Inside Russia’s drone campaign to throttle Ukraine’s grain exports | Dispatch

On Ukraine’s once sleepy frontier with Romania, you can hear the Shahed drones long before they explode. For the first 18 months of the war, Ukrainian Bessarabia — a remote landscape of marshes, lazy rivers and burial mounds favoured by holidaymakers and naturalists — was largely untouched by conflict. Hundreds of miles from the nearest ground-fighting, it became a destination for refugees attracted by safety, a balmy southern climate, and the general air of peace and normality on the waterfront. Now, it has become a frontline in Russia’s attempts to throttle Ukraine’s last major grain-export route. Read the full dispatch here: Subscribe to The Telegraph with our special offer: just £1 for 3 months. Start your free trial now: Get the latest headlines: and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture. #ukraine #grain #russia #worldeconomy