Ukraine said any ships heading to Russian ports may be military targets, a tit-for-tat response to a threat from Moscow that escalates the war’s risk to global food markets.

Since Moscow halted the Black Sea agreement that allowed Ukraine to export part of its grain harvests, Russia has attacked Ukrainian grain storage facilities and warned that all vessels heading to Ukrainian ports would be considered potential carriers of military supplies.

The escalating threat to vital Black Sea trade steps up the risk of turmoil on global markets for everything from oil and food staples to fertilisers. Russia’s attack on its neighbour has already severely disrupted exports from Ukraine, a major producer of grains and vegetable oils.

Ukraine has previously attacked Russian ships in the Black Sea, sinking the flagship Moskva cruiser with a Neptune anti-ship missile soon after Russia’s invasion.

    • @Widowmaker_Best_Girl
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      201 year ago

      And who says China would be happy if Russia nukes the west? They make up their biggest trading partners.

      • at_an_angle
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        171 year ago

        It makes more sense to have China keep selling Russia 4th rate equipment while keeping the economy going.

        Every notice how the only threat vatniks have is “we’ll nuke ya!”

        Like, get a new fucking threat bro. We’ve seen your military. Your nuclear arsenal can’t be in much better shape… if it hasn’t already been sold off or let to rot.

        • Jaysyn
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          -41 year ago

          Tritium costs $30k a gram & has to replaced every 3 months in (supposedly) 6000 warheads.

    • @teamevil
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      51 year ago

      I doubt China has forgotten the time Russia tried to nuke Honolulu and make it look like the Chinese did it, which in theory would have killed two birds with one stone. US uses up the nuclear stock pile responding to China, this the US is weaker and China would be no more… Nixon’s swans did not happen in a vacuum.