I was pleasantly surprised by the level of research and source verification done in this video. Actually gathering evidence before making a statement is lost on most so-called journalists these days. Thank you for this in-depth report.
This is what complicates the famine in Northern Africa. It's not just a crime against Ukraine, it's a crime against poor countries who can't afford higher grain prices. Shame on them.
@@kaboom1655 it is quite possible there were contracts for that grain and it was grown and intended to go elsewhere. It is common knowledge that grain grown in Ukraine was exported to other countries. The fact that Ukraine grain is no longer available for the world market leads to rising grain prices. All Russia did was increase the cost of food for everyone globally. If people are hungry, I don't begrudge them food. Let them eat. But if Russia takes the grain and uses it in other places besides eastern Ukraine then shame.
@@kayelyward8714 The grain may well have been intended for another market but at least it is getting out. I believe the profits will benefit the Ukrainian farmers in the Donbas and it is only theft if the money is taken to Russia.
There is no need for this journalism because it's not stolen, it's taken. If a country occupies a new territory, that means that land is under their control including production. Or they were supposed to hand over the grain back?
So it’s okay for US troops to occupy Syria and facilitate the theft of oil. You do realize that US troops are stationed at a oil refinery in Syria? Again American mantra « do as I say, not as I do »
@@rubyridge5207 - the world is a conspiracy.. thankfully we have “free thinkers” like yourself who don’t follow online and talk show conspiracies spread by people with little education and zero verifiable evidence
I am not surprised and the ships going dark is very scary because what else is going on the ships and trucks…or coming back out? Food is the obvious commodity but are we witnessing something more nefarious? Shipping is a very good cover and grain is easy to transport…and to hide other commodities.
It is actually somewhat helpful when ships go dark inappropriately as it alerts observers that funny business is afoot. Helps with highlighting yachts being used as money laundering by Russian officials/oligarchs as well. Russian leaders are thieving scum and steal from decent Russians as well as decent Ukrainians.
I shudder at the merest thought of comparisons being drawn between the NYT and the WSJ. For me the WSJ is a refuge of good content in print and elsewhere.
Stolen grain from the occupied territory of Ukraine!!! This is terrorism!!!
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I don’t understand why this was allowed to happen. Turkey is in NATO. Put a bunch of military ships in the Bosporus and don’t allow any Russian ships to pass as part of the sanctions.
Cause technically NATO is not at war with Russia. While there is EU sanction, Turkey is not part of EU and has not implemented any serious large-scale sanction, besides not allowing Russian military ships in and out of the Bosporus.
Because after the war Ukraine will be join eu and tr will be there with Russia,good or bad TR-RU has working relations denying Russia has no profit for Turkey even so Turkey did a lot for Ukraine.
Probably very close to bill gates fake seed corporation giving the world GMO crops and other things that will spread the growth of cancer and other deadly conditions across that world (mainly Africa). This site about Ukraine losing money it's about the USA loosing money and time on a very complex plan. Of course this American reporter isn't going to mention that vital part.
exactly, its how europe and the west in general keeps buying russian gas/oil and diesel. Not to mention grain and many other commodities. As it turns out people dont really want to stop buying cheap and good quality commodities in favor of more expensive sources. Assuming they can even find replacements.
@@Penultimo-o3v Satellite imaged can be manipulated. We've seen that several times in the past. Do you remember the satellite prints of Saddam Hussein's so-called WMD warehouses? They turned out to be milk storage places.
@@Dspace80 nothings escaping the eyes of American spy satellites, idek why they try hiding 😂 same thing with NK and China, always getting exposed doing shady things like this
Just like America stealing syrian grain and oil we can't hide the crime.. but keep the news from every getting to American news you won't see wsj make report about that.
And KNOWING of this illicit trade, WHY is Turkey allowing it through their waters?? Turkey is either benefitting from or complicit in some of this smuggling. That's a shame. Erdogan doesn't seem much different from putin. All he has to so is CLOSE the bosphorus to illegal/stolen cargo!!
It's no secret that turk play both sides. They don't want 2 b totally controlled by west, but not too close to RUS. And can still b a "lil gangster" in mid east so they (turk) had a bit of regional power
the whole EU is still benefitting from Russian Gas, look at germany hungary and many more. Why you EU and West is so Hypocratic. We have not heard Russian side of story yet, The world dont believe on Western and us media anymore.
@@Topcaat doesn't really fall under the "liberating" part nor does all the other deeds done by russia. even if it's under russian control it's practically still stealing from their "citizens" without lawful reason except for profits going to the kremlin.
"Excellent journalism?" I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that this is even "news". Russia is taking ENTIRE CITIES. When they take the whole country, I wonder if the media say _"Russia is looting Walmart"_
@@dexterkrammer1089 Fighting ISIS? How come that when Obama regime started to fight ISIS, ISIS only grew bigger and stronger untill Russia entered in 2015? 🤔🙄
NATO navies could theoretically seize these Rusian ships for illegally plundering Ukrainian grain. The grain could still be sold to the countries that need it most but the funds would aid Ukraine, not the Russian aggressors. It would obviously be a huge escalation risk, but it seems Russia only responds to strength and shows of force.
