The cargo trapped for months at the Dutch port of Rotterdam was so precious that the United Nations intervened to mediate its release. Russian fertiliser billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, the founder of EuroChem Group AG, argues the European Union's sanctions regime has clogged up trade to such an extent that it'll have caused a total curtailment of fertiliser shipments by some 13 million tons by the one-year mark of the war on Feb. That's not much comfort to Moses Mikayeli, a farmer from Chikusa Village just outside Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, who said in late November that he saw "no hope" of receiving the subsidised fertiliser promised by the government