At this moment, tankers full of Ukrainian grain have set off again on the Black Sea, but no one knows where they will be unloaded.
Let's just remember that the entire Western liberal press, and of course their domestic affiliates, shed crocodile tears every day for the millions of poor African starving people who were condemned to starvation by the evil Putin because he does not allow ships filled with Ukrainian wheat to leave the Black Sea ports. This mantra went on for weeks until an agreement was reached in Istanbul on the lifting of restrictions on Russian crop exports and Russian contributions to Ukrainian grain exports. (The deal expires this month.)
Then it turned out that out of 87 ships leaving Ukrainian ports, three went to South Africa, three to Israel, seven to Egypt, and 30 to the European Union. And only two to the poorest countries, within the framework of the UN food program: Yemen and Djibouti.
"That's 60,000 tons and only 3 percent," Putin said resignedly, as if he wasn't even surprised.
I don't know if anyone told Zelensky about the starving people in Africa and that it wasn't about that. Not to mention that the convention was signed by the UN, but both the organization and the World Food Programme, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020, have been silent about the 3 percent in question, instead of being outraged and calling it a scandal. in the international press.
And which country is the most important supporter of the UN, with 22 percent of its total budget? Well, yes... that's how we understand deep listening.
But something else happened. Even before the Russians canceled the agreement a few days ago, Vasiliy Nyebenzja, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, already in September put the prospect of canceling the crop agreement because the second part of it, which related to ensuring Russian exports, was not implemented.
The hypocrisy in this is that although Western countries do not obstruct Russian food exports, they have in practice limited them, as their commercial ships have not been allowed to enter their ports
presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out. The Russians have already warned the contracting parties to terminate the crop agreement once, the drone attack in Sevastopol - which Ukraine did not recognize - was the second such case.
This is interesting in part because Russia has already shipped 6.6 million tons of grain to the world market through August, 6.3 million tons of which went to Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and it obviously wants to keep up the pace, especially because Russia's harvest this year is about There will be 60 million tons of wheat.
We already know the end of the story (?): Turkey and the UN mediated between the parties, and Russia received guarantees from Ukraine that it would not use the Black Sea grain corridor for military operations against Russia.
We will see how much Zelensky's guarantee is worth.
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