"Arrest" the ships you mean, not "seize," is takes a lot of paperwork before you can "seize" (new owner) a ship. You "arrest" (can't move) such ships. But how would NATO be able to arrest these ships? NATO is not at war. All tradeships not at war with Turkey can pass freely and unhindered trough their straits. The rest is international waters. NATO can arrest them in port or the nearest coastal waters. Out on the open sea it would be pure piracy.
I agree, and NATO should do this, as should Turkey, since the ship routes pass through Turkish waters. We need to all stop being deterred by escalation risk. If we do nothing then that is a huge green light to organized crime syndicates like this one.
There are certainly many holdings of their foe now held in sequestration that can be divested and given to them, a court will likely process this whenever this crisis abates.
Brilliant, Vladimir. You do realize you're not getting any grain next year? It's hard to grow grain when your military has cratered the fields with bombs...
Russia is the world leader in the export of grain (in response to the sanctions, it refused to sell grain to the West). And Russian troops bomb only the ground... after a shell hits the ground deteriorates and nothing grows on it for 100 years. xDDD
@@LexMakarov The west produces enough grain to feed itself, the Russian blockade of Ukraine is threatening to cause a famine in Africa, not in Europe.
@Ruger60 Because it is what they do. They bomb everything, destroy everything. and steal what is left. Basically, they have become a giant mafia like country. There are articles showing how they steal the farms in occupied areas. They are thugs with guns and bombs.
Nothing in this report to write home about as it is purely Ukrainian propaganda. The initial route shown is in Russia ( canal between Caspian Sea and Crimea) . Much wheat, barley and soya is grown in relatively warm Southern Russia. As for the ship earlier stopped in Turkey, this was cleared as carrying legitimate Russian grain. Your report thus falls well on its head.
AS A BOAT OWNER MYSELF IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO TURN OFF A SHIP TRANSPONDER AND ANY BOAT OR SHIP DOING SO SHOULD BE BARRED FROM ENTRY INTO ANY PORT IN THE WORLD AND BARRED FROM ANY EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR THE LIFE OF THE VESSEL. SHIPS WITH NO WORKING TRANSPONDERS ARE A MASSIVE DANGER TO ALL VESSELS ON THE HIGH SEAS.
Petunia still lives in the time of the kgb where secret instructions wee whispered to each other. He's not aware off satellite images and cell phone recordings
If the research is true, then the russians are without shame, not to mention that they are so, so, low; I am beyond words. WSJ, well done with the research.
Now we know that most of that food go to Europe from Ukraine, only 13% to fight famine. Now after Russia closed that line of Ukraine lies Russia is exporting way more food to African countries for free...now who is the bad people? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Ukraine still needs a lot of help and ordinary people I know are stepping up to do just that. Some are donating to Ukraine Army, Come Back Alive, or humanitarian relief there. Anyone can do a quick search online for verified ways to help Ukraine and first thing that comes up is a big list of legit places to donate. Others are writing their governments demanding more action and sanctions against Russia or aid for Ukraine.
Oh, how stupid people are….Sanctions are not hurting Russia. They are only hurting the very countries and other countries imposing them. Zelensky is corrupt. The money people are sending is ending up in his off shore billion dollar accounts…lol. Yes it’s true, he’s in the Pandora Papers and they don’t lie. Look it up. He is a corrupt fraud. This is a proxy war. Meaning a war fought between two smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these:
How does the narrator know that the grain was not purchased. Probably shipping grain to Syria to feed the Syrians? Disabling ship and aircraft transponders in a war zone should be common practice.
1 trillion? They would have to be taking millions of barrels a day for decades to reach that sum. They don’t even have enough ships to move that quantity back. Lol at least have some basic logic before trolling
@@gnoglyr7798 OK, let's see how much trolling is there in his statement. One oil tanker is apparently worth at least $51,000,000. So 1 trillion divided by 51 million gives us over 19,607 oil tankers. According to MARAD’s latest Vessel Call Snapshot, 21,944 tankers 10,000 dwt or greater made port calls to the United States last year. Keep in mind that was for one year and large oil tankers can actually cost as much as $100 million. I would say that $1 trillion is nothing. You can also do yourself a favour and google Iraq oil production from when the USA invaded Iraq. I find it curious that from 2003 onwards Iraq's oil production doubled from1.3 - 2.3 million barrels of oil to 4.5 million barrels of oil per day! One oil tanker can carry between 70,000 to 190,000 barrels of oil. So if we work with conservative numbers, 2.3 million barrels per day gives us 839,500,000 per year. The USA controlled Iraq from 2003 till 2011 so with conservative figures that give you about 6,716,000,000 barrels of oil. If you look at the prices for barrels of oil between 2003 till 2011 you will find they fluctuated between $40 - $180 a barrel. So let's say on average of $60 a barrel you will get to about $402,960,000,000 for Iraqi oil produced while it was in the hands of the USA. It comes to about half a trillion dollars of oil and that is if I only look count from 2003 till 2011 and work with very cheap oil prices. The USA actually received oil imports from Iraq from 2000 till 2021 so we won't know how much they got or how much they paid for and how much they stole and how much they got at a very low discount price but $1 trillion does not sound that far fetch over this period.
@@thrillereighties8241 Thanks for a very good analysis. It's my personal guess that they paid for the vast majority. Interesting would then be "how much" they paid? I guess those numbers would be available to the public (though I'm not the one to go and search for them). But that the US in whichever way got $1 trillion worth of oil from Iraq would not surprise me.
