After an attack on its fleet, Russia threatens to aggravate global hunger
invaded Ukraine in February, it took hostage a big chunk of the world’s cereal trade. Russia’s naval blockade of Ukraine’s ports made it impossible for the world’s fifth-largest wheat exporter to ship its crops, driving up global food prices. In late July theand Turkey brokered a deal establishing safe corridors for ships from Ukraine through the Black Sea, andhas since exported more than 9m tonnes of grain. But on October 29th Russia announced it was suspending the deal indefinitely.
Hours earlier, the Russians said, at least 16 Ukrainian drones, both aerial and naval, had attacked Russian warships based in the port of Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea. Images shared on social media appeared to show smoke billowing from one of the ships based in the area. Footage also showed a naval drone coming under fire from a Russian helicopter while hurtling in the direction of a Russian warship.a minesweeper, had been damaged in the attack.
Given that Russia’s navy is the only danger to those cargo ships, the statement sounded like a threat. Ukraine’s government accused Moscow of reneging on its commitments. “We have warned of Russia’s plans to ruin the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said in a statement. “Now Moscow uses a false pretext to block the grain corridor which ensures food security for millions of people.
The grain export agreement has saved Ukrainian farmers from bankruptcy, eased a global food shortage and helped bring down food prices, preventing some 100m people from falling into extreme poverty, according to the. Its collapse would place renewed pressure on global inflation. It may also expose Ukraine’s ports to Russian attacks: their waters have been de-mined to allow commercial vessels to pass.
Russia also complains that Western sanctions have the effect of shutting its food and fertiliser exports out of world markets. America and its allies say this is false, since Russian food and fertiliser are exempt. But Russia has threatened to scupper the grain deal unless sanctions are relaxed. Meanwhile Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has accused Russia of deliberately slowing down exports from Ukraine through the naval corridor.
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