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.
On the contrary, the Ukrainians are players. Their opinions, those of the common people, matter. They showed that when they foiled the Russian coup. There is war now because they collectively want it, they are afraid, and angry, enraged.
People matter. Almost everything is the result of changes in the state of mind of the public, not in some “leader”, or even a conspiratorial cabal, however much these weirdos imagine their own significance. If people didnt matter then you Americans would be passive victims of your own leadership caste. You aren’t.
You get the last say as I work EDT.
You throw out a bunch of stuff I never said. Thanks for the look.
Have a nice evening.
i have wondered about this.
it is like when the most prominent family member starts rapidly lapsing into dementia. they cease to act rationally or even in their own apparent interests. maybe it is ok if they ruin themselves, but they seem intent on doing everything possible to ruin everything for everyone.
this country has lots of nukes and apparently an active biowarfare program, may have had one project escape (covid) and might be suspect with others out there.
historically you would expect the sneak attack from all sides to defang the increasingly erratic country in the room, but in this day and age that would leave them with assets still able to ruin the world. they seem to have a very good hold internally (and are quite possibly about to crack down on political dissidents), so there may not be an effective angle there.
huge problem.
As in my previous post, you have a wrong view of the world. It isnt run by plots. Plans dont work. “Leaders” aren’t. Everyone who aspires to “leadership” is winging it, running on expediency, and trying to get to the head of whatever parade he perceives is marching or forming.
There is a constant churn of “conspiracies”, everyone in power or hoping for power is constantly conspiring. But that is just surface vanity over the movement of larger forces.
Russia destroys civilian infrastructure and trade along with civilian lives while lying about destroying military hardware.
No T-72 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed at the Kyiv plant - Leshchenko
https://youtu.be/wWXRfiFe8K8
Neither Biden nor Putin can be trusted.
The MSM lies and tells the truth when it suits them.
The border has been ongoing for decades no matter who is in the White House or runs congress.
etc., etc.,...
Support the Ukrainians...but stop with the fantasy that they have their own culture. The Ukraine has been essentially political swampland with "fluid", ever-changing borders for centuries, including this one.
Please, stop romanticizing this sh*tshow. Time would be better spent exposing the puppetmasters and their true reasons for this conflict.
In the meantime, let the EU deal with trouble in their own backyard. Our own borders need more of our support than Ukraine's.
Accede to the wannabe “Evil Empire”?
History to repeat itself. If the russkians cannot beat them on the battlefield, they will starve the Ukrainian populace.
Says the United States is just seizing things from Russia as if there were US citizens an asset forfeiture, you know where you just drive to a place and if they pull you over and find out you have cash they just take it off you
The scientific terminology for this phenomenon is, I believe - 'Fecal Alchemy'.
As in: 'Government is a Fecal Alchemist'.
Er...
Belarus is landlocked.
Russia’s bombed the crap out of the rail infrastructure between the grain producing regions and the Belorussian border.
Russia’s also destroyed several depots and stores that would’ve been useful.
Russia might as well be proposing that Ukrainian grain can always go to Africa on pushbikes.
Of course not. That is why Russia must win and neo-Nazis, Biden regime and globalists, which represent the present evil empire, must lose.
You do you.
Or the Russians could stop their illegal war of conquest, pack up their crap, and go home.
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"Russia must win"?
First time in MY MANY DECADES on Earth, that I've seen those words.
Just change a definition from Ronald Reagan, and POOF!
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