How Putin is weaponizing hunger | DW Documentary
Russian agriculture has seen an upswing since Vladimir Putin took office. Russia is now the world’s largest exporter of wheat – providing Putin with a new instrument of power.
On 24 February 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukraine in the largest military operation on the European continent since the end of World War Two. Putin aimed to take Kyiv and install a regime supporting his own interests. The price of grain exploded almost immediately. How was Putin able to destabilize global agricultural markets to such an extent with his attack on Ukraine?
This documentary was filmed in Russia, Ukraine and Egypt, the world’s largest grain importer. Political decision-makers and agricultural actors analyze how agricultural products and wheat in particular have been used by Moscow as a way of exerting pressure comparable with the arms industry and oil exports.
Ukraine is also a key producer of wheat. But the nation’s grain sector has been targeted by the Russian army throughout this war: farms and infrastructure have been destroyed and property and harvests seized in occupied areas.
After failing to capture Kyiv, Russia has since early 2022 focused its attentions on cultivated areas in eastern and southern Ukraine – some of the most fertile agricultural land on Earth.
Moscow’s goal is to subsume one of its biggest agricultural competitors. It also seeks to further destabilize grain markets, and eventually control them. Putin wants to strengthen Russia’s power as an agricultural state and divide the world up into new zones of influence.
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29 comments
The west was doing that for years in africa and world bank loaned designed to trapping them in poverty despite having large mineral resources only after China start to invest real change happened, if you worried about world hunger ask the whitehouse to make a phone call yup peace need a phone call easy
Ask Israel if food and water can use as weapons.
What a load of guano. Forgot to mention 2014 coup d'etat, using Minsk agreements to have NATO arm Ukraine,
Ukraine shelled Donetsk with artillery for 8 years killing 20,000 civilians, but "russia bad" for not putting up with that.
Are you trying to say that the U.S. military burning the Syrian wheat fields is different?
I considered what they are doing is a war crime
Baised nonsense, typical dw bs
Thanks.❤ONE2
#0:53 I think I saw the devil herself there
How Israel is weaponizing hunger on Gaza Strip?
Cover this news…..
We will never be fooled by these western media,never… it's allll lies
Just say you hate Putin Already Liberals. Jesus. Dude leave Russian affairs to Russian people. Everyone else stay out of it.
Egypt Is Still Living Under The Lords Judgement For What Pharaoh Did To The Hebrew Children
God bless Russia, we are with you all the way!
Are you talking about what America is going in Syria bought off media
Just like every great dictator & somehow this is what the US wants 🤦🏽♀️
DW is classic western propaganda
It's not the first time Russia has done this, just before the second war broke out they starved millions of people to death in Ukraine!
Interesting piece of propaganda. They forgot to mention the impact that sanctions have on food exports, and food availability and prices
i guess u confused Putin with Netanyahu! You must be careful not
to confuse such simple
things
Are pro-Russian trolls nearly fully entered the chat? 🫣 🤨 🙄
DW Documentary have made a good work. 👏🏻✅
Make a video on Israel and Yemen doing this. But we know you are pro west not pro truth. I appreciate your coverage is Russia, they are truly evil. But Israel is too, and what Saudi is doing is also terrible to Yemen
Stop NATO expansion
No nesesito hablar alemán ó inglés para saber que están tomando un bando y uniéndose a la locura 😂😂😂😂😂
I think ukrain made a big bad decision by upsetting Russia
How America is weaponising the dollar !
How Europe is weaponising its regulatory overreach
How the west is weaponising “values “ as a pre text to attack countries
Shall we continue?
This war has revealed that nowbody rules this world. As to me, it is very strange and unrest situation.
There are no depths to which KGB putin will not plunge in order to bring purgatory upon those he hates.- the man is the embodiment of evil..
This is a European problem especially "NATO" not a "world" problem, Africa has its challenges and conflicts, South America as well and Asia too.
Everything comes to an end… One man can end hundreds of thousands of lives, yet still exist….incredible! I don't understand why he decided to destroy his own country and people?