The UK Will DNA-Test Grain. They Want To Prevent The Stolen Ukrainian Grain From Entering World Markets

The United Kingdom will test the DNA of grain - it wants to prevent stolen Ukrainian grain from entering world markets. The portal of the British station Sky News informed about it on Monday.

British Minister for Environment, George Eustice, told Sky News: "Russia is stealing grain from Ukrainian warehouses. We are able to take a test and find out the origin."

"The United Kingdom is a world leader in the ability to test the origin of grain, that is, DNA tests to determine the exact area in which the crop was grown. We offered this. We are putting this as a topic for discussion and we will set aside a sum of 1.5 million pounds (1.75 million euros) for this work," added Eustice.

Russia is looting Ukrainian grain exports, says Blinken

Moscow is denying Kiev's claims regarding the stealing of grain from granaries in Ukraine and taking it by ship to sell.

The reports are "credible," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on June 7. "There are credible reports that Russia is plundering Ukraine's grain exports to sell it for its own gain," Blinken told a conference of the US Department of Diplomacy on food security issues in connection with Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.

The US minister pointed out that Moscow is blocking Ukraine from exporting its own grain. According to him, about 20 million tons of wheat were stuck in silos near the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, as well as on ships literally filled with grain.

According to Blinken, the war has a "devastating effect on global food security" because Ukraine is one of the world's biggest exporters of grain.

Blinken said the Russian navy had prevented grain hauliers from leaving Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa in an effort to "blackmail" the world to support the Moscow-led war in Ukraine. According to Blinken, this is a deliberate strategy of Russian President Vladimir Putin to force the rest of the world to "retreat" and lift sanctions against Russia.