• Moscow-backed official says Russia has begun shipping wheat to Turkey and Middle Eastern countries.
• Yevgeny Balitsky is head of the Moscow-installed military-civilian administration in the occupied areas.
• He did not specify which countries were allegedly being supplied with the wheat.

Russia has began transporting wheat to Turkey and Middle Eastern countries; according to a Moscow-backed official in Ukraine’s partially controlled southeastern territory of Zaporizhia.

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“We’re delivering the wheat through Russia, and the majority of the contracts have been made with Turkey,” Yevgeny Balitsky, the head of the Moscow-installed military-civilian government in the controlled territory, told Russia’s Rossiya 24 television station.  He didn’t say which Middle Eastern countries were supposed to be receiving the wheat.  Moscow, Ankara, and Kyiv all declined to comment on Balitsky’s claims.

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