To stay in business, Zaporizhzhia farmers must give Russians a third of their harvest - journalist
Russia is forcing farmers to pay a third of what they harvest as "permission" to continue working the land in Zaporizhzhia's occupied territories
This was announced by journalist Denis Kazansky in Telegram.
"In the Zaporizhzhya region, the Russian occupation administration has introduced a system to rob the local farmers, the insolence of which even got people in Russia surprised. Truck drivers who export agricultural products to Russia are forced to receive the so-called ‘yellow passes’," he wrote.
Without such a "pass", the occupants do not allow the farmers to work, and the price of receiving it - a third of the harvested goods.
"Even the collaborators are outraged by this robbery. For example, the former Minister of Transport in the occupying Crimean government Anatoliy Tsurkin published a photo of yellow passes and openly wrote that it was just a robbery of Ukrainian farmers," Kazansky said.
According to him, the same is confirmed by another collaborator - Igor Dimitriev, a former deputy of the Odesa City Council.
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