Posted on 06/06/2022 8:10:43 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Over the weekend, Russia also destroyed a major Ukrainian grain export terminal in Mykolaiv (southern Ukraine). Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s grain infrastructure came after last week saying it was open to allowing grain exports via “humanitarian corridors” from Ukrainian ports has heightened global supply concerns.
Tensions between Russia and the West are escalating as Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow would strike new targets if the U.S. supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine, according to Russian state media.
The news comes as Russia attacked Kyiv this weekend. The airstrikes followed days after the U.S. announced $700 million in aid to Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin warned the West against sending more arms. Meanwhile, the U.K. will also send Ukraine longer-range missiles. Delivering new arms to Kyiv would only "drag out the armed conflict for as long as possible," Putin said yesterday.
Over the weekend, Russia also destroyed a major Ukrainian grain export terminal in Mykolaiv (southern Ukraine). Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s grain infrastructure came after last week saying it was open to allowing grain exports via “humanitarian corridors” from Ukrainian ports has heightened global supply concerns.
In Ukraine, some of the "fiercest battles" are being fought in the eastern city of Severodonetsk, the region’s top official said today, adding that the evacuation of 15,000 civilians remains impossible because of intense fighting.
Putin claims Russia's actions in Ukraine "have nothing to do" with the looming global energy and food crisis and has instead blamed Western economic policies. He also blamed European countries for not listening "to our urgent requests to preserve long-term contracts for the supply [of natural gas]" — another factor that he said led to inflation.
U.S. must sanction enablers of Russia’s war on Ukraine, Senators say. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are asking for sanctions against “lower-tier enablers” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The senators — including Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) — wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, asking her to take into account a list of 6,000 Russian officials and regime enablers compiled by Anti-Corruption Foundation of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, visited two cities close to the frontline in the Donbas region. He travelled to Lysychansk, just south of Severodonetsk, where Ukrainian forces are engaged in heavy fighting, and also to Soledar. The Ukrainians claim to have repulsed seven attacks across the whole of the region over the past 24 hours Market Impacts
Ukraine is struggling to export its grain. Before Russia’s invasion, around 98% of Ukraine’s grain exports would flow from ports on the Black Sea. But those ports have been shut by a Russian naval blockade, and warehouses, rail yards and other key export infrastructure have been targeted and damaged by Russian attacks. Despite the war, Ukraine’s farms are expected to produce around 30 million tons of wheat, corn and other food commodities this year, the Wall Street Journal reports (link).
Traders and farmers, with the support of the Ukrainian government and neighboring nations, are seeking alternative routes to export those grains to stave off global food shortages and relieve soaring prices. But the new routes are longer, often backlogged and more expensive. The challenge is complicated by stretched infrastructure and continued Russian attacks on bridges and railways.
Ukraine exports
U.S. Warns Russia Trying to Sell Stolen Grain from Ukraine
The U.S. has warned the Kremlin is trying to profit by selling stolen wheat from Ukraine to drought-stricken countries in Africa. The New York Times reports in mid-May, the U.S. sent an alert to 14 countries, mostly in Africa, that Russian cargo vessels were leaving ports near Ukraine laden with what a State Department cable described as “stolen Ukrainian grain.”
The cable identified, by name, three Russian cargo vessels it said were suspected of transporting it. The American alert about the grain has only sharpened the dilemma for African countries, many already feeling trapped between East and West, as they potentially face a hard choice between benefiting from possible war crimes and displeasing a powerful Western ally, and on the other, refusing cheap food at a time when wheat prices are soaring, and people are starving.
President Retard is making things worse 🤪
Mission accomplished
He has the reverso Midas touch - everything turns to crap 💩
...but at least biden saved us from trump, who almost got us into ww iii...
Never underestimate him. I am sure the countries in Africa said, we will starve to death, we don’t want this stolen grain.
Demented Joe’s war and Demented Joe’s fault.
“ President Retard is making things worse”
What would you like him to do ?
