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.
Yahoo! News
The New York Times
Guerrilla Attacks Signal Rising Resistance to Russian Occupation By Marc Santora
Mon, June 6, 2022
The Kremlin-backed mayor of the Ukrainian town of Enerhodar was standing on his mother’s porch when a powerful blast struck, leaving him critically wounded. A week later, about 75 miles away, a car packed with explosives rocked the office of another Russian-appointed official in the occupied southern city of Melitopol.
In a rarity, both Ukrainian and Russian officials confirmed the blasts, which struck deep inside Russian-controlled territory. And both explosions appeared to be the work of what analysts say is a growing partisan resistance movement — one fueled by increasingly brutal Russian repression and worsening humanitarian conditions.
By their very nature, the clandestine activities of any insurgency are murky and often impossible to verify independently. It is as much in the interest of Ukrainians to play up talk of rebellion as it is for Russians to play it down.
But the explosion that injured the Enerhodar mayor, Andrei Shevchik, is one of more than a dozen high-profile attacks in recent weeks that analysts say indicate increased partisan activity aimed at Russian occupation forces in the Kherson and Zaporizka regions of southern Ukraine.
Stretching tens of thousands of square miles from eastern Ukraine to Russian-occupied Crimea and into Russia itself, those regions were among the first to fall under Russian control following the invasion of Ukraine in late February. Many of their towns and cities were spared the wholesale destruction unleashed by Russian forces elsewhere. In recent days, Ukrainian forces have launched a series of counterattacks in the regions.
In the past month, Ukrainian partisans claim, insurgents have attacked Russian trains and killed dozens of Russian soldiers, as well as supporting the Ukrainian military’s counterattacks. Their claims are impossible to independently verify. The partisans also have established a virtual Center of National Resistance, which features instructions for things like setting up ambushes and what to do if arrested.
Alexander Motyl, a historian and Ukraine expert at Rutgers University, has scoured publicly available statements about possible insurgent activity. He said that the data suggests it is growing.
“It is, of course, possible that Ukrainian special forces may have been involved in some of these actions; it is also likely that the data are incomplete,” he wrote for the online journal 1945. “Even so, the number of guerrilla actions is impressive and bespeaks a trend toward ever-greater partisan activity.”
The explosion in Enerhodar and the intrigue that has followed illustrate how Russian efforts to combat insurgency might be deepening the resolve of the partisans.
Enerhodar had a population of 50,000 before the war and was home to many of the people who work at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest. Residents erected wooden barricades on the road leading into the town in the first week of the war but they proved no match for Russian tanks. Russia took control of the town and named Shevchik mayor.
Then came the blast, which Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported May 22, citing an emergency services source in the city. Ukrainian officials confirmed the incident from their own sources and said that it appeared that the mayor was targeted.
Dmytro Orlov, whom Ukraine recognizes as the legitimate mayor of Enerhodar, wrote on Telegram that Russians are trying to tackle the budding insurgency by targeting regular civilians. He said that “the number of abductions of locals has increased significantly” since the explosion involving Shevchik, and that the humanitarian crisis has worsened.
There is almost no Ukrainian currency left in Enerhodar, Orlov said, adding that since the occupied forces are TRYING to make Russia’s ruble the only currency, prices for everyday household products have climbed “sky-high.” Reports of Russian soldiers LOOTING mostly abandoned homes are on the rise, while COMMUNICATIONS in and out of the CITY have been severed, he said.
All this, Orlov said, will cause the ranks of the partisans to grow.
“Even those citizens who had a NEUTRAL ATTITUDE to the invaders in the beginning are starting to show DISSATISFACTION with the RUSSIAN OCCUPATION ,” he said.
It appears Orlov is not alone in thinking that partisans will continue to pose a threat to Russia’s proxies.
Shevchik’s Russia-appointed replacement, Ruslan Kirpichov, erected concrete blast walls outside the hotel where he is living, according to Energoatom, the Ukrainian state enterprise responsible for operating the town’s power stations. It posted a photo of the barricades on its Telegram channel.
Lighten up, Francis.
“RUSSIA took out the grain teriminal AFTER Putin said grain shipments would be allowed. Putin has repeatedly shown he can not be trusted.”
TRUE,
PUTIN LIED... NO SURPRISE!
Might have been a crass statement but you could not be more wrong.
The USA should stay OUT of war that does not involve the west.
Russia is closer to that wall the NWO is demanding.
If you are a supporter of the NWO, just say so.
