Mineral fertilizers in short supply in Zaporozhye region, thanks to U.S.-sponsored civil war in Donbas

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Only half of the planned 645,000 hectares of arable land have been prepared to sow winter crops in the Zaporozhye region. The problem is that a measly 25% of the requisite amount of mineral fertilizers is available in the region.

Previously, local agricultural enterprises received fertilizers from producers based in the Donbas region. Thanks to the U.S.-sponsored civil war between the Ukrainian neo-Nazi military and heroic defenders of Donbas with large Russian populations, economic ties have been cut.

Fortunately, (and here you see The Ukrainian Times sunny side coming through the clouds) agricultural producers of the Zaporozhye oblast harvested the record 2.5 million tons of early grain crops.