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Russian oligarch Alexander Tkachov's company, Agrocomplex, has seized around 400,000 acres of farmland belonging to three Ukrainian agribusinesses in Ukraine's Russian-occupied territories, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Tkachov, an ally of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, is a former agriculture minister and governor of Russia's Krasnodar Krai.
The Ukrainian authorities are investigating the theft of farmland by Tkachov’s company, according to the newspaper.
“Russia is taking over the economy in occupied territories and using that control to help control the whole area,” Dmytro Skorniakov, CEO of Ukrainian agricultural company HarvEast Holding, said.
HarvEast has lost 100,000 acres in Russian-occupied parts of Donetsk Oblast, while Nibulon, another agribusiness firm, has lost 50,000 acres, and Agroton has accused Agrocomplex of stealing 250,000 acres.
As of Nov. 10, an estimated 2.8 million metric tons of grain and 1.2 million tons of oil seeds with a combined value of $1.87 billion had been destroyed or stolen due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the Kyiv School of Economics.
Research using satellite imagery from NASA’s food security and agriculture program showed that Russia had collected almost 6 million tons of wheat from occupied territories, Bloomberg reported on Dec. 3.
Swiss Prosecutor General Stefan Blaettler said in July that selling looted raw materials could constitute a war crime.
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Sunday, June 14
The number includes 1,440 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Ukraine struck a chemical plant in Russia's Tula Oblast, an oil depot in Yaroslavl Oblast, and other targets overnight on June 14, social media channels reported.
Saturday, June 13
Sweden scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian military aircraft operating near its airspace over the Baltic Sea in two separate incidents, authorities said June 13.
Viktor Orban was re-elected leader of Hungary's Fidesz party on June 13, securing another one-year term despite the party's defeat in April's elections.
U.S. President Donald Trump will participate in a working session with President Volodymyr Zelensky during the G7 summit in France next week.
The mission verified at least 274 civilian deaths and 1,763 injuries during the month, the highest monthly casualty toll recorded in the past four years.
We followed Ukraine’s 24th Mechanized Brigade on the "road of life" between the front-line cities of Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka.
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Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on June 12, according to a post shared by presidential communications adviser Margo Martin on X.
Ukraine's Da Vinci 1st Separate Assault Regiment later confirmed strikes on the Chonhar road bridge, a railway bridge, a pontoon crossing, and military trucks in the area.
Russian forces launched 118 long-range attack drones, including Shahed-type drones, against Ukraine overnight, the Air Force reported.
Regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said drones targeted the Temryuk district, where a fire broke out at the facility.
The number includes 1,310 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 225,019 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.
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"We will open the cluster on fundamentals; the backbone of the accession process," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on June 12. "It covers the core values and principles on which the EU is built, from the rule of law to strong democratic institutions."
