🧵1/ #Ukraine’s Security Service @ServiceSsu & Prosecutor General’s Office @GP_Ukraine have charged Dmitry Patrushev — Deputy PM of the temporarily existing #Russia — for organizing mass theft of grain from occupied Ukrainian regions, a #warcrime under international law...
2/ According to the case, since the full-scale invasion, over 4 million tons of Ukrainian grain — worth more than ₴23 billion (≈ $550 million) — were looted and sent to #Russia under the coordination of Dmitry Patrushev. #WarCrimes #GrainTheft
3/ Dmitry Patrushev is the son of #Kremlin’s “gray cardinal” Nikolai Patrushev, longtime FSB chief & Security Council head, now #Putin’s aide. He secured his son's rise to Minister of Agriculture & later Deputy PM of #Russia.
4/ For context: an “SSU notice of suspicion” to high-ranking Russian #warcriminals sometimes swiftly turns into effective kinetic sanctions and “measures to bring them to #justice.”
5/ Reminder: On Dec 16, 2024, Ukraine’s SSU charged Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of #Russia’s NBC Protection Troops, in absentia. The next day, Dec 17, he was blown up near his home on Ryazansky Prospekt in #Moscow.
6/ Welcome to the club, #Patrushev Jr. — now among high-level #warcriminals and top contenders for the SSU’s 'grand prize'.
7/ Stealing millions of tons of Ukrainian grain from a nation that survived the #Holodomor in 1932–33 — a trauma etched in its genetic #memory — is a #warcrime of the highest order.
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