“The U.S. has warned the Kremlin is trying to profit by selling stolen wheat from Ukraine to drought-stricken countries in Africa. The New York Times reports in mid-May, the U.S. sent an alert to 14 countries, mostly in Africa, that Russian cargo vessels were leaving ports near Ukraine laden with what a State Department cable described as “stolen Ukrainian grain.”
Those countries don’t care who is selling the grain. They are only glad it’s there and for sale.
The only interest the world has in this grain is that it ships and is sold.
It's another hint that we need to stop sending weapons to Ukraine and that Ukraine needs to unconditionally surrender. Continuing the war any further will simply result in more dead Ukrainians, more loss of territory and worsen the food crisis worldwide.
Ukrayinska Pravda
Russian occupiers admit taking wheat from Ukrainian region of Kherson to Russian Federation
DANA HORDIYCHUK, Ekonomichna Pravda - MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022, 13:05
The Russian occupational government of Kherson Oblast announced that the process of exporting wheat from the region to the Russian Federation has begun.
This is reported by Russian propaganda media outlet RBK referencing the collaborator Kiril Stremousov, appointed by Russian occupiers as the deputy head of Kherson Oblast.
This information refers to the past crop of wheat that has been in storage in Kherson Oblast.
Stremousov speaks about the start of harvesting winter grains from 20 June, which will also be exported to Russia. “We have a place for storing [the new crop], however, of course, a lot of grain is here” – he said. Russian occupiers claim that the grain is allegedly being sold to Russia. As the Ekonomichna Pravda reported earlier, Russian occupiers are blackmailing Ukrainian farmers, buying their produce for peanuts and robbing grain reserves.
In addition, according to Stremousov, Russian occupiers plan to export sunflower seeds for oil production to local and Russian plants.
Background:
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy reports that Russian occupiers have stolen about 500,000 tons of wheat - one third of the amount stored in the occupied territories.
For a long time now, reports of theft of Ukrainian grain have been coming from all temporarily occupied regions. For example, in Luhansk Oblast, the Russians confiscated or destroyed wheat that amounted to three years of grain needs of the region’s residents. This is the only oblast where planting has not started.
In the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, grain is disappearing from ports, and the occupiers blackmail farmers and demand them to give up 70% of their harvest to the occupiers.
It is known that in Kherson Oblast Russian occupiers robbed a grain silo and exported 20,000 tons of grain to Russia, and in mid-April they appropriated the land and property of the enterprises “Agro-Spivdruzhnist” and “Spivdruzhnist-South.”
https://news.yahoo.com/russian-occupiers-admit-taking-wheat-101931085.html
As I see each of these stories, along with what’s happening here, I fear there are representatives from several nations (including close American allies) having meetings with others in far off places...
... quietly coming to the realization and understanding that one entity has become the greatest nemesis on earth, and how to remove such an albatross from around their necks.
I’m sure the reader understands. I’ll leave it at that.
........”Continuing the war any further will simply result in more dead Ukrainians, more loss of territory and worsen the food crisis worldwide”.........
But obvious Ukraines Leadership and those pulling the strings otherwise don’t appear to agree and are more than willing to continue this regardless of the piles of corpses and destrtuction it’s leaving in it’s wake.
Well, he could "de-occupy" the White House - that would make a lot of folks happy.
Let's go, Brandon!
;>)
What would you like him to do ?
Just sit at the beach and eat your ice cream.
He is a patsy.
The destruction of the USA under the guise of the NWO is going to be very violent IMHO. People do not appreciate their entire livelihood being destroyed.
RUSSIA took out the grain teriminal AFTER Putin said grain shipments would be allowed. Putin has repeatedly shown he can not be trusted. Why pretend to trust him?
Not our war.
Biden decided it is.
Bad things will happen.
This is, as usual from you, a whisper of evil. There will be far more dead Ukrainians if they do surrender, because creatures like you will kill them by the hundreds of thousands-at least. And there will be 20million plus refugees in Europe.
You really are a monster. The devil speaks through you.
How about open up US energy sources?
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