Zelenski’s advisor:
“Until we receive weapons in full amount, until we strengthen our positions, until we push them back as far as possible to borders of Ukraine, no point in holding negotiations.”
Unless this isn't about "starving people", but about "Media optics" and saving face.
How better to show the EU kleptocrats and the US neocons for the lying hypocritical scum that they really are?
I am a supporter of the Ukrainians. They have their country and their culture and they want to keep them. They deserve liberty, and justice against the evil done unto them.
I also support the peoples of Eastern Europe against the ever present threat of Russia.
And none of these actual, real people deserve to be dismissed by specious slogans like “NWO”. Most of them disagree and oppose the wokist policies of the EU - ref the Poles. But the Poles and etc. dont seem to exist either.
But these real people dont seem to exist for you. I have news - they do. I met a bunch of them, Ukrainians and Poles, in Barcelona, as my niece works there on resettlement of refugees.
My opinion - the situation is an inverse, unbalanced monomaniacs like you are fictional (or should be), as the Poles and Ukrainians and etc are real.
“There will be far more dead Ukrainians if they do surrender,”
Exactly.
The Muscowite khanate will slaughter them for resisting the horde
Russia needs to unconditionally surrender and withdraw.
But as long as Putin is around, he will still send young Russian boys to die, either in fighting or being shot in the back by Putin’s Chechens.
Because this is a prelude to potentially something larger.
Think of nazi Germany chopping off the Sudeten from Czechoslovakia.
This is exactly the same.
If the allies had stopped Hitler in 1938, millions of lives would have been saved.
It is not our fight.
I support people to have a free life.
The Ukraine has been a laundry machine for the western leaders for some time.
Yes, this was egged on by the west after Trump was ousted by a false election.
Those behind this are desperate for a NWO.
Chamberlain could have done that.
LOL
Putin can’t be trusted. But Biden CAN be trusted?
The MSM is all of a sudden telling the truth?
The Southern border is secure?
the oil companies can build new refineries and do more petroleum exploration?
Please understand that Biden stepped in a pile of sh!T again. And now he is wiping his shoe on the US taxpayer. Well, Biden’s handlers are doing it. But I repeat myself.
Putin has been more honest than Biden in this whole thing. And Russia has a legitimate interest in the outcome. Biden & Son only have an interest so long as it does not cost them anything personally.
Do you get it NOW?
Remember the Pelosi House “Impeached” Trump for asking Zelensky to report impropriety in the Ukraine.
The “laundry machine”, to the extent that it even mattered in a world full of “laundry machines” (Panama, Cyprus, London, China, New York!) means nothing vs 40+ million people.
They arent their corrupt banksters. Are you your own corrupt banksters? Would you like someone dismissing your existence because of your own criminals in Washington?
“Egged on” means “permitted” by obvious weakness and collusion (with Putin!) on the part of western leaders. They were moving to license Putins coup de main on Ukraine. But it didnt work because of those inconvenient Ukrainians. The public outrage across Europe forced them to switch their policy in a matter of days. The most amusing were the Germans, twirling on a dime. Currently you still have that slime creature Macron trying to revive the original plan.
Its still the people vs the powerful. But to see that you need to see the people.
This could have been stopped before it started.
Trump tried and he was attacked for it.
Don’t be a patsy.
And... that was an act of your corrupt US Congress grasping at straws to create a case out of nothing. What did any Ukrainian have to do with that? The whole country of Ukraine was just a plot device in an American political drama.
Call up your “Reset” button from Hillary.
It has been in the works for some time.
President Trump tried to show what was going on.
It takes a knowledge of world events and a keen memory to see it. It sure as hell didn’t start in the last 5 years.
It has been the goal of the WEF for probably 50.
Pull the trigger while Dementia Joe eats his pudding.
The Ukrainians are just pawns.
The WEF and NWO types could care less about their life.
They are ruthless people.
Dragging our military assets into this is disgusting.
It certainly could have been stopped before it started, or it would never have come up at all, had Trump been in charge. But it did, and now it is a major war. You are the “patsy”, still trying to dismiss it as an American soap opera, a foreign fiction. It isnt. It wont go away.
Once wars start they change everything. Everything that went before is irrelevant vs the completely new issues the existence of war creates - thats the point of Shakespeare’s “cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.” War is chaos.
Go blame Biden if you like, or rather the US elite conspiracy that erected that mindless zombie figurehead. They certainly deserve it. But that is meaningless. You have this, now, to deal with.
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