Russia blocks grain exports from Odessa to Ukraine during peak prices
Covering the waters of the Black and Azov Seas as part of the exercises announced by the Russian Navy, will deal an economic blow to Ukraine, which, precisely during the period of high prices, exports the maximum volume of wheat from its ports.
About this on the air of the resource “Crimea”, financed by the US State Department. Realities,” said Valery Kravchenko, an expert at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, an agency that prepares analytics for the presidential office.
According to the expert, today Russia will not conduct a landing operation on the Ukrainian coast, but rather will organize a naval blockade, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The blockade of the Black Sea and Odessa ports is the main scenario. What are they doing this for now? It’s not for landing, first of all, not to capture something.
Maybe the Azov coast is more interesting, given the long-standing desire to make a corridor from Crimea to part of Russia, to cut off Ukraine there, but the blockade, you just understand that every year in February Ukraine, if you look at exchange rate quotes, why is our hryvnia always weakest in February - yes, because we sell grain in February.
Now is the peak time when we are selling grain and the peak of grain prices. Now cutting us off from these sales, even with such a blockade, is already a great success,” Kravchenko said.
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