Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks next week, the Kremlin announced Friday, just over six weeks after Moscow broke off a deal brokered by Ankara and the U.N. that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets safely despite the 18-month war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin and Erdogan would meet Monday in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The announcement ended weeks of speculation about when and where the two leaders might meet next as international efforts continue to patch up the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which got agrain and other food to parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat.
Ukraine and Russia are both major global suppliers of wheat, barley, sunflower oil and other commodities that developing nations rely on.
It seems so easy to me. Russia just stays in their territorial waters and has all the rights to immediately bomb and sink any boats cross their borders. Enjoy the self imposed commerce ban. Rostov and Novorossiysk are so fucking far from Odessa, i don’t even remotely understand how they could claim it’s their waters
Erdogan is such a bootlicker…
I wouldn’t say that. He is the ultimate opportunist. Playing both sides. Selling arms to Ukraine. Member of NATO. Bought Russian air defence stations. Taking money from Russian tourists who can’t travel elsewhere. etc.
So… Bootlicker.
I’m sure it’ll be something like, help us take these regions and then we will ship grain from our regions to the world.
That’s a bad joke though
Additionally, Russia bombed huge portions of Ukraine’s grain and export infrastructure. Why should Ukraine agree to stop striking Russian ships in the Black Sea just because it’s suddenly inconvenient for Russia? No, Russia pulled out of this deal and destroyed any reason to bring it back. Russia made their bed, now it’s time for them to sleep in it.
Ukraine would agree simply because their economy is in bits, they need all the money they can get. Food exports used to account for 15% of Ukrainian GDP, that’s a lot.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The announcement ended weeks of speculation about when and where the two leaders might meet next as international efforts continue to patch up the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which got agrain and other food to parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat.
The Ocean Courtesy was headed to Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta and is estimated to arrive there Saturday afternoon, according to the global ship tracking website MarineTraffic.
Drones aimed at targets inside Russia — and blamed by Moscow on Ukraine — have become almost daily occurrences as the war has entered its 19th month and Kyiv’s forces pursue a counteroffensive.
Meanwhile, satellite images analyzed by the AP show that suspected Ukrainian drone attacks late Tuesday destroyed at least two Ilyushin Il-76 military transport planes at a Russian air base.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country had developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers (400 miles) away, apparently referencing the air base attack.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Counci of Ukraine, suggested on television Friday that the weapon can fly even further than the distance Zelenskyy mentioned.
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Can we kick them out of nato yet?
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Where should it go? Kiev? Washington? London? Moscow?
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That doesn’t take a nuke. Just a normal missile…
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we have a missile for that, too.
we have a missile for everything.
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There’s a French poem I’m desperate to find again about a scientist trying to make an atomic bomb in service of France, but he can’t get a blast over more than 2 meters.
He eventually figures the issue wasn’t the yield, but targeting, so it concludes with our scientist detonating it in a small room among the politicians and generals he worked for.
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