Shouldn t be too hard for turkey / Nato to identify and stop those ships confiscating the cargo... Tehy should also do the same to all Russian ships basically blocking Russias blue Water access, that ll hurt more than just not selling computerchips to them. The fact those ships were registered well in advance tells everything. and if russia comlains thell them your not stealing the grain they didn t steal. But all the outrage seems to be more of a show, Mc Donalds closed its russia business, BK and KFC keep making rubels...
The details that soldier is giving are so specific it's easy for the Russian military to root him out. The man told the date, the facility he loaded from, the type of truck he drove and the time! Holy smokes!
How dumb do they have to be to mark all their trucks with Z? That would make it too easy for someone to Frame them? I would like to hear the logic behind marking the trucks.
The truck are being diverted from the army to run a thief of the grain and who knows what else they can get their grubby little hands on and they sale of those theifs will just disappear..... Putin filling his pockets ..... no one the wiser
You would have to enter Russian controlled territory to frame them. First you would need proof such as license plates etc. which they don't show. This "Z" today is used for so much I think it just means _"I belongZ to Putin, don't meZZ with me."_
@@etiennen4136 There IS no DPR. It is a fictional creation of the invaders and occupiers, the same as Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Japanese to try to legitimize their stealing of Chinese territory after their 1931 invasion of Manchuria.
NATO and / or Western allies could've vapourized these ships in the Black Sea long ago but didn't, and they also allowed Russia to plant mines in the sea, which is an international waterway.. Why didn't they stop this at the beginning, let alone allow it to still continue now? things just don't add up here
Wow actual investigative journalism??? Well done!!! Great piece. Let's hope for peace for Ukrainians and Russians alike, as so many are suffering and more will suffer.
The grain are from Kherson with the local population selling their produce to the Russians who either ship it to Russia or to country in need. Russia is not stealing the grain, they are buying it and then ship it out. Love the spin by the west and Ukraine that the grain is stolen. It was reported more than three months ago that the citizens of Kherson are doing business with Russia.
(US) United States call it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question... Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government) China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 * Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 * Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 * Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 * 2014 - 2022 - 6 countries yet to verify. Pakistan 2022 *
What is ironic is that none of those were U.S. Americans being "liberated" by U.S. Americans except maybe some students in Grenada, and we know it wasn't for the students, but the areas Russia is "liberating" are either majority Russian culturally or were part of Russia since Catherine the Great and were placed under Ukrainian administration by the Supreme Soviet in 1922.
Russian apologists looove to use the crimes of the USA to justify today's crimes by Russia... How about no crimes no war no stealing grain? Why pick a side? What the US did was WRONG and what Russia is doing is also WRONG.
What are they complaining about? If they are getting grain out then Africa won't starve. Obviously this is grain from the occupied territories and the profits will go back to the peoples Republics of Lughansk and Donetsk to support the local Ukrainians, not Russia. Sounds like a reasonable plan to me.
if the US did this people would be saying "look stealing grain to support their imperialist war". but when Russia does it "definitely not stealing grain to support a non imperialist war, they're helping starving Africans and poor Ukranian farmers". you can't be serious lollol
@StatikTiger When he comes, he'll make sure he has one too. Or maybe he'll just stand back at your property line, and launch a few mortar rounds in to denazify your smart device in a Special Internet Operation.
So here's how it actually works. When you lose territory in a war, you don't magically get to keep the commodities from territory that you lost. Kherson grain is Russian grain. Zaparozhe grain is Russian grain. Donbass grain is Russian grain. Any grain shipped from the port of Sevastopol in the Russian federation is Russian grain. All the farmers in these areas have no problem selling to Russian buyers because if you're in one of these areas you can't buy anything but with RUbles anyway. Nobody is stealing anything. Want the grain? Win the war.
Half of Putin's war chest, the 300 billion us$ of his that are currently frozen in western bank. You just gave a good reason for western governments to go ahead a seize that money and give it to Ukraine instead. You just gave Putin's money to the western countries (I hope you are not allergic to poison).
bwahahahahahahha says the same people that spread propaganda about US stealing Iraqi oil, and helping Kurds steal Syrian oil with the SDF. Thats just the tip of the iceberg , I could write a whole novel with the stuff you Russian bootlicking bots complain about when US does it, but when Russia does it "err durr its war". This is why no rational and objective person takes you people seriously...
Russia hasn't annexed this part of Ukraine so far, just has troops on the ground so it's still Ukraine, DPR and LPR are not part of Russia either, at least on paper. So why is the Russian army involved in driving civilian trucks? Why is Russia even denying this if its thinks that it's legal and the grain belongs to them?
you should post something to YT on this, don't expect others to do work you should be doing - also please don't use US invented internet, or use devices with chips in them designed by US or its allies as so doing would make you an incredible hypocrite
@@antdavisonNZ the US doesn't have allies. The chips being used in majority of phones are made by Asian companies not American nor European nations, your so called allies.
I was pleasantly surprised by the level of research and source verification done in this video. Actually gathering evidence before making a statement is lost on most so-called journalists these days. Thank you for this in-depth report.
CIA sources 👍🙄
This is what complicates the famine in Northern Africa. It's not just a crime against Ukraine, it's a crime against poor countries who can't afford higher grain prices. Shame on them.
It's not a crime against Ukraine. This is eastern Ukrainian grain and the east needs to restart its economy now it is separate frome Ukraine.
