Following the drone attack on Russian ships in port on the Black Sea, Putin declared that the 'grain deal' was dead. That deal was simple: Russia would allow shipments of Ukrainian (and Russian) grain to go through, rather than keeping it bottled up and starving millions who depend on it for food.
Then the British/Ukrainian attack came, and Putin announced that the deal was dead.
Well, along came Erdogan of Turkey (a nominal NATO member) who went to bat to revive the deal.
Putin agreed--but added a massive propaganda win.
...Prior to the phone call with Erdogan, Putin had already pointed out that “34 percent of the grain exported under the deal goes to Turkey, 35 percent to EU countries and only 3-4 percent to the poorest countries. Is this what we did everything for?”
That’s correct. For instance, 1.8 million tons of grain went to Spain; 1.3 million tons to Turkey; and 0.86 million tons to Italy. By contrast, only 0,067 tons went to “starving” Yemen and 0,04 tons to “starving” Afghanistan.
Putin made it very clear that Moscow was not withdrawing from the grain deal but had only suspended its participation.
And as a further gesture of good will, Moscow announced it would willingly ship 500,000 tons of grain to poorer nations for free, in an effort to replace the integral amount that Ukraine should have been able to export....
And--by the way--Putin is now targeting Odessa, a known base-of-operations for the Brits and Ukraine troops and SF.
You will note that the US is apparently pushing Zelenskiy to begin negotiations with Putin soon--or so rumors say. That's not a surprise--unless you were stupid enough to believe that Ukraine was really winning the war.
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