NEW DELHI—India said it would ban wheat exports, in a move that will add to global inflationary pressure and further strain global food supplies that have been disrupted by the war in Ukraine. “The food security of India, neighboring and other vulnerable countries is at risk,” India’s Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a
Videos shared online and eyewitness accounts attest to an emerging Russian offensive tactic in Ukraine: the deliberate targeting of agricultural equipment, farms and grain supplies through shelling and looting. The attacks on Ukraine, known as “the breadbasket of Europe”, have been precise enough to constitute “very deliberate attempts by Russia to curtail Ukraine’s agricultural production”,
Russian forces have riddled Ukrainian fields with mines and destroyed equipment in areas they once occupied, in what returning farmers and the Kyiv government allege is a campaign by Moscow to hobble the country’s agricultural industry. Russia’s invasion already has decimated shipments of corn, wheat and sunflower oil from what was until recently one of