@@kaboom1655 it is quite possible there were contracts for that grain and it was grown and intended to go elsewhere. It is common knowledge that grain grown in Ukraine was exported to other countries. The fact that Ukraine grain is no longer available for the world market leads to rising grain prices. All Russia did was increase the cost of food for everyone globally. If people are hungry, I don't begrudge them food. Let them eat. But if Russia takes the grain and uses it in other places besides eastern Ukraine then shame.
@@kayelyward8714 The grain may well have been intended for another market but at least it is getting out. I believe the profits will benefit the Ukrainian farmers in the Donbas and it is only theft if the money is taken to Russia.
They should grow their own food
Then better tell the Americans to return that oil from Iraq.
Good journalism, thank you
There is no need for this journalism because it's not stolen, it's taken.
If a country occupies a new territory, that means that land is under their control including production.
Or they were supposed to hand over the grain back?
Not really. Russia doesn’t care. Never hides anything.
An expensive, well choreographed, piece of propaganda.
@@JonROlsen says who
@@typer1911 me
very impressive research! great job showing the truth! keep up the hard work!
So it’s okay for US troops to occupy Syria and facilitate the theft of oil. You do realize that US troops are stationed at a oil refinery in Syria? Again American mantra « do as I say, not as I do »
This is only a half-truth, to manipulate people who cannot think for themselves.
@@rubyridge5207 - the world is a conspiracy.. thankfully we have “free thinkers” like yourself who don’t follow online and talk show conspiracies spread by people with little education and zero verifiable evidence
I am not surprised and the ships going dark is very scary because what else is going on the ships and trucks…or coming back out? Food is the obvious commodity but are we witnessing something more nefarious? Shipping is a very good cover and grain is easy to transport…and to hide other commodities.
It is actually somewhat helpful when ships go dark inappropriately as it alerts observers that funny business is afoot. Helps with highlighting yachts being used as money laundering by Russian officials/oligarchs as well. Russian leaders are thieving scum and steal from decent Russians as well as decent Ukrainians.
How do we know that the grain isn't Russian?
It has become very fashionable to blame Russia for all that ails the world.
Whose lives are those,?This too cold be a fabrication
The West is busy stealing $300b of Russia... so...
Man, for a while I was convinced I was watching NYT's visual investigations. The narrator's voice is impeccable.
I shudder at the merest thought of comparisons being drawn between the NYT and the WSJ. For me the WSJ is a refuge of good content in print and elsewhere.
Dude ..NYT is 💩
@@rudiruttger They know how to produce propaganda too.
Stolen grain from the occupied territory of Ukraine!!!
This is terrorism!!!
I don’t understand why this was allowed to happen. Turkey is in NATO. Put a bunch of military ships in the Bosporus and don’t allow any Russian ships to pass as part of the sanctions.
Russia is the reason Turkey lost the Ottoman empire. They wont deny russia again.
Cause technically NATO is not at war with Russia. While there is EU sanction, Turkey is not part of EU and has not implemented any serious large-scale sanction, besides not allowing Russian military ships in and out of the Bosporus.
bc theyre getting paid. duh
Because after the war Ukraine will be join eu and tr will be there with Russia,good or bad TR-RU has working relations denying Russia has no profit for Turkey even so Turkey did a lot for Ukraine.
Up until few weeks ago turkey was buying a big part of the Ukrainian stolen grain. Only after big pressure from USA and Ukraine they stopped.
This is great journalism .
..Send me a dm right away
It would be interesting to know the name of that colonel ordering the looting.
all russian colonels order looting
True journalism
Wow, actual investigative journaling. Very nice
Bro, it's just war propaganda. Russia is the largest grain producer.
They spend more money on war than all the grain in Ukraine costs
@@KappaClauss no they stole it from ukraine
@@Lady.MD67 in 2021 they too stole it in Ukraine?
@@Lady.MD67 occupied territories means everything on that territory is urs anyway
The Russian guy that was talking would be identified using technology and will face punishment
For anyone wondering, the company they "don't want to name" is Nibulon. A major ukrainian agricultural company.
Probably very close to bill gates fake seed corporation giving the world GMO crops and other things that will spread the growth of cancer and other deadly conditions across that world (mainly Africa). This site about Ukraine losing money it's about the USA loosing money and time on a very complex plan. Of course this American reporter isn't going to mention that vital part.
I was, thanks
Are they looking to steal it, I guess they already have it all.
That’s how war works
It’s not a secret they go through a 3rd country and everyone pretends not to know
exactly, its how europe and the west in general keeps buying russian gas/oil and diesel. Not to mention grain and many other commodities.
As it turns out people dont really want to stop buying cheap and good quality commodities in favor of more expensive sources. Assuming they can even find replacements.
Nice to see Russian truck drivers speak better English than some of the prime Russian diplomats lol
😂😂😂
@@IntesoFFS Because Russian isn't taught around the world?
@Non Usable Account Yeah, and all the photos and satellite images were all fake, yeah
@@Penultimo-o3v Satellite imaged can be manipulated. We've seen that several times in the past. Do you remember the satellite prints of Saddam Hussein's so-called WMD warehouses? They turned out to be milk storage places.
@@Penultimo-o3v, dude, this one has "propaganda bs" written all over it.
corruption is a cancer
Is this really shocking to anyone?
Is not stolen, it is Peoples' Grain, comrades!
