The mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov said on one of the TV channels that the Russians began to steal Ukrainian sunflower seeds, in addition, they put conditions to the farmers with the division of the harvest 70 to 30 in their favor.

According to the mayor, to date there is no clear information that anyone has gone to cooperate with the Russians.

After the Russians started stealing Ukrainian grain, they started appropriating berries, fruits and Melitopol cherries. A new "occupied" product was sunflower seeds.

"Just two days ago they started stealing seeds from the elevators and on an industrial scale they are trying to export from the city of Melitopol to the port in Berdyansk," Fedorov said.

The mayor of Melitopol added that the Rashisti have set conditions that they take 70% of the harvest and leave 30% to the farmers.