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Russia fires missiles at Odesa port hours after signing grain export deal

by | Jul 23, 2022 | 11 comments

Peter Beaumont in Kropyvnytskyi – The Guardian.co.uk July 2022

Barely 12 hours after Moscow signed a deal with Ukraine to allow monitored grain exports from Ukraine’s southern ports, Russia targeted Ukraine’s main port of Odesa – through which grain shipments would take place – with cruise missile strikes.

“The enemy attacked the Odesa sea trade port with Kalibr cruise missiles,” Ukraine’s operational command south wrote on Telegram, raising doubts about the viability of the deal that was intended to release 20m tonnes of grain to ward off famine in large parts of the developing world.

Russia’s defence ministry did not immediately confirm responsibility for the attack.

Eyewitness footage posted on social media, taken in the port area, showed one of the missiles exploding close to the seafront behind rows of containers and not far from a docked ship.

The landmark deal signed by Moscow and Kyiv on Friday is seen as crucial to curbing soaring global food prices, easing a supply crunch by allowing certain exports to be shipped from Black Sea ports including Odesa.

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Footnote – July 23, 2022

We’ve only posted the opening paragraphs of the Guardian article because the rest is disinformation, pure and simple.

Apart from repeatedly referring to Odessa as “Odesa” (one “s” not two, in the same way that the western MSM refers to Kiev as “Kyiv”), the article also claims that Russia is enforcing a blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.

This ignores the fact that Ukraine deliberately mined large parts of its Black Sea coast to deter Russian amphibious assaults.

It also ignores Russian offers “to provide safe passage” for Ukrainian grain exports.

As they say, there are two sides to every story and the Guardian is only providing one side.

 


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11 Comments

  2. Sophie Johnson on July 23, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    RT speaks:

    ‘Moscow has so far remained silent on the latest claims from Kiev. Russia has repeatedly stated that it exclusively strikes military targets in the ongoing conflict, which broke out in late February.
    Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Ankara had discussed the incident with both Moscow and Kiev. “Russians told us that they had absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they were examining the affair very closely and in detail,” Akar revealed.’

    https://www.rt.com/russia/559515-ukraine-odessa-port-attack/

  3. Scunnered on July 23, 2022 at 5:01 pm

    This is nothing compared to what will happen once the Donbas is wrapped up!

  4. Carl Jones on July 23, 2022 at 8:18 pm

    Russia fires one missile, sure they did. Yawn.

  5. jim on July 23, 2022 at 9:14 pm

    1. It’s the ‘guardian’.
    2. The ‘information’ is from the jewkranians.

    Nuff said.

  6. Peter Petherington on July 23, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    Gonna be an absolutely legendary day for histrionic headlines (courtesy of MI6😎) in Sunday’s THICK Brit “news”papers!
    😅

  7. Glenn Ashton on July 23, 2022 at 11:38 pm

    We need to see a small boy, ( mannequin) face down in the sand on a beach, with the waters gently lapping all around him, Obviously with one shoe off his bare foot close by his side, (preferably with a teddy bear in view, torn open to reveal the stuffing) Proper proof, That this was a Russian attack.

    Surely ‘truss’ will be appaulled by this, invoking a national ‘response’ !
    ( 6 more trans gender territorials to Estonia)
    She has to be the One ! After all, She is going to lower taxes,

    btw… “20 million tons of grain, to feed developing nations”. The Text in the Viz comic is more credible than todays so called newspapers.

    You have to laugh.

  8. Cobalt on July 24, 2022 at 1:35 am

    The Guardian is the paper version of the BBC… and both are Mossad/CIA/MI5 dis-information assets.

  9. Yukon Jack on July 24, 2022 at 4:51 am

    Russia Informs Turkey It Had “Nothing To Do” With Odessa Port Attack

    Turkey’s defense minister said on Saturday that Russian officials had told Ankara that Moscow had “nothing to do” with strikes on Ukraine’s Odesa port.

    “In our contact with Russia, the Russians told us that they had absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they were examining the issue very closely and in detail,” Defence Minister Hulusai Akar said in a statement.

    “The fact that such an incident took place right after the agreement we made yesterday really worried us,” he added.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/odessa-port-rocked-airstrikes-hours-after-ukraine-grain-export-deal-signed

  10. Jerome on July 24, 2022 at 6:49 am

    For real information about the Russian regime: fitzinfo.net + fitzinfo twitter, edwardslavsquat.substack.com and redefininggod.com