Ukraine is sitting on years’ worth of sunflower oil that it can no longer bottle, and warehouses full of grain that cannot be processed into cereal, Mr. Kachka said. Bombing in the eastern city of Kharkiv destroyed several food-and-drink packaging factories, as well as meat-processing plants, he added.
Targeting food supplies is one of Russia’s ways to terrorize civilians and break their will, said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Russia has denied targeting civilians.
