On August 19, Crimean gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov stated that “thanks” to the aggressor’s leadership “and personally to Deputy Prime Minister” Dmitry Patrushev, the occupied peninsula intends to “sell up to a million tons of grain on foreign markets under the quota,” and “400 thousand tons have already been selected, and new batches are currently being prepared.”
This “optimism” directly contrasts with Aksyonov’s statements a week ago that this year the occupied peninsula allegedly “harvested 1 million 175 thousand tons of grain and leguminous crops,” which allegedly “fully covers the republic’s domestic needs,” but allegedly harvested no more than 783 thousand tons of wheat.
Let us recall that in 2024, the occupiers announced a harvest of only one and a half million tons of wheat, and it was stated that “of this amount, 960 thousand tons will remain in the republic, and 500 thousand tons will be sold.”
We wrote that the current wheat harvest is almost 200 thousand tons less than the Crimean residents themselves need for bread, but, nevertheless, the occupiers continue to export grain from the peninsula. At the same time, it is obvious that the collaborators will simply have nowhere to get a million “export” tons, and therefore they intend to include grain from the occupied mainland in this “quota” through appropriate scams.
Against this background, Aksyonov’s half-admissions that Crimea “lost up to 30% of the vegetable and fruit harvest” and the grape harvest will be less than last year “by 15-18%” are obviously preparing the population for another jump in prices for the corresponding “excesses.”
