Russia’s agricultural sector is on the brink of collapse and even their own senators are now screaming about it in public. At today’s Federation Council session, Viktor Kress from Tomsk bluntly warned that without engine oils and fuel, the entire agro-industrial complex built over years will grind to a halt.
“We will lose everything,” he said, describing the situation as catastrophic. In classic Kremlin fashion, Valentina Matviyenko shot back: don’t exaggerate the drama.
The government is “working on it,” she claimed, though it will “take time. ”
Translation: Russia has burned through its fuel stocks to feed the meat grinder in Ukraine and now the breadbasket is running on fumes.
While Putin pours every last drop of diesel into tanks, artillery, and logistics for his bloody war, Russian farmers can’t harvest their own fields. The combine harvesters will sit silent.
This means Russia will struggle to feed itself and will almost certainly fail to meet its grain export contracts. The aggressor state is eating its own seed corn to sustain its insane imperial war.
Hunger is coming to the “great agricultural power” because every litre of fuel is reserved for killing Ukrainians instead of feeding Russians. Let them reap what they sow.
@LetsArmUKR This is a very descriptive, even iconic event.
Their own "anti-aircraft" is shooting at the oil tank which is very much empty. Most of the fuel was in gaseous form, otherwise it would not have exploded as it did, but would have flared up in a huge fireball.
@ShaunPinnerUA Guilty as charged.
Let's face it, now that more and more Russian officials, bankers, etc. are joining the chorus, we are getting closer to this happening.
They invaded us. They were “the magnificent empire”. We were the lowly “pig breeders”.
When we didn’t greet them with flowers and fought back, they called us “American proxies”.
When America said “it’s not our war”, they called us “war mongers”. As if we attacked them.
In the fifth year of bombarding our cities, they started calling their strikes “retaliation” and our strikes “provocation”.
Which doesn’t change the truth: their war is a geopolitical murder in plain view. It’s fascism pure.
“Never again” is now, again.