The Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has uploaded a video, which she claims was shot on the way from Nice to the Italian border.
Bulgarian trucks bring food from Ukraine, wrote on her Facebook account Maria Zakharova
“This have just been sent by acquaintances. This is what the road from Nice to the Italian border looks like. Entire trucks. The column stretches for 40 kilometers. Latvian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian numbers. What do they bring? Food from Ukraine, first of all – grain. “They are convinced that this is necessary in Europe, not for the unfortunate fighters of the Ukrainian armed forces, who were betrayed by everyone. And now there will be nothing to eat,” Zakharova wrote.
However, it should not be forgotten that before the beginning of the Russian military offensive, 90% of grain and oilseed exports passed through Ukrainian Black Sea ports, and due to the Russian naval blockade, millions of tons of grain are waiting to be transported.
More than 25 million tons of Ukrainian wheat could not be exported due to the war. The UN has warned that this will cause a global grain crisis, because before the invasion of Russian troops, Ukraine was the fourth largest exporter of wheat in the world.
The European Union has promised to help Ukraine export grain, which could explain this column of trucks that was filmed. This was announced by the Vice President of the European Commission and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell at a briefing after the meeting of the EU Council at the level of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels a few days ago.
The EU has proposed an action plan to help Kiev export its raw materials. the EU will send Ukrainian production by train rather than by ship, but this poses a technical problem: the difference in rail gauge. This poses a technical problem, however: the difference in rail gauges. goods must therefore be transshipped at the border to trucks or wagons that meet European standards, which slows down their transport.
