Ukraine Intelligence Warns Russia Is Preparing Attacks Across the Food Supply Chain

Russia is preparing strikes against food-industry facilities across Ukraine, including both Ukrainian and foreign-owned enterprises, Ukrinform reported on November 10, citing a source in Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate.

According to the intelligence source, potential targets include facilities used to store and process agricultural products, including grain elevators and warehouses.

Russia has repeatedly struck Ukraine’s food production and logistics infrastructure, with attacks damaging warehouses, processing plants, retail distribution networks, and foreign-owned facilities. By September, Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi reported that roughly 90% of food logistics operated by major retail chains had been destroyed, contributing to temporary shortages and purchase limits in some supermarkets.

The source added that Russia is also preparing attacks against sunflower and other vegetable oil production sites, dairy and butter plants, meat-processing facilities, poultry farms, and other food-industry enterprises.

“Russia’s goal is to destabilize the situation in Ukraine by striking food security and then using an information campaign to demoralize society, inflict significant damage on our country’s economy, and reduce foreign-currency revenues to the Ukrainian budget,” the source told Ukrinform.

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According to Ukrinform, Ukrainian intelligence also assesses that Moscow wants to damage Ukraine’s food industry in order to increase Russia’s share of agricultural exports.

The source stated that Russia is seeking to expand agricultural exports in particular to markets in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

The warning comes one day after a Russian strike hit a food warehouse in Odesa supplying kindergartens and schools, killing three people and wounding three others. The attack sparked a fire at the facility as emergency crews worked to contain the damage.

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