Agreement on grain: what were the options and what Russia offers/Collage of the 24 channel website
Dealing with Russia to unlock Ukrainian grain exports as a deal was dubious from the start. You don't need a brain to understand this.
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Understand that Russia is not going to end the war, and that events are determined by military logic, not negotiation. At this stage.
Ukraine, like the United States, from the very beginning was skeptical about the prospects for agreements with the Russian Federation. And, I think, in any case, we considered them as short-term – as an opportunity to take out a blocked consignment of grain.
Let me remind you that two approaches were discussed:
- First(Russia and Turkey) – establishment of a control center in Istanbul, and a safe zone outside Ukrainian territorial waters. Vessels will pass through this zone to Ukrainian ports to load grain and then back. On the way back, the ships will be checked to see if only grain is being transported.
- Second (Ukraine) – demining the area near the ports and providing the opportunity to export grain, but only if other countries will send navies to the area to ensure that Russia does not launch attacks on Ukrainian territory after mine clearance.
As far as I understand, the complex variant was chosen with a preponderance to the first one. But, regardless of the approach, Ukraine warned from the very beginning that Russia would carry out new attacks. behavior. At first, they refused to hit with missiles the very next day after the agreements, then they agreed – they say, we were aiming at military facilities, and not at ports with grain.
