Amid fears of worldwide food shortages due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to reopen sea corridors to allow food exports from the Ukrainian port of Odessa to recommence.
Then Russia hit Odessa with missiles.
World leaders swiftly condemned the Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian port, a dramatic revelation amid a U.N.-brokered deal that secured a sea corridor for grains and other foodstuff exports.
A day prior, representatives from the U.N., Turkey, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to reopen three Ukrainian ports, an apparent breakthrough as the Kremlin’s war on its ex-Soviet neighbor marches into its fifth month.
The deal, signed in Istanbul and set to be implemented in the next few weeks, follows a months-long blockade of dozens of Ukrainian ports sprinkled along the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
The strike on Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port, illustrates yet another anxious turn in fruitless efforts to mitigate a mounting global food crisis.
Given how many agreements and treaties Putin violated by occupying parts of Ukraine and then launching the current war, there’s no reason to believe that Putin will adhere to the terms of any agreement.
The path to lasting peace in Ukraine is complete destruction and ejection of invading Russian forces.
Tags: Black Sea, food, Foreign Policy, Military, Odessa (Ukraine), Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukriane, Vladimir Putin
How can we be sure that it was the Russian who attack the port?
FWIW, the Russians are denying having a part in this.
A Russian denial confirms the source.
The Ukrainians shot down 2 of the 4 missiles launched by the Russians. Since then, the Russians have acknowledged the attack on “military” targets. Everything in the Ukraine is a “military” target to the Russians. There is no “deal” with Russia unless it is backed by heavy weapons.
Aside from the fact that this is what Russians do?
Anyone familiar with Russian history will recognize the course of events. They were doing the same thing in the Baltics, back in the ’20s and ’30s.
The Finns have it about right; Russia is completely untrustworthy. Anything they promise is an indicator for what they intend to do.
More than likely, Stalin spent those first days of Barbarossa in shock mostly because he couldn’t believe that Hitler did him before he did Hitler.
Regarding the Rusians, I’ll quote Tacitus, “They have made a desert and called it peace.” If/when the Russians withdraw, they’ll destroy as much infrastructure they can to reduce Ukraine to a moonscape populated by homeless peasants.
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