![]() ![]() How can the West respond to Putin’s actions? And what might he do in return?įor starters, the US can learn from its own history. Ukraine is among the world’s largest exporters of several key grains, fertilisers and flower oils. Putin is also weaponising hunger by cutting food supplies to North Africa and other parts of the global south. There is no state of declared war between the parties (recall this is, in Putin’s own words, merely a “special military operation”) and it would directly curtail freedom on the high seas. Under international law, such blockades are illegal. This will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for shippers of grain and other agricultural products to obtain insurance - effectively creating a blockade. In addition to ending Russian participation in the grain deal - which was brokered with the aid of the United Nations and Turkey - Putin said he may begin attacking grain ships still plying the international waters of the Black Sea. There are several reasons for Putin’s withdrawal: frustration at Western sanctions concern over Ukraine’s modestly successful counteroffensive and anger at the Ukrainians’ bold strike on the symbolically and logistically important Kerch Strait bridge that connects Russia to occupied Crimea. In the latest escalation of his war crimes against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has pulled out of the painfully negotiated grain deal that for months has permitted exports of Ukrainian and Russian agricultural products from Black Sea ports. ![]()
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