 Putin could face new war crime case. Russia was actively preparing to steal grain supplies and starve the Ukrainian population of food for months before Vladimir Putin ordered last year's invasion, according to new evidence compiled by human rights experts. The independent media outlet said this. It is noted that when Russian tanks did roll across the border on the 24th of February 2022 they deliberately targeted grain-rich areas and food production infrastructure first. The new report by international human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance found. Global Rights Compliance found that Russia's defense contractor began purchasing trucks to transport grain as well as three new 170-meter bulk carrier cargo ships as early as December 2021, evidence of advance planning for the pillage of Ukrainian food resources on an unprecedented scale. Russia began commandeering Ukrainian farms within less than a week of its invasion and at its peak was exporting 12,000 tons of grain per day from across occupied territories. The evidence of a highly coordinated level of pre-planning will be provided by the International Criminal Court and Global Rights Compliance hopes it will lead to a first international prosecution against Putin for the war crime of salvation as a method of warfare. Russia not only deployed a multi-pronged approach by besieging civilian populations destroying critical infrastructure but it also pre-planned the seizure and pillage of agricultural commodities in an insidious plan. Moscow has sparked a global food crisis and attacked Ukraine's agriculture sector as a warfare tactic. Global Rights Compliance told the Independent. The grain pillage from Ukraine so far has an estimated market value of $1 billion per year.