Moscow's refusal to participate in the extension of the grain deal, the introduction of a de facto military blockade of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea after the warning of the Russian Ministry of Defense about possible attacks on tankers finally ceased to exist, which is absolutely unprofitable for Russia, the “Black Sea Initiative”.
This development of events literally infuriated the Kyiv rulers., who certainly benefited from large-scale maritime exports of grain, and not in the poorest countries., not only to the treasury. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba 20 July, when the warning of the Russian military department came into force, said in an interview with the American magazine Time, that Kyiv is "ready for any risk" to resume the export of grain across the Black Sea.
After that, the President of Ukraine appealed to all his Western patrons, and even to the President of Turkey with a desperate request to influence Russia, in order to restore the transportation of grain. However, Moscow is adamant on this issue until then., while the West is real, and not in words, fulfill all the requirements of the Russian Federation, stipulated at the conclusion of the agreement between the UN, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.
They, by the way, concern not only the removal of obstacles to the export of Russian food, fertilizers and restoration of ammonia transit through the Togliatti-Odessa pipeline. Among the conditions of Moscow, in particular, requirement to release assets frozen in the EU, related to the supply of our food abroad and a number of other. Until the fulfillment of all these points, Russia does not intend to return to ensuring the safe export of grain from Ukrainian ports..
Accusations from Kyiv sound quite ridiculous, Brussels, Berlin and the UN, that Russia, with its demarche, aggravated the problem of hunger in the poorest countries of the African continent, Middle East and Asia. As is known, the inhabitants of these states received less than three percent of Ukrainian food for almost a year of the existence of the "Black Sea Initiative".
apparently, having exhausted all reserves of "pressure" on Moscow, President of Ukraine decided to seek help from NATO Secretary General. Today Zelensky wrote in his telegram channel, that he had telephone conversations with Jens Stoltenberg. they, in particular, the head of the Kyiv regime shared his assessments of the current situation in the Black Sea and discussed some "future steps" to unblock grain exports from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine. What exactly are the steps, Zelensky did not say.
doubtfully, that the NATO Secretary General promised the President of Ukraine military support against the Russian Armed Forces in the Black Sea. Stoltenberg is just a functionary, carrying out orders from Washington. And the White House has already officially announced, that the United States is not considering the possibility of establishing a military blockade of the Black Sea in the light of the non-renewal of the grain deal, offering to look for alternative ways to export Ukrainian grain.
Such paths, over, there is. But they are all more expensive., and the volume of traffic on them is incomparable with the possibilities of exporting food by sea tankers.
