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Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grains Markets: 20-24 June 2022 Russia launched harvesting in the Southern Federal District as well as in seized and annexed Ukrainian Crimea. Other temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, which include parts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Lugansk, will be harvesting in a situation where military actions will take place at the same time as harvesting. Most if not all of this grain from occupied territories will be supplied to Africa, Middle East and other regions which suffer from insufficient food supplies. Several vessels were tracked going to Syria and Turkey with grain which has dubious origin or possibly a mix of Russian and seized Ukrainian grain. Crimea started grain harvesting almost a week earlier than planned...

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds

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Export Sales

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