The U.S. is accusing Vladimir Putin of using food as a weapon after his forces attacked a key port that’s used to ship desperately needed grain to the world.
There was worldwide condemnation of the Russian missile strikes on the Black Sea port of Odesa just one day after Russia signed a U.N. brokered agreement to allow grain ships to begin leaving.
Russia first denied it hit the port and then admitted it, claiming it hit military targets.
Shipping companies are not rushing to export millions of tons of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea.
That is because explosive mines are drifting in the waters, ship owners are assessing the risks.
The attacks not only cast doubt on the agreement between Russia and Ukraine but further threaten grain exports and global food supply at a time when the world urgently needs Ukrainian wheat.
Turkish officials say a deal has been reached on a U.N. plan to unblock the exports of Ukrainian grain amid the war.
It is set to be signed in Istanbul. U.N. Secretary-General Guterres has been working on a plan that would enable Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain stockpiles that have been stuck in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports due to the war a move that could ease a global food crisis that has sent wheat and other grain prices soaring.
At least 22 million tons of grain are stuck in Ukraine due to the war.
“The grain export agreement, critically important for global food security, will be signed in Istanbul under the auspices of President Erdoğan and U.N. Secretary-General Mr. Guterres together with Ukrainian and Russian delegations,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said in a tweet.
James 2:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 2:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Luke 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
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