is geographically one of the largest in Europe? If we consider Russia an Asian and not a European country, not even in terms of civilization, but territorially, then I’m really wrong. But the western part of Russia still belongs to Europe.
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA %D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0 %B8

I previously wrote: “However, in recent days the situation in Avdeevka has really worsened: at the cost of heavy losses, Russian troops advanced to the eastern part of the industrial zone on the southeastern outskirts of the city.” You claim that the Russians are in Avdeevka and entered the industrial zone, where most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ fortifications were located. Whether the Russians captured the entire industrial zone on the outskirts of Avdeevka is a moot point. In addition, the situation there is constantly changing. The occupiers could get in, then they were knocked out, and this happens periodically. Therefore, do not exaggerate. Waste two brigades to capture an industrial zone on the outskirts of Avdeevka is certainly cool and worthy of the “second army of the world.”

I see you defend Russian murderers and occupiers so zealously that I begin to doubt that you are not a Russian.

I didn't ask any questions.  

That's a lie: you never specified you meant territory-wise. Lots of people, huge army... it's not small... but even if you mean territory you lie again and you fail miserably again:

Ukraine (/juːˈkreɪn/ ⓘ yoo-KRAYN; Ukrainian: Укpaїнa, romanized: Ukraina, pronounced [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] ⓘ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine

Why you keep acting like a bozo and treating the readers like retarded people? Your claims are pathetic and hilarious at the same time.

... read more Ukrainian propaganda instead? There are videos on Telegram this info can be easily verified. The Russians are in Avdiivka and they have entered the industrial zone, where most of AFU fortifications were located. Your media is lying to you, wake up!

Muahaha much faster? Is it a joke? Rabotyne and Verbove are the main villages where most of the fighting takes place. For about half a year already and no movement further. And Russians are counter-attacking right now, going to recapture these villages soon.

Meanwhile, the average age of glorious AFU soldiers, the only army in the world fighting with 0 casualties for almost 2 years, has reached 54  years. Great success!

Hasn't anyone noticed one strange event ? More precisely - suddenly disappeared, constantly informative background !
After the Russian Navy on the Black Sea was hit in the face and Russia, screaming that it would sink all the ships heading to Ukrainian ports, expectedly did nothing except threats, and Ukrainian grain entered the world market, suddenly... completely disappeared the shrieks of Russian propaganda about “starving residents of some countries” who can only be saved by Russian grain in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions?

Coincidence ?! I don't think so !!!  

I'll try to answer some of your questions. I also did not refer to your words that a significant part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet left the occupied Crimean peninsula. Previously, this fleet blocked the ports of Ukraine, but after the fire defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it was forced to move a significant part away from the territory of Ukraine, and therefore the “grain corridor” is now successfully operating without the participation of Russia.

I wrote that the territory of Ukraine is relatively small in relation to the territory of Russia, and it is not difficult to verify this by looking at the map. Although Ukraine is geographically one of the largest in Europe.

Read less Russian propaganda. The information about the capture of the Avdeevka industrial zone by the Russians is fake. There, the occupiers actually attack continuously and have some success. But the third wave of assaults that began on November 24 is still crashing against the fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Thus, from the remnants of the 1st Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces storming Avdeevka, as well as the 1st and 15th Motorized Rifle Brigades, the Russian military leadership formed a new 10th battalion, which was staffed with the remaining two brigades. That is, the battalion was assembled from TWO brigades! All that's left.
However, in recent days the situation in Avdeevka has really worsened: at the cost of heavy losses, Russian troops advanced into the eastern part of the industrial zone on the southeastern outskirts of the city. In November, Russia lost an average of 931 of its soldiers every day and this is significantly more than during the assault on another small town of Bakhmut.
https://focus.ua/amp/voennye-novosti/608756-rekordnye-s-nachala-vtorzheniya-britanskaya-razvedka-ozvuchila-poteri-vs-rf-v-boyah-za-avdeevku
But Avdeevka stands and the Russian army is rapidly being crushed against its fortifications.

The counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which mainly takes place on the southern front, is going much faster than the Russians are able to do near Avdeevka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fortified themselves on three bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper, and the occupiers clearly did not expect this. They cannot quickly transfer reinforcements there, and Russia does not yet have reserves at the front. They are forced to withdraw some of their units from the Zaporozhye Front, while weakening the section of the front there. Meanwhile, this section of the front is very promising, since it has the shortest distance to the Crimean Isthmus.

What's the global standing of Russia when it comes to export of agricultural products internationally? I'm betting they're not even in the top 10 countries who export grain that is fed to most asians and the rest of the western europeans. While there's certainly a food shortage problem afoot in the planet right now, I don't think that Russia's solely to blame for this, sure, neighboring countries like Turkey and other states will be affected by this situation but not so much that they couldn't go on anymore. There's opportunities to make allies with other countries and accept export from them, or maybe even explore the viability of agriculture in their home soil. Food shouldn't be a problem, if proper governance is administered.

I've never claimed that. Can you provide a quote from my posts to prove your statement? Russian Black sea fleet didn't go anywhere, it's still there in Sevastopol. Besides, there is no point to keep many navy ships in the region as Ukraine has no navy.

Small? Ukraine is anything but small. It's #41 in the world and #7 in Europe in terms of population, only slightly smaller than EU giant Poland.
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

Ukraine is #22 in the world ranked by number of military personnel. Bigger than France or UK.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

Quite logical as I'm not Russian. Why should I join their military near Avdiivka? But you, as a good Ukrainian should join AFU ASAP to save your country. So, what is your excuse?

Yes, they are successfully breaking the first line of one of the most fortified locations which had been hardened since 2014. Some elite units and Leopard 2 tanks were spotted near Avdiivka after AFU command had to withdrew them from the South in a desperate attempt to hold the Russians back. Today there are news of AFU being pushed back by the Russians and leaving the industrial district of the city. Btw, how is the counter-offensive going?  

After Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea initiative to secure the “grain corridor” from Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, through attacks by sea and air drones, forced the Russian Black Sea Navy to move away from the shores of Ukraine and, thus, broke the naval blockade of Ukrainian ports for the passage of merchant ships.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, answering questions from media representatives following the results of the Grain from Ukraine International Summit, called the Russian blockade of the Black Sea one of the biggest threats to global security, but Ukraine is successfully resisting it. He also added that Ukraine in the near future will receive warships from its partners to ensure the safety of ships that pass through the “grain corridor” created by the Ukrainian side in the Black Sea.
Source:
https://www.dialog.ua/ukraine/285420_1700922848

All the squeals of the terrorist country that they will ban the shipment of grain from Ukrainian ports if they are not given candy, a duck, a balloon, .... SWIFT - ended as expected.. Nothing It’s one thing to squeal and threaten, another thing to implement hysterics. Yes, there were several attacks on PEACEFUL ships, without weapons, and without warning - but what do you want from a terrorist country. A dull and vile terrorist!


....and for those who are not lovers of the truth, the official list of damaged (incapacitated and sunk) ships of the terrorist country’s fleet. Damaged and disabled - for modern Russia this is a synonym for lost to the fleet. Since technical backwardness does not allow them to be restored for any application. So, the list