Imagine thinking you could hide crimes these days.
like those iranian oil tankers that we stole? or the afghan reserves?
Da comrade, turn off transponder then no one will see us... as they took another shot of vodka.
@@Dspace80 nothings escaping the eyes of American spy satellites, idek why they try hiding 😂 same thing with NK and China, always getting exposed doing shady things like this
Just like America stealing syrian grain and oil we can't hide the crime.. but keep the news from every getting to American news you won't see wsj make report about that.
@@operator9858 Sources?
It is called spoils of war...
And KNOWING of this illicit trade, WHY is Turkey allowing it through their waters?? Turkey is either benefitting from or complicit in some of this smuggling. That's a shame. Erdogan doesn't seem much different from putin. All he has to so is CLOSE the bosphorus to illegal/stolen cargo!!
It's no secret that turk play both sides.
They don't want 2 b totally controlled by west, but not too close to RUS.
And can still b a "lil gangster" in mid east so they (turk) had a bit of regional power
how it's under russian control, so its russian property lol, like the old saying finders keepers
the whole EU is still benefitting from Russian Gas, look at germany hungary and many more. Why you EU and West is so Hypocratic. We have not heard Russian side of story yet, The world dont believe on Western and us media anymore.
it under rusia ccontrol
@@Topcaat doesn't really fall under the "liberating" part nor does all the other deeds done by russia. even if it's under russian control it's practically still stealing from their "citizens" without lawful reason except for profits going to the kremlin.
Great reporting
An excellent piece of journalism and unsettling revelations. Are they hiding weapons in that grain?
Why should they smuggle weapons out of a war zone? How does that make any sense
russia is providing grain to syria, which the US has invaded illegally and is currently preventing syria from accessing its own oil and grain.
@@justcalmdown1027 why? Because syria was a democratic and developed nation right?
"Excellent journalism?" I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that this is even "news". Russia is taking ENTIRE CITIES. When they take the whole country, I wonder if the media say _"Russia is looting Walmart"_
@@dexterkrammer1089 Fighting ISIS? How come that when Obama regime started to fight ISIS, ISIS only grew bigger and stronger untill Russia entered in 2015? 🤔🙄
NATO navies could theoretically seize these Rusian ships for illegally plundering Ukrainian grain. The grain could still be sold to the countries that need it most but the funds would aid Ukraine, not the Russian aggressors. It would obviously be a huge escalation risk, but it seems Russia only responds to strength and shows of force.
"Arrest" the ships you mean, not "seize," is takes a lot of paperwork before you can "seize" (new owner) a ship. You "arrest" (can't move) such ships. But how would NATO be able to arrest these ships? NATO is not at war. All tradeships not at war with Turkey can pass freely and unhindered trough their straits. The rest is international waters. NATO can arrest them in port or the nearest coastal waters. Out on the open sea it would be pure piracy.
Why should they do that? NATO is enriching Russia pitting billions into Putins pockets everyday buying oil from Russia. Not to mention the gold…
Do it. I wanna see the impacts of the sarmat lol
I agree, and NATO should do this, as should Turkey, since the ship routes pass through Turkish waters. We need to all stop being deterred by escalation risk. If we do nothing then that is a huge green light to organized crime syndicates like this one.
@@IAMGiftbearer Turkey recently seized on of these ships, then let it go.
Impressive investigative journalism love this
Thanks for truth!
Pure lyes sheep
My God! How evil can one be to do this? I hope I see Russia fall down where Titanic is.
Your nation is already falling
with masshootings on a daily basis.
Fix you problems first before criticizing other nations!
@@user1qaz2wsx3edc whataboutism
Not more evil than US
@@user1qaz2wsx3edc that doesn’t take away that Russia is a fascist neo nazi dictatorship.
So is it better to let it rot in storage facility, while people starve?
If Ukraine wins I hope they get reparations for the stolen grain.
Russia has not stolen anything. The grain belongs to the farmers who have decided to sell their grain through the Russian Federation.
There are certainly many assets of their foe that can be liquidated across the world, a court will likely process this whenever this crisis abates.
There are certainly many holdings of their foe now held in sequestration that can be divested and given to them, a court will likely process this whenever this crisis abates.
@@MWENDA-vv5im There have been no such arrangements whatsoever, and none shall be honored that come with arms levied in their imposition!
Don't worry as it won't come to that. Its not stolen grain as those areas no longer belong to Ukraine.
Brilliant, Vladimir. You do realize you're not getting any grain next year? It's hard to grow grain when your military has cratered the fields with bombs...
Russia is the world leader in the export of grain (in response to the sanctions, it refused to sell grain to the West). And Russian troops bomb only the ground... after a shell hits the ground deteriorates and nothing grows on it for 100 years. xDDD
@@LexMakarov The west produces enough grain to feed itself, the Russian blockade of Ukraine is threatening to cause a famine in Africa, not in Europe.
@@LexMakarov so if that is the case then how is both russia and ukraine large exporters of grain?? 1945 ww2 was not 100 years ago idiot
@@tirex3673 Where will the hungry Africans go?
@Ruger60 Because it is what they do. They bomb everything, destroy everything. and steal what is left. Basically, they have become a giant mafia like country. There are articles showing how they steal the farms in occupied areas. They are thugs with guns and bombs.
Interesting and informative. Thank you.
