https://www.newsweek.com/putin-spit-face-un-striking-port-after-grain-deal-ukraine-1727386
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "spit" in the face of the United Nations and Turkey after Russia was accused of striking a Ukrainian port in Odessa with missiles.
The reported strike came hours after Russia and Ukraine had reached a deal, which the U.N. and Turkey had helped broker, to unblock ports in the Black Sea in order to free tens of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain.
"The Russian missile (strike) is (Russian President) Vladimir Putin's spit in the face of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep (Tayyip) Erdogan, who made enormous efforts to reach the agreement," said Ukraine Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko on Saturday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "If the reached agreement is not fulfilled, Russia will bear full responsibility for deepening the global food crisis."
@vivify saidhow do you bomb bomb something?
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-spit-face-un-striking-port-after-grain-deal-ukraine-1727386
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "spit" in the face of the United Nations and Turkey after Russia was accused of striking a Ukrainian port in Odessa with missiles.
The reported strike came hours after Russia and Ukraine had r ...[text shortened]... s not fulfilled, Russia will bear full responsibility for deepening the global food crisis."
@vivify saidIs this the Putin you support, Metal Brain?
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-spit-face-un-striking-port-after-grain-deal-ukraine-1727386
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "spit" in the face of the United Nations and Turkey after Russia was accused of striking a Ukrainian port in Odessa with missiles.
The reported strike came hours after Russia and Ukraine had r ...[text shortened]... s not fulfilled, Russia will bear full responsibility for deepening the global food crisis."
Keep on lying. We see who Putin is.
Remember this same guy backed Trump to the hilt in the last two elections.
It's who he is.
@mott-the-hoople saidAnything about the content of the story, Putin-lover?
how do you bomb bomb something?
@mott-the-hoople saidI post articles while simultaneously working from home. Mistakes get made sometimes. SEW me.
how do you bomb bomb something?
@vivify saidYes it is. But one does not have to be a Putin apologist to point out how stupid it was for the whole world to line up to impose sanctions on Russia just to turn around a couple of months later to beg him for food and energy while he goes about winning the war anyway.
This is honestly one of the most dickish moves in the modern era of politics.
@sleepyguy saidYes, it was stupid. But there's a global crisis stemming from an unjustified invasion he started. The world was at least hoping he wasn't entirely rat feces and would at least let people not starve.
Yes it is. But one does not have to be a Putin apologist to point out how stupid it was for the whole world to line up to impose sanctions on Russia just to turn around a couple of months later to beg him for food and energy while he goes about winning the war anyway.
I think we have reached an era where the UN can organize a strike force and take over countries run by despotic dictators
like Russia's Putin, and install a sensible native leader. Just go in right now and start bombing Moscow like we did
to Baghdad when Iraq was occupying Kuwait. That sure worked, eh??
Maybe they allowed ships to go out, with food, but then they saw the Ukraine trying to bring supplies in and they got bombed.
Who knows 🤷
All we get is bleeding heart biased media these days.
Not one of them willing to talk about ethnic Russians getting killed in the Ukraine before this war started.
@vivify saidthe US CIA did this...putin had just made a deal to export food from there...putin had NOTHING to gain, the US started this war and doesnt want it to stop...ac lot of people getting rich off the billions being sent there
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-spit-face-un-striking-port-after-grain-deal-ukraine-1727386
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "spit" in the face of the United Nations and Turkey after Russia was accused of striking a Ukrainian port in Odessa with missiles.
The reported strike came hours after Russia and Ukraine had r ...[text shortened]... s not fulfilled, Russia will bear full responsibility for deepening the global food crisis."
@vivify said"The BBC reported that under the terms of the agreements, Moscow has said it will not target ports while shipments are in transit."
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-spit-face-un-striking-port-after-grain-deal-ukraine-1727386
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin "spit" in the face of the United Nations and Turkey after Russia was accused of striking a Ukrainian port in Odessa with missiles.
The reported strike came hours after Russia and Ukraine had r ...[text shortened]... s not fulfilled, Russia will bear full responsibility for deepening the global food crisis."
There doesn't seem to be any allegation that shipments were actually in transit, so despite the Ukraine's spin (which the article seems to accept uncritically), Russia doesn't appear to have violated the agreement. Surely, it cannot be understood to say that Russia will not engage in any offensive action against any military installation in port cities irrespective of whether shipments are in transit or not.
Let's just drop this in here too:
Russia said it would further reduce natural-gas supplies to Europe this week, lobbing another volley in its economic war with the West and raising new questions about Europe’s ability to avoid shutting down factories and leaving homes cold this winter.
Russian state-owned energy producer Gazprom PJSC said gas exports through the vital Nord Stream pipeline to Germany would drop to about a fifth of the pipe’s capacity, blaming sanctions-related problems with turbines that have already reduced flows. The fresh reduction in the pipeline’s capacity—from 40% currently to 20%—is expected to take effect Wednesday, Gazprom said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nord-stream-gas-flows-to-drop-to-20-of-capacity-russias-gazprom-says-11658760473?mod=djemalertNEWS
I hope all the Europeans on the forum are stacking up the firewood.
@no1marauder saidThat is a disgustingly legalistic argument driven by abject stupidity.
"The BBC reported that under the terms of the agreements, Moscow has said it will not target ports while shipments are in transit."
There doesn't seem to be any allegation that shipments were actually in transit, so despite the Ukraine's spin (which the article seems to accept uncritically), Russia doesn't appear to have violated the agreement. Surely, it cannot ...[text shortened]... st any military installation in port cities irrespective of whether shipments are in transit or not.
The purpose of the deal was so grain can be distributed to countries that badly need it; attacking a port where grain was getting read to be shipped spits in the face of that deal.
What a wildly stupid post.