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Ukraine says will not demine Odessa port to export grain
AFP ^ | June 8, 2022

Posted on 06/09/2022 11:04:56 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Ukraine said Wednesday it would not demine waters around the Black Sea port of Odessa to allow for grain to be exported, citing the threat of Russian attacks on the city.

“The moment we clear access to the port of Odessa, the Russian fleet will be there,” spokesman for the regional administration Sergiy Bratchuk said in a video statement on social media.

He said that Russia “dreams of parachuting troops” into the city and that Moscow’s army “wants to attack” Odessa.

The Turkish and Russian foreign ministers were meeting in Ankara Wednesday to discuss the creation of security corridor to ship Ukrainian grain stuck in the war-torn country’s ports due to a Russian blockade.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was ready to facilitate the safe passage of Ukrainian grain.

Bratchuk said before the announcement that any exports from Odessa must be escorted “by NATO countries”.

Turkey has offered its services to accompany maritime convoys from Ukrainian ports.

Ukraine before the war was the world’s fourth largest exporter of wheat and supplied half of the world’s trade in sunflower seeds and oil.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned this week that the amount of grain blocked by the war could triple within several months.

(Excerpt) Read more at macaubusiness.com ...


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1 posted on 06/09/2022 11:04:56 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Soros wants the world to starve.


2 posted on 06/09/2022 11:05:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ukraine is trying to starve Africa to further its war aims.


3 posted on 06/09/2022 11:06:36 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Using starvation for leverage. 40 Billion will buy a lot of mines.


4 posted on 06/09/2022 11:09:43 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; JonPreston; Travis McGee; WMarshal
Looks like Pootie and the Russkis are gaining steam.

They were winning the ground war all along, but they were getting the cr@p beat out of them in the Media war.

Now they're starting to win the Media war, with the KievKlowns and their globalist puppeteers making decisions like this.

5 posted on 06/09/2022 11:09:45 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Go give Soros another hummer you globalist depopulation psychopath.


6 posted on 06/09/2022 11:10:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: gibsonguy
Using starvation for leverage. 40 Billion will buy a lot of mines.

36 billion.   winking face

Do I have to say it?

7 posted on 06/09/2022 11:13:06 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They know that Russia wants Odessa to finish the “special military operaion” and without port access, Ukraine is finished.


8 posted on 06/09/2022 11:14:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t follow the link between mines in the sea and “parachuting troops”. If Russia wants to parachute troops in, they don’t need the seas clear of mines.


9 posted on 06/09/2022 11:15:08 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: kiryandil

No you don’t l know


10 posted on 06/09/2022 11:15:56 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just take the grain to Russia and ship it from there. China and India are not idiots. They’ll buy it cheap and sell it to Europe for a nice profit.


11 posted on 06/09/2022 11:16:41 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe they can’t. It’s a lot harder to find and remove mines than to lay them.


12 posted on 06/09/2022 11:17:01 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: kiryandil

Because of inflation, it’s now 12% for the Big Guy.


13 posted on 06/09/2022 11:17:12 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: PGR88

Yep Odessa is set and match.


14 posted on 06/09/2022 11:17:16 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: GrumpyOldGuy

You’d have to be able to supply and support any troops you dropped in, and that would require ships using the port. Mining the port means that even if an airborne op seized the port facility itself, it would be unusable.


15 posted on 06/09/2022 11:17:51 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: FirstFlaBn; gibsonguy
Because of inflation, it’s now 12% for the Big Guy.

I think you may have started something here.

35.2 billion

16 posted on 06/09/2022 11:19:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JoSixChip

“Just take the grain to Russia and ship it from there. China and India are not idiots. They’ll buy it cheap and sell it to Europe for a nice profit”.

India is doing just that with Russian oil. They’re making huge profits.


17 posted on 06/09/2022 11:19:40 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s against international law.


18 posted on 06/09/2022 11:20:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican
So basically, it's "Ukraine" holding the world hostage.

I put scare quotes because they are clearly obeying someone off stage. Maybe the same folks who control Biden?

19 posted on 06/09/2022 11:24:57 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman
I put scare quotes because they are clearly obeying someone off stage.

Or perhaps they are just guarding against a Russian amphibious invasion.

20 posted on 06/09/2022 11:27:38 AM PDT by Petrosius
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