They didn’t protect the Russian driver they interviewed at all 😂 it’s gonna be easy for them to figure out who he is
They literally changed his voice. That wasn't how he really sounds. You understand, right?
@PREKKEH bwoy So why do you think a long-standing credible news source risk intentionally creating a fake Russian mole? Bruh, come on.
But they also said there was only 4 drivers...
But they also said there was only 4 drivers...
Exactly! Plus he gave intimate details of loading dock, date and time, the type of truck, number of trucks etc
Stealing it from who? Its the farmers wheat, if they get paid then there is no stealing going on here.
If the farmers have not been murdered by the brave russians.
shame Russia 🇷🇺 say not true all you said not true.. this is Russia like bucha we support Ukraine 🇺🇦 from India 🇮🇳
ohh really ...lol
Nothing in this report to write home about as it is purely Ukrainian propaganda. The initial route shown is in Russia ( canal between Caspian Sea and Crimea) .
Much wheat, barley and soya is grown in relatively warm Southern Russia.
As for the ship earlier stopped in Turkey, this was cleared as carrying legitimate Russian grain.
Your report thus falls well on its head.
TERRORISTS RU!!!
Its not stolen Ukrainian grain, its Russian war bounty won in a rightful war.
ery impressive research! great job showing the truth! keep up the hard work!
Send me a dm right away
Hard to load a sunken ship...
well, than it is good all of them are fine and still going
God bless Ukraine and give it power to defend it's territory
@@danbrand2455 may god evaluate you in the afterlife for the words you are completely making up in his name
AS A BOAT OWNER MYSELF IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL TO TURN OFF A SHIP TRANSPONDER AND ANY BOAT OR SHIP DOING SO SHOULD BE BARRED FROM ENTRY INTO ANY PORT IN THE WORLD AND BARRED FROM ANY EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR THE LIFE OF THE VESSEL. SHIPS WITH NO WORKING TRANSPONDERS ARE A MASSIVE DANGER TO ALL VESSELS ON THE HIGH SEAS.
ukraine makes it, while Russia takes it.... been that way for 100 years. smh
My country’s old saying is: Russians are coming, hide and lock everything you have.
😂🤣🤣
What else people need to open eyes on these crimes?
Everything is being recorded Mr Putler.
just try to control your fantasies
Use sheep believed all
Petunia still lives in the time of the kgb where secret instructions wee whispered to each other. He's not aware off satellite images and cell phone recordings
Straight out of Stalin's playbook.
If the research is true, then the russians are without shame, not to mention that they are so, so, low; I am beyond words.
WSJ, well done with the research.
What shame this done by Donbass gov lo ..who tf gonna stop people of donbass... eithinic Rusian lo
Russia is a terrorist state.
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
We need to boycott any grain products from the countries that benefit from this.
Tell that to the people who need food on their table.
Switch to potatoes and rice!
so you're bitching about Russia bringing grain to the world market?
@@JonROlsen stolen grain from Ukraine...No!
@@charmainekirk1512 Darned if you do, and darned if you don't.
What do they mean "steal"?
Jesus the spam bots and Russian propaganda bots are working overtime here.
Some of them are Chinese.
Now we know that most of that food go to Europe from Ukraine, only 13% to fight famine. Now after Russia closed that line of Ukraine lies Russia is exporting way more food to African countries for free...now who is the bad people? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Brilliant investigation! Thank you!
What are they supposed to do? Let it rot?
Haven’t seen good journalism in years, but I seriously hope this situation stops.
We need to halt this network and arrest all crews onboard ship.
Ukraine still needs a lot of help and ordinary people I know are stepping up to do just that. Some are donating to Ukraine Army, Come Back Alive, or humanitarian relief there. Anyone can do a quick search online for verified ways to help Ukraine and first thing that comes up is a big list of legit places to donate. Others are writing their governments demanding more action and sanctions against Russia or aid for Ukraine.
Send me .a dm right away
Don't live your life as a stupid person.
Oh, how stupid people are….Sanctions are not hurting Russia. They are only hurting the very countries and other countries imposing them. Zelensky is corrupt. The money people are sending is ending up in his off shore billion dollar accounts…lol. Yes it’s true, he’s in the Pandora Papers and they don’t lie. Look it up. He is a corrupt fraud. This is a proxy war.
Meaning a war fought between two smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these:
Excellent Investigation.... well laid out as well. Now Blow Them UP!!
Ukraine got to do something about Crimea why they helping in the stealing of food from Ukraine 🇺🇦
What can you say. Evil is as evil steals.
Grain Theft Auto
So what are Americans supposed to do about that exactly? The Ukrainians should be doing something about it. It should’ve been handled simple
This makes me wonder what vicious and underhanded tactics are beneath the Russians.
None. They, like their Black Sea fleet flagship, are already at the bottom. You can't go any lower.
WSJ great job
From South Africa: shame on Russia for stealing Ukrainian food. Shame on Putin. Your "SPECIAL FOOD STEALING OPERATION " ? Shame.
At least there is no waste.
I get sad and angry, but then the mere existence of good journalists gives me hope. Thank you for this work.
How does the narrator know that the grain was not purchased. Probably shipping grain to Syria to feed the Syrians?
Disabling ship and aircraft transponders in a war zone should be common practice.
Unfortunate if a ship w/o an active transponder suddenly disappears.
"Accidents" are an unfortunate risk at sea especially for ships with transponders de-activated.