Russian Navy
- The small missile ship “Veliky Ustyug” (Project 21631, belongs to the Caspian Flotilla) was hit by artillery or damaged as a result of a drone strike on March 7, 2022). On June 17, the damaged ship was spotted while being towed along the Volga.
- Russia lost several patrol boats pr. 03160:
On March 22, 2022, members of the separate special forces detachment “Azov” disabled a patrol boat near Mariupol with an ATGM strike; the ship was subsequently towed by Russian sailors
- On May 2, 2022, the Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone hit 2 boats in the area of Zmeiny Island.
- On May 8, 2022, the Ukrainian authorities published a recording of a hit on 3 boats of Project 03160 in the area of Zmeiny Island. Subsequently, the Yunarmeets Baltic boat, damaged during one of the collisions, was towed to Sevastopol for repairs.
- The Saratov landing craft (project 1171) was hit by a Tochka-U missile during a Ukrainian attack on the port of Berdyansk on March 24, 2022.
- At the same time, two other ships - “Caesar Kunikov” and “Novocherkassk” (Project 775) - left the parking lot, and a fire started on one of them as a result of the hit. In July 2022, Russian officials stated that the damaged Saratov was scuttled by the crew to prevent the detonation of ammunition, and was subsequently raised and towed to Kerch, where it was cut into scrap metal.
- The missile cruiser "Moskva", at that time the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, was hit by Ukrainian R-360 "Neptune" anti-ship missiles on April 13, 2022 and sank.
- The landing boat pr. 11770 was sunk by a Bayraktar TB2 drone on May 7, 2022 in the area of Zmeiny Island.
- The tugboat “Rescuer Vasily Bekh”, converted for military needs and equipped with the “Tor” air defense system, according to the Ukrainian military on June 17, 2022, was sunk by an anti-ship missile strike.
- The patrol ship "Admiral Makarov", which became the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet after the sinking of the cruiser "Moscow", the sea minesweeper "Ivan Golubets" and one unidentified ship, according to independent OSINT researchers, were damaged on October 29, 2022 during an air and sea attack drones to the naval base in Sevastopol.
- “BDK “Olenegorsky Miner”” was hit by a drone on August 4, 2023 during an attack on the Black Sea Fleet base in Novorossiysk.
- The diesel-electric submarine B-237 Rostov-on-Don and the large landing ship Minsk were seriously damaged as a result of a missile attack on the Sevastopol Marine Plant on September 13, 2023.
- The small missile ship "Samum" on September 14, 2023 became the target of an attack by a naval drone, as a result of which it was towed to the port with a clear list on board.
- The small missile ship "Askold" was damaged on November 4, 2023 as a result of a missile attack on the Zaliv plant.
- The Project 1176 “Akula” boat and the Project 11770 “Serna” boat were hit on November 10, 2023 by Ukrainian naval drones in the north of Crimea.

“Everything is going according to plan” (c) Kremlin pathetic Fuhrer

Progress already lies in the fact that you recognize at least two ships sunk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian Black Sea Fleet. But where did this Russian fleet go, not only off the coast of Ukraine, but also from the occupied ports of the Crimean peninsula? If Russian warships are not sunk or damaged as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, then where have they mostly gone? Is it scary to keep them within range of missile and drone attacks from Ukraine?

No matter what you say here, for the second year now, relatively small Ukraine has been resisting Russia’s military aggression, and it is Ukrainians who are fighting on the fronts against the invaders. And the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, was sunk by two Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles.
https://prm.ua/ru/opublykovano-vydeo-puska-ukraynskykh-raket-neptun-kotor-e-potopyly-rossyyskyy-kreyser-moskva/

I also advise you to see how the newest Russian launch vehicle Askold burns after a direct hit by three SCALP missiles. The video shows how large pieces of this ship flew off over a considerable distance. Is it listed as intact or slightly damaged?
https://24tv.ua/ru/raketnyj-udar-po-askoldu-v-seti-pojavilos-video-verojatnogo-popadanija-po-korablju-24-kanal_n2426716

You, I see, are also not writing from the trenches near Avdeevka. There, the Russian army has been grinding to death from poorly organized attacks for more than a month. Putin, if he is still alive, needs to show at least some victory on the Ukrainian front at the end of the year before the upcoming elections. Now there are about 440 thousand Russian occupiers in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and it is impossible to take even the small town of Avdiivka. Need your help. After all, this territory has long been included in the Russian Federation