Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian city of Melitopol have stolen nearly $ 5 million in agricultural vehicles from a John Deere dealership and sent some of them more than 700 miles to Chechnya, CNN reported, only to find that they had been used by a remote control system. prevented thieves from opening the equipment. The dealership stole two complex combine harvesters, valued at $ 300,000 each, as well as another 27 tractors, seeders and additional equipment. However, the equipment’s remote access technology, which allows GPS tracking and remote control of some of the vehicles, has prevented their use. “When the intruders drove the stolen combine harvesters into Chechnya, they realized they could not even turn them on because the harvesters were locked remotely,” a source familiar with the incident told CNN. While the equipment could still be discarded and sold for spare parts by Russian troops, the source said he is currently idle on a farm near Grozny. Melitopolis – a city in the southeast of the country – has been under Russian occupation since early March. Other recent reports from the area indicate that invading troops looted a museum of gold artifacts and stole hundreds of thousands of tons of grain from the area.
