"The war between Russia and Ukraine has already driven up gas prices. Now, the price for wheat has also surged to its highest level.
Wheat price is now at a record $12.94 per bushel, up 70 percent over the last month, as measured by a futures …
"The war between Russia and Ukraine has already driven up gas prices. Now, the price for wheat has also surged to its highest level.
Wheat price is now at a record $12.94 per bushel, up 70 percent over the last month, as measured by a futures contract on the Chicago Board of Trade. The conflict has already curbed exports of crops, triggering shortages and setting the stage for worsening food inflation.
Surging bread costs have been a major source of instability and violence in the past. But more recently, soaring food costs have been cited as an important contributor to the wave of instability known as the Arab Spring that swept the Middle East in 2011.
Russia and Ukraine are two of the biggest wheat producers in the world. Russia alone produces 11 percent of wheat and is its largest export. Together, Russia and Ukraine supply over a quarter of the world’s wheat, which is also sold in some of the poorest countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Egypt, which is the world’s largest wheat importer, still gets roughly 60 percent of its wheat from Russia and 25 percent from Ukraine.
Ethiopia, which has become a major importer in recent years, found their farming disrupted by the war as well. The country’s government bought wheat in bulk to provide subsidized food for the population, but can no longer afford to do so enough to satisfy domestic demand. (Related: Ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict pushing global economy closer to collapse.)"
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-10-price-of-wheat-soars-to-record-high.html
Russian and U.S. officials alike have provided considerable fuel for a claim about bioweapons allegedly being developed in Ukraine that was dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory exactly five minutes ago and is now shaping up to be far more substantial than we were condescendingly told by the establishment media’s sainted “fact-checkers.”
On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, claimed that Moscow has uncovered evidence of a U.S.-backed bioweapons program in Ukraine that includes the development of plague and anthrax.
“Recently found documents show that components of biological weapons were made in Ukraine’s laboratories, with funding from [the U.S. Department of Defense], in direct proximity to Russia,” a tweet from the U.K.’s Russian Embassy stated.
https://flagandcross.com/russia-claims-ukraine-developed-biological-weapons-with-help-from-the-united-states/
