Russia plans to attack Ukraine’s food industry: which facilities are under threat

Russia is preparing new attacks on food industry enterprises in Ukraine. Both Ukrainian and foreign companies operating in the country are under threat. Potential targets include grain elevators, warehouses, oil mills, dairies, meat processing plants, and poultry farms.

This was reported by Ukrinform, citing a source in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to the agency’s source, Russian troops plan to attack facilities related to the storage and processing of agricultural products. In particular, this concerns elevator and warehouse infrastructure, enterprises producing sunflower and other vegetable oils, dairies and butter factories, meat processing plants, and poultry farms.

Intelligence officials believe that Moscow is trying to destabilize Ukraine by attacking food security. Russia also hopes to use the consequences of the attacks for an information campaign aimed at demoralizing Ukrainian society.

According to the source, another goal is to inflict economic losses on Ukraine and reduce foreign exchange revenues to the state budget.

At the same time, such actions may be part of Russia’s strategy to increase its share of the international agricultural market. In particular, Moscow seeks to expand exports to countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

It was previously reported that on September 10, Russian troops attacked the Oleina plant in Dnipro, a food industry enterprise specializing in the production of refined and deodorized sunflower oil.

Also follow “Pryamim” on Facebook , X , Telegram , and Instagram.