1. Ukraine doesn’t have a fleet... Mebe those Uke boats that laid down the mines can go back out and collect the mines.
2. How is Ukraine supposed to start raising sunken ships? Mebe they can use some of their 40 Billion USD and rent some equipment.
“if someone wants to resolve the problem of exporting Ukrainian grain, if this problem exists at all, please use the simplest way – through Belarus” Putin threw down 5 alternate ways to move the grain
NATO and the US could reverse course and solve this problem
>”Mebe they can use some of their 40 Billion USD”
Everyone posting here is a “political junkie”. Thus everyone knows (or should know) that America is giving Ukraine weapons and ammo that have been already bought not money!
It’s counted as money for accounting purposes.
Yet you can’t just replace it! Why don’t we feed the widows and orphans while Ukraine. Well, Ukraine got artillery and ammo so one could say we can’t shoot these widows and orphans because we gave it all away, but that wouldn’t be true.
America gave Ukraine 94 artillery pieces and still has ~5,000 left. Whatever your pet cause, if it can be solved by an artillery salvo, then giving these 94 to Ukraine isn’t stopping it!
1. Russia would have to stop shooting at anything Ukraine tries to move near the ports.
2. Why should Ukraine spend a cent of anything on raising sunken ships? America never did. Nor has Russia. Both countries still have rusting hulls all over the place. Besides, it’s a troll demand. Funny how Russian ships loafed with looted Ukrainian grain have been sailing around without difficulty, trying to find a country corrupt enough to buy it WITHOUT waiting for refloated shipwrecks.
The five alternative ways are also troll offerings.
Ukraine has its tractors hitting mines which Russian forces have been deploying by the thousands into the crop fields. Any chance of Russia helping with that cleanup? They caused that problem. Can’t move grain if they can’t even harvest it.
When they do harvest it, they have to store it. Russia’s still blowing that infrastructure up.
Then it needs to be moved. What with? Russia nicked a shedload of vehicles, bombed the rail tracks, blew up the factory that makes grain shipping containers, blew up the processing plants.
Rusfia could reverse its course, stop blowing up the agricultural infrastructure, and solve these problems. One diktat, one decision, time to deliver 1 hour. Far quicker than expecting NATO or the USA to do it.
Or are you reckoning America needs to send big agricultural machinery to Ukraine without Russia lifting a finger? By the time it gets there, the grain will be spoiled.
I thought you guys were against America spending more of its money on unnecessarily solving problems that aren’t of its making and don’t benefit the USA. This mess is made in Russia, so get Russia to fix it.