"Putin perceives the war personally." Ambassador to Lebanon Igor Ostash - about three dictator defeats by February 24 and evidence of grain thefts by Russia

In an interview with Radio HB, the diplomat said, when the Kremlin head dreams of capturing Ukraine, whether they give his hand to Russian diplomats in Lebanon and what evidence of Ukrainian grain theft was collected in the Middle East. - The chief prosecutor of Lebanon abolished the order of arrest of the vessel, on which, on the accusations of Ukraine, there is stolen flour and barley from the temporarily occupied Berdyansk.

Lebanon's chief prosecutor claims that he did not find a criminal offense. What is the explanation? - I will start from the fact that it was really an event that stirred the entire Lebanon, the entire Middle East, because the event was extraordinary. We probably managed to detain a ship with stolen grain for the first time in recent months. This is a very big victory, believe me. We managed to arrest this ship, almost take samples for examination.

And most importantly - to obtain proof that it was a ship with stolen flour from Ukraine, in particular from Crimea. We were not allowed to the ship for three days, we opened it yesterday. This is very important when you catch a thief's hand. Here we caught it yesterday. We saw bags - eight thousand tons of flour and almost two thousand tons of barley. These bags are very clearly written: Krasnogvardian Elevator.

That is, this grain was ground into Krasnogvardiysk, in the Crimea, in the Ukrainian territory. This is an indisputable proof that they came here with a stolen cargo. Also proof is that this vessel was loaded not to the port of the Caucasus, as it was submitted in the Cargo Manifesto, but in the port of Feodosia. We got satellite satellite images from three countries, three countries helped us and gave pictures from the port of Feodosia. We had indisputable evidence.

At the last moment, they realized that it smelled fried. It was not our defeat, it was an escape. In fact, they tried to make money in Lebanon, sell it $ 650, as they wrote in their statement, instead of selling in Syria, where the price was $ 600. We had a very serious position. Lebanon's position was headed by the Lebanon Infrastructure Minister himself, who is responsible for both the port and customs. They made us maximum obstruction and influenced the situation.

Despite this, we managed to arrest and take samples, and prove that it is stolen flour. In the criminal proceedings of our office of the Prosecutor General there is a testimony of the Association of the affected farmers that they had stolen grain in Berdyansk and transported it to Krasnogvardiian, where it was ground. There is a tracking, there are trucks, apparently, Iveco, which carried this grain and gave us real trekking, as it moved from Kherson to Krasnogvardy.