In April 2022, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said on his Telegram channel: “Our food is our silent weapon. Silent — but formidable.”
Not silent any longer. Russia is expected to rake in a historically high wheat harvest for the second year in a row and is increasingly using that bounty to undermine Ukraine and gain global influence. Despite Moscow’s claims that Western sanctions have put a stranglehold on its food exports, Russia’s share of the global wheat market has grown dramatically since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It is expected to export 47.
Three days after Russia’s departure, which caused the agreement to fall apart, five European Union countries on or near Ukraine’s border wrote to the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, asking it to extend a temporary ban on the imports of Ukrainian grain into those countries till the end of the year.
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