Ukrainian farmers worried as allies choke off export route

Petro Potapenko looks at the piles of grain on his farm and wonders if he will be able to export his production now that Ukraine’s western neighbours have imposed import restrictions.

The 34-year-old farmer bends down and runs his hands through the yellow and white grain kept in a warehouse in the village of Kypiachka, around 100 kilometres south of the capital Kyiv.