Posted on 07/13/2023 11:41:55 AM PDT by elpadre
n July 2022 the UN General Secretary and Turkey brokered a deal with the Russian Federation under which the Ukraine would be allowed to export grain by shipping it from Ukraine through the Black Sea to other countries. A second part of that agreement included the relief of sanctions that block or hinder Russian export of grain and fertilizer.
The deal came to pass after Ukraine had falsely claimed that Russia had mined the sea route to Ukrainian ports. The mines had been laid by Ukraine:
On Friday, the Ukrainian foreign ministry official said Ukraine had placed some mines. "We have installed naval mines in the exercise of our right to self-defence as stipulated under the Article 51 of the UN Charter".
Some of those mines broke free, drifted towards Turkey and endangered civil shipping.
There were also loud claims that Ukrainian grain was needed to feed the hungry of the world.
The deal was prolonged twice but now Russia has said that it will end it. The sanctions against Russia agricultural export bank, Rosselkhozbank which was disconnected from the central payment provider SWIFT, and the inability of Russia and others to get insurances for ships exporting from Russia are the main deal breakers:
(Excerpt) Read more at moonofalabama.org ...
And now they’re gonna plant thousands of “little bombs” on their own soil.
excerpted:
“...The grain deal had two parts. One was the access of ships to Ukrainian harbors. The other was the normal export of grain and fertilizer from Russia.
While Russia had facilitated the first part of the deal the ‘West’ had collectively blocked the second part....”
AZOV members were freed by turkey, so the agreement was broken.
Caution: moonofalabama is a Marxist front.
“... a Marxist front....”
I don’t know about Marxist, but the site and some of the commenters are either neutral or pro-Russian, this and RT. They are never pro-Ukraine government. But it is a good read and usually have valid points. They also take a hard stand against the one world order and its proponents.
Ukrain used the sea lane to launch attacks so it was never getting extended.
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