On August 15, 2022, it became known that Russian invaders stole about 200,000 tons of crops from the fields in the eastern regions of Ukraine, which are cultivated by the agricultural group HarvEast.
Source: HarvEast Chief Executive Officer Dmitry Skornyakov
50,000 tons of the agricultural holding’s crops were transported by trucks to Russia, in particular from the villages of Mangush and Mykilske near Mariupol in the Donetsk region (east of Ukraine).
According to HarvEast estimates, about 150,000 tons more were harvested by the occupiers from the captured fields, which the agricultural group no longer controls.
“The biggest loss is this year’s harvest. In June they started to harvest our grain, and we don’t have access to this land, ” HarvEast Chief Executive Officer Dmitry Skornyakov said in an interview.
As Skornyakov noted, the HarvEast lands are located quite close to the territory of Russia, so the grown crop will most likely be transported by trucks to Russia.
Before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, there were about 1.5 million tons of grain in the elevators of the occupied Ukrainian regions.
Before the invasion of the Russian Federation, HarvEast was engaged in the cultivation of cereals and legumes on 127 thousand hectares, dairy farming (three farms, almost 3 thousand heads of cattle), production of compound feed and seed crop production. Because of the war, the agricultural holding lost 90,000 hectares, or 70% of its land bank in the Donetsk region (Ukraine’s east).
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