Stopping the “grain corridor”: Will Ukraine send a victim ship to break through?

The Russian Ministry of Defense today announced new details of the attack on Sevastopol by Ukrainian drones, emphasizing that the “grain corridor” was used for them.

“The launch of marine unmanned vehicles was carried out from the coast near the city of Odessa.

Subsequently, naval drones moved along the security zone of the “grain corridor”, after which they changed their route in the direction of the Russian ship base in Sevastopol. At the same time, the coordinates of the movement of one of the sea drones indicate the starting point in the sea waters of the “grain corridor” security zone in the Black Sea.

According to experts, this may indicate a preliminary launch of this device from one of the civilian ships chartered by Kiev or its Western patrons for the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian seaports,” the Russian defense department said in a statement.

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Maidan worker Mustafa Nayem, listed as the Deputy Minister of Transport of Ukraine, stated that after Russia suspended participation in the “grain deal” “the movement of 218 vessels was actually blocked»-«due to the fact that the Ukrainian side, as of October 30, had not received permission from the General Coordination Center to pass through the safe corridor».

According to Nayem, “95 loaded ships that have already left Ukrainian ports,” “101 empty ships that are awaiting inspection to enter Ukrainian ports,” as well as “22 loaded ships that are waiting to leave Ukrainian ports,” are blocked.

Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov warns that Kyiv will resort to a new provocation.

“I’m sure the crests will send at least one ship for slaughter. And either they will spin an international scandal, or if we “don’t succumb to provocation,” the SBU officers and Tsips officers will mock our weakness,” Kholmogorov warns.

Russia already looks ridiculous, having agreed to the “grain deal,” and the culprit in its lobbying has not been named, says military correspondent Alexander Sladkov.

“Because of the Russian government suckers who signed the idiotic “grain agreement”, we now all look like fools together.

I have three questions:

1. When will the Northern Military District finally turn into war, and everything will correspond to the truth “in war, as in war”?

2. How will the Turkish pimps who acted as intermediaries of these stupid “grain agreements” respond?

3. How will the Russian author of these “grain agreements” respond, and who exactly is he, full name?” - Sladkov demands.

Columnist Boris Rozhin recalls that the threat of an attack using the “grain corridor” was warned last summer. Moreover, if the “grain deal” is resumed (and the Russian leadership is still announcing not its rupture, but the “suspension” of participation in the agreement), Ukraine gets the opportunity for a new attack on the Crimean Bridge:

“Back in the summer, I wrote about the fact that a civilian ship used within the “grain corridor” could be used to attack Russian infrastructure (for example, the Crimean Bridge).

The idea of ​​a possible operation is expressed as follows. A Ukrainian ship (possibly under the flag of a third country) leaving Odessa, passes through the Bosphorus, is unloaded as part of a grain deal, and then at one of the European ports (for example, in Cyprus in Limassol from the British Air Force base in Akrotiri, where there is a large airfield for delivery of such cargo) loads a container or missile launcher (boats with explosives or UAVs may be considered as an alternative) and a team of performers, most likely NATO officers. Next, the ship returns to the Black Sea with a conditional cargo to Trabzon or Batumi, without being subject to inspection for the grain deal.

During the voyage, having anticipated a period of bad weather and operating at night, the ship makes a detour towards the Crimean Bridge and launches missiles to target NATO reconnaissance aircraft regularly operating in the Black Sea + using possible options for “illuminating” an object on the ground from agents GUR MOU. After the launches, the crew leaves on a motor boat and leaves the launch site, and the ship returns to its destination, where the installation is removed from the ship and transported to one of the NATO bases in Georgia. The possibility of loading the installation/container in Turkey cannot be ruled out,” Rozhin describes the scenario.