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It's not stealing or smuggling. It's a "Special Grain Redistribution Operation."
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US stole $1tn worth oil from iraq make a video on it.
Lies
1 trillion? They would have to be taking millions of barrels a day for decades to reach that sum. They don’t even have enough ships to move that quantity back. Lol at least have some basic logic before trolling
@@gnoglyr7798 OK, let's see how much trolling is there in his statement.
One oil tanker is apparently worth at least $51,000,000. So 1 trillion divided by 51 million gives us over 19,607 oil tankers. According to MARAD’s latest Vessel Call Snapshot, 21,944 tankers 10,000 dwt or greater made port calls to the United States last year. Keep in mind that was for one year and large oil tankers can actually cost as much as $100 million. I would say that $1 trillion is nothing. You can also do yourself a favour and google Iraq oil production from when the USA invaded Iraq. I find it curious that from 2003 onwards Iraq's oil production doubled from1.3 - 2.3 million barrels of oil to 4.5 million barrels of oil per day! One oil tanker can carry between 70,000 to 190,000 barrels of oil. So if we work with conservative numbers, 2.3 million barrels per day gives us 839,500,000 per year. The USA controlled Iraq from 2003 till 2011 so with conservative figures that give you about 6,716,000,000 barrels of oil. If you look at the prices for barrels of oil between 2003 till 2011 you will find they fluctuated between $40 - $180 a barrel. So let's say on average of $60 a barrel you will get to about $402,960,000,000 for Iraqi oil produced while it was in the hands of the USA. It comes to about half a trillion dollars of oil and that is if I only look count from 2003 till 2011 and work with very cheap oil prices. The USA actually received oil imports from Iraq from 2000 till 2021 so we won't know how much they got or how much they paid for and how much they stole and how much they got at a very low discount price but $1 trillion does not sound that far fetch over this period.
@@thrillereighties8241 Thanks for a very good analysis. It's my personal guess that they paid for the vast majority. Interesting would then be "how much" they paid? I guess those numbers would be available to the public (though I'm not the one to go and search for them). But that the US in whichever way got $1 trillion worth of oil from Iraq would not surprise me.
Despicable! Send NATO in to Ukraine and end this horror. Better now than later!!!
Shouldn t be too hard for turkey / Nato to identify and stop those ships confiscating the cargo... Tehy should also do the same to all Russian ships basically blocking Russias blue Water access, that ll hurt more than just not selling computerchips to them. The fact those ships were registered well in advance tells everything. and if russia comlains thell them your not stealing the grain they didn t steal. But all the outrage seems to be more of a show, Mc Donalds closed its russia business, BK and KFC keep making rubels...
Food to the starving people of US occupied Syria. We can't have that...
What more do you expect from a bunch of greedy, soulless, criminals.
Yes you are absolutely right, The world can not either much EXPECT from a bunch of AMERICAN soulless criminals who STOLE OIL FROM Syria.
You are absolutely right
Haha. That describes 99% of all US politicians !!
Yeah. All of this was expected from the collective west in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan..
American exceptionism at its best, in these comments. Pointing the finger at others when you are guilty of all wars and theft.
They do not need to steal since they just annexed that part of Ukraine.
Which is internationally recognised as an illegal annexation.
You mean that I can just steal your purse, simply claim that "I annexed it" - and legally spend your money as my own?
@@larsrons7937 no, Ukraine is actually Russia. So they cannot steal from themselves.
@@wren2900 Oh, a Russian Imperialist? Pleased to meet you. The rest of the world don't share your view.
Special Operation to De-Nazifi Ukrainian grain silos.
Nothing will be done about it...
The details that soldier is giving are so specific it's easy for the Russian military to root him out. The man told the date, the facility he loaded from, the type of truck he drove and the time! Holy smokes!
Nobody knows if he actually was a Russian, ore all this is fake!
I was just thinking this, it wouldnt be hard to hold all 20 drivers until one gives up. Exposed a lot of identifiable information.
@WSJ do respond; did you take measures to protect your sources? Did you stage those interviews?
Tell Ukraine to do something about it and stop begging for help
How dumb do they have to be to mark all their trucks with Z? That would make it too easy for someone to Frame them? I would like to hear the logic behind marking the trucks.
The truck are being diverted from the army to run a thief of the grain and who knows what else they can get their grubby little hands on and they sale of those theifs will just disappear..... Putin filling his pockets ..... no one the wiser
You would have to enter Russian controlled territory to frame them. First you would need proof such as license plates etc. which they don't show. This "Z" today is used for so much I think it just means _"I belongZ to Putin, don't meZZ with me."_
Well those are the territory of the DPR, they voted to separate from Ukraine years ago. So technically its not Ukrainean grain
@@etiennen4136 There IS no DPR. It is a fictional creation of the invaders and occupiers, the same as Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Japanese to try to legitimize their stealing of Chinese territory after their 1931 invasion of Manchuria.
NATO and / or Western allies could've vapourized these ships in the Black Sea long ago but didn't, and they also allowed Russia to plant mines in the sea, which is an international waterway.. Why didn't they stop this at the beginning, let alone allow it to still continue now? things just don't add up here
It's simple: nuclear weapons in the hands of a sick leader.
Wow actual investigative journalism??? Well done!!! Great piece. Let's hope for peace for Ukrainians and Russians alike, as so many are suffering and more will suffer.
