Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "'Putin Weaponising Food': Biden, Zelensky Up In Arms As Russia Ends Grain Deal After Crimea Attack" video.

As of May 2023, over 30 million tonnes of grain and other foodstuffs have been exported via the Black Sea Grain Initiative. 64% of the wheat exported through the Black Sea Grain Initiative reached developing countries. Maize is exported almost equally to developed and developing countries.
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@ChrisField-rh2ck "I would be ashamed to be Ukrainian with Zelensky begging for money all the time and looking like a bum Maybe he's not as vain as you. And every country in the world who is attacked by a super power would ask for help. Canada too.
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@neilmiley1607 It wasn't a necessity to use SWIFT. "Yet people involved in the grain talks said Russia had appeared more set on derailing the deal in the run-up to Monday’s deadline. Erdoğan said on Monday that he believed Putin wanted the grain deal to continue and that Ankara had “intensified” its diplomatic efforts. The US National Security Council, told reporters at the White House on Monday the US would continue to work with allies to “enable both Russian and Ukrainian grain to reach the rest of the world, including by ensuring that our sanctions do not target . . . Russian food or fertiliser”. Russia lost interest in the deal after efforts to ease pathways for its own food and fertiliser exports ran afoul of western sanctions. Though the US and EU introduced carve-outs for Russia’s agricultural exporters and back doors to facilitate payments to a large Russian state bank, Moscow complained not enough had been done to allow its exports back on the market."
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These clusters are not banned by the US and Ukraine. And NOT RUSSIA either! So what are you talking about?
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@wolfswinkel8906 Lies. Publicly available info shows otherwise. As of May 2023, over 30 million tonnes of grain and other foodstuffs have been exported via the Black Sea Grain Initiative. 64% of the wheat exported through the Black Sea Grain Initiative reached developing countries. Maize is exported almost equally to developed and developing countries. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP – the largest humanitarian organisation in the world) is also shipping wheat from Black Sea ports. Before the war, the programme bought half of its grain stock from Ukraine. Since the start of the initiative in August 2022 over 655 000 tonnes of wheat have left Ukrainian ports to Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti.
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Moscow has been unhappy with the deal since its inception, saying that it failed to deliver on a promise to free up Russian agricultural exports that have been blocked by Western sanctions. While food and fertilizers are not under sanctions, Russia says sanctions-related restrictions on its banking, transit and insurance make trade untenable. The U.N.'s Guterres pushed back against those claims in a press conference Monday, saying Russia's grain trade had "reached high export volumes" and its fertilizer markets were "stabilizing" under policies laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the U.N. and Russia last July. Guterres said the U.N. sent a letter to Putin last week with new proposed measures to address Russia's complaints, including allowing a subsidiary of the Russian Agricultural Bank to reconnect to SWIFT, the world's dominant financial messaging system.
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Most countries in the UN agree to stop the war, but Russia has veto power
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The EU has become a key importer and transshipment point for Ukrainian grains under the “Solidarity Lanes” initiative, including the Black Sea port of Constanta in Romania. Yet the most prominent exporter in the Black Sea region is Russia, from which strong exports continue to flow in 2022/23 and is forecast to reach a record for annual wheat exports. Despite the Russian government claims of export challenges, Russia’s grain and oilseed exports have thrived during the current marketing year with ample supplies and competitive prices. Export volumes could be even larger, but the Russian government continues to apply export taxes and quotas, trade-restricting measures that are self-imposed.
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Was Russia in their rights to use cluster bombs against Ukraine?
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What's sickening you by the UN?
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BS! 64% of the wheat exported through the Black Sea Grain Initiative reached developing countries. Maize is exported almost equally to developed and developing countries. And the only smuggling that has been exposed, is Russian: Satellite images and GPS data indicate that Russia could be exporting grain smuggled out of occupied Ukrainian territory, investigations by the BBC and the Financial Times have revealed. A separate investigation by BBC’s Russian and Ukrainian services revealed that Ukrainian farmers in occupied territories had also been forced to sell grain to Russia at knockdown prices. Moscow-installed authorities in occupied Ukrainian territories announced earlier in June that rail cars carrying Ukrainian grain from the area had departed for Crimea. The publication also tracked activity consistent with the smuggling of looted goods, such as vessels switching off their transponders in violation of international law, using ship-to-ship transfers at sea and forging paperwork to obscure the origins of its cargo.
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@rustysutton My answer was about cluster munitions.
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@EdC-x9j Russia did also agree to the Minsk, but they broke it anyway! NATO is not expanding (wasn't even a promise, according to Gorbachev, he should know) . Those countries seek to NATO because they know Russia will hurt them. I understand that you don't know what I'm talking about. Your country have fuc... you over with lies and propaganda for decades, you probably don't know better! The use of cluster munitions during the Russian invasion has been recorded by a number of eyewitnesses and journalists, as well as representatives of the UN, humanitarian and public organizations. Russian armed forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed populated areas, killing civilians and wrecking hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure, actions that may amount to war crimes. “What we saw in Government-controlled Kramatorsk on 8 April (2022) when cluster sub-munitions hit the railway station, killing 60 civilians and injuring 111 others, is emblematic of the failure to adhere to the principle of distinction, the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks and the principle of precaution enshrined in international humanitarian law,” As of July 1 2022, hundreds of attacks by Russian forces with cluster munitions have already been recorded in the settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions. 215 civilians are known to have been killed in these shellings and 474 injured, many of which may go unreported. Both Russia as well as Ukraine have used cluster munitions during the conflict, however, Russian use has been extensive while Ukrainian use has been more limited.
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@adolpheprince2166 You will survive without food also?
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@pedropalotes7638 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has again condemned Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, calling for Moscow’s immediate withdrawal and an end to the fighting. 141 countries backed the resolution calling for a “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine. Thirty-two countries abstained from voting, while seven countries, including Russia, voted against (Belarus, Russia, Congo, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua and Syria).
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@pedropalotes7638 Well, if you can't read, I can't help you! The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has again condemned Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, calling for MOSCOW’S IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL AND AN END TO THE FIGHTING.
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 @pedropalotes7638 I said most countries in the world wants Russia to stop the war. And I have proved that. You can keep your strawman.
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@pedropalotes7638 OK, I'm going to ask you an easy question, even for you: Do you know what whataboutism is?
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@pedropalotes7638 While you mean let the Russians complete the job they begun in 2014.
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@wolfswinkel8906 As of May 2023, over 30 million tonnes of grain and other foodstuffs have been exported via the Black Sea Grain Initiative. 64% of the wheat exported through the Black Sea Grain Initiative reached developing countries. Maize is exported almost equally to developed and developing countries. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP – the largest humanitarian organisation in the world) is also shipping wheat from Black Sea ports. Before the war, the programme bought half of its grain stock from Ukraine. Since the start of the initiative in August 2022 over 655 000 tonnes of wheat have left Ukrainian ports to Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti.
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