Western Crop Traders’ Russia Pullback Signals More Control for Moscow
A combine harvester drives through a wheat field near Stavropol, Russia.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/BloombergShortly after the outbreak of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, a wave of foreign companies left Russia. Most Western crop traders stayed put while touting the importance of their role in keeping grain flowing from the vital Black Sea breadbasket.
But this week, their future has been quickly rewritten.