In response to Kerch Bridge attack... The "grain deal is dead" and Odesa port in ruins.

[WarGamer]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-strikes-ukraine-grain-port-after-pulling-out-export-deal-2023-07-18/

KYIV, July 18 (Reuters) - Russia struck Ukrainian ports a day after pulling out of a U.N.-backed deal for safe Black Sea grain exports, and Moscow and Kyiv gave vastly different accounts of fighting in northeastern Ukraine on Tuesday.

Russia said it hit fuel storage in Odesa and a plant making seaborne drones there, as part of "mass revenge strikes" for attacks by Ukraine that knocked out its road bridge to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Shortly after the bridge was hit on Monday, Moscow withdrew from the year-old grain agreement, a move the United Nations said risked creating hunger around the world.

[elleng]

1. Russia/Putin has got to go, he and tmp f'in the WORLD.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Nice agenda-driven thread title

See, that’s what you get for poking the bear, eh? If only Ukraine would just lie down and take it.

[Recycle_Guru]

4. you noticed

😉

[WarGamer]

7. I didn't say that...

I've always said.. war is war. Nothing good comes from it.

Putin started a war and no good is coming of it.

It's going to last for years and destroy the country and a generation of youth.

[Recycle_Guru]

10. I personally think it is over in another year with Putin out of office (dead or otherwise)

[former9thward]

20. People said that a year ago...

[Recycle_Guru]

21. only those who thought Putin would take over Kiev by March 2022

no one from Ukraine government or allies said it would be over in a year--ever.

[former9thward]

23. I guess you weren't reading this site a year ago...

[Recycle_Guru]

24. prior to joining and only read this site a bit back then

[Hortensis]

12. In any case, Ukraine knew all Russia's possible responses and

sent the drone anyway. War. Given how quickly the bridge was put back in service, seems likely the goals are political and far more complex than just damaging it.

Russia says it could return to the grain deal, but only if its demands are met for rules to be eased for its own exports of food and fertiliser. Western countries call that an attempt to use leverage over food supplies to force a weakening in financial sanctions, which already allow Russia to sell food.

Ukraine would predict this also.

[denbot]

14. I e said for years, he's a one trick pony..

[MarineCombatEngineer]

16. This member has been doing the same thing in other threads,

wonder what the agenda is?

[Recycle_Guru]

3. headlines straight from Pravda. Russian troops getting obliterated on front lines

and grain deal was already expiring before bridge sabotage by the Ukrainian army and citizen resistance fighting force.

Putin is dead--he just doesn't know it yet.

[WarGamer]

5. That's rude and uncalled for...

And you're mistaken, of course.

[Recycle_Guru]

8. I was attacking the headline--not you

[femmedem]

25. People have been awful to you on this thread.

So I wanted to pop in and say I hope it doesn't deter you from continuing to post. We've lost too many good DUers over the years--people like you who bring real value to the site--over replies like the ones here.

[canetoad]

13. Hey I'm a Pravda reader

And I never take as truth the words any self-professed guru.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

17. You read Pravda?

Why?
It's state owned and only allowed to print what the Kremlin says it can, just like in the old Soviet days.

[Recycle_Guru]

18. i only profess guru status in the narrow field of recycling

🤣

[Lovie777]

6. Grain is getting out..................

Russians are slowly being pushed out of Crimea and Odesa will survive but shit, Putin values no life but his own.

[EndlessWire]

9. You do know that

Russia has been bombing Odesa prior to the bridge being bombed? And that the food deal was set to expire anyway, and that Russia was complaining about the grain deal being something they didn't want to do anymore?

Africa is going to hurt, but that's what Putin wants. He couldn't go to that Bric summit because Africa asked him not to attend, because they would have to capture him and turn him over to the ICC, what with him being a wanted war criminal. So, he's no wounded hero.

Russia should withdraw from all of Ukraine. Putin's Special Military Action is a bust.

[Recycle_Guru]

11. precisely! no manner of twisting or things will change those points

whoever is against Ukraine continuing to push Russia into the sea and out of ALL Ukrainian territory is on the wrong side of history.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. War! There isn't going to be anything left to fight over. nt

[Emile]

19. They need to hit the bridge again in response.

[Recycle_Guru]

22. exactly.then sink shops when they send those