Very opposite. They didn't fight nazism during ww2. They joined them and caused major death casualties for their own country.
Clearly a job for Interpol
Awesome job investigating and clearly calling out these war crimes!
" Letters of Marque" Anyone ???
I like the way you think.
So what? That's occupied territory they have the right to claim those wheat as prize.same goes to the US when it claimed iraqi oil.
All Iraqi should be paid for
Stop it
When you still their central bank 🏦 reserve, what do you expect in return ?
Stole.
are you condoning Putin and his terrorist orcs stealing grain from Ukraine???
The reason Ukraine left the USSR and the USSR collapsed, same reason , same country doing it to them. 😡
The grain are from Kherson with the local population selling their produce to the Russians who either ship it to Russia or to country in need. Russia is not stealing the grain, they are buying it and then ship it out. Love the spin by the west and Ukraine that the grain is stolen. It was reported more than three months ago that the citizens of Kherson are doing business with Russia.
The local population is forced to sell it for a very low price. You think Russians are going to accept it if they refuse?
Why would they even put a license plate on the vehicle in the first place.
(US) United States call it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question...
Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
2014 - 2022 - 6 countries yet to verify.
Pakistan 2022 *
What is ironic is that none of those were U.S. Americans being "liberated" by U.S. Americans except maybe some students in Grenada, and we know it wasn't for the students, but the areas Russia is "liberating" are either majority Russian culturally or were part of Russia since Catherine the Great and were placed under Ukrainian administration by the Supreme Soviet in 1922.
Needed my glasses,thought your name was Ian Slow but perhaps that's more appropriate.
Two wrongs do not make a right
Russian apologists looove to use the crimes of the USA to justify today's crimes by Russia... How about no crimes no war no stealing grain? Why pick a side? What the US did was WRONG and what Russia is doing is also WRONG.
God. How dare Russian steal Ukrainian grain. British and American did not steal a single drop of oil from Iraq.
What are they complaining about? If they are getting grain out then Africa won't starve. Obviously this is grain from the occupied territories and the profits will go back to the peoples Republics of Lughansk and Donetsk to support the local Ukrainians, not Russia. Sounds like a reasonable plan to me.
if the US did this people would be saying "look stealing grain to support their imperialist war". but when Russia does it "definitely not stealing grain to support a non imperialist war, they're helping starving Africans and poor Ukranian farmers". you can't be serious lollol
These are Russia's own grains now.
I'm coming g to take your smart device. Then it will be mine , not yours
@StatikTiger I'll take the gun too
@StatikTiger When he comes, he'll make sure he has one too. Or maybe he'll just stand back at your property line, and launch a few mortar rounds in to denazify your smart device in a Special Internet Operation.
Time to begin some special torpedo operations...
So here's how it actually works. When you lose territory in a war, you don't magically get to keep the commodities from territory that you lost. Kherson grain is Russian grain. Zaparozhe grain is Russian grain. Donbass grain is Russian grain. Any grain shipped from the port of Sevastopol in the Russian federation is Russian grain. All the farmers in these areas have no problem selling to Russian buyers because if you're in one of these areas you can't buy anything but with RUbles anyway. Nobody is stealing anything. Want the grain? Win the war.
Did you conveniently miss the part where puppet officials gave orders to seize property? Doesn't sound like willful selling to me.
Half of Putin's war chest, the 300 billion us$ of his that are currently frozen in western bank. You just gave a good reason for western governments to go ahead a seize that money and give it to Ukraine instead. You just gave Putin's money to the western countries (I hope you are not allergic to poison).
bwahahahahahahha says the same people that spread propaganda about US stealing Iraqi oil, and helping Kurds steal Syrian oil with the SDF. Thats just the tip of the iceberg , I could write a whole novel with the stuff you Russian bootlicking bots complain about when US does it, but when Russia does it "err durr its war". This is why no rational and objective person takes you people seriously...
Russia hasn't annexed this part of Ukraine so far, just has troops on the ground so it's still Ukraine, DPR and LPR are not part of Russia either, at least on paper. So why is the Russian army involved in driving civilian trucks? Why is Russia even denying this if its thinks that it's legal and the grain belongs to them?
@@philippelorin2601 That's a very good assessment.
Did I saw an American semi truck in the hands of Russian army?
Once anyone captures any land, Content on that land belongs to them na....?
Give back Hawaii that was invaded and stolen.
The only question has to be ask why is turkey not stopping this criminal act?
WSJ should do some investigating work on Stolen Oil from Syria and nearby nations, by usa/nato. The world has been announcing it awhile back.
you should post something to YT on this, don't expect others to do work you should be doing - also please don't use US invented internet, or use devices with chips in them designed by US or its allies as so doing would make you an incredible hypocrite
Oh yes, I'll get right on being distracted from current events that are inconvenient for your faction.
@@antdavisonNZ don’t use apple products since Steve job was Syrian
@@rudiruttger it’s better to be brain washed
@@antdavisonNZ the US doesn't have allies. The chips being used in majority of phones are made by Asian companies not American nor European nations, your so called allies.
Every horrible thing can happen during war. All of that could have been prevented if both the parties agreed on each other's terms.
Russian terms- to destroy Ukraine and wipe it off the face of the earth.
Thank you WSJ. Can you do a video on oil from Middle East and Diamonds from Africa. May want to start in NY.
That not stealing, that what we call take profit while under water