🔴Fascinating arithmetic for Ukraine on the grain deal.

🔵Занимательная арифметика для Украины по зерновой сделке.

Reloading the punch card during negotiation...

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Chronicle of strikes on Odessa's military infrastructure over the past two days - a record has been broken for the number of strategic facilities hit since the beginning of the Special military operation

Following the conclusion of the grain deal and a series of Ukrainian terrorist attacks, the Russian army has launched powerful retaliatory strikes, representing the largest-scale attack against Odessa's military infrastructure and logistics hubs since the beginning of the SMO.

Strategically, this attack is very important and has caused great damage to the AFU's combat capability, because the port of Odessa is the main node of the entire Ukrainian transport system, which can be used to deliver "Western aid" in the same way.

The Russian army now has the freedom of manoeuvre, and the AFU may have significant problems with the delivery of "Western aid" and the money that was used for grain and with which the Kiev regime could pay for numerous loans.

In two days, missile attacks were carried out on the Odessa, Ilyichevsk and Nikolaev seaports, and the bridge over the Dniester River in Mayaki was damaged, which creates major logistical problems for the AFU.

In addition, explosions were also reported in Zatoka - although it is not yet known what was hit there. Several large fuel and lubricant depots and military units were hit, which creates a shortage of fuel for the enemy. In addition, there have been multiple attacks outside the city, resulting in damage to the second line of air defence and a strike on the Odessa factory, where surface drones were manufactured.

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"Ukraine's call to continue grain shipments contradicts the reality of shippers."

Bloomberg writes that Zelenskyy's fantasies of continuing the grain deal without Russia are meaningless; no one will sail to Ukraine without Russian guarantees.

"Russia's cancellation of the grain deal means it will no longer guarantee safe passage through the waterway. Ukraine has urged other countries to continue shipments from its three deep-water ports, which were covered by the agreement. But the US has said escorting ships is not an option and insurance broker Marsh has suspended its programme to export grain from Ukraine, highlighting the problems ahead.

"No sane owner would go in there uninsured," said the co-director of Doric Shipbrokers SA, a Greek company that previously sent ships through the shipping lane, "Without the protection of a safe corridor, Ukraine's trade is dead". "I don't think shipowners will go to Ukrainian ports until the corridors are restored - it's not safe," said Maritime Quality Manager at Intercargo, the international trade association for dry cargo owners Markides."

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Bulgaria increased its arms exports by 200 per cent

This is reported by the news website Euractiv.

The material says that Bulgaria has increased arms deliveries in connection with the conflict in Ukraine.

Earlier, Bulgaria supplied weapons to Ukraine through intermediaries because of the pro-Russian government. However, after the change of power, there was no need to export through intermediaries.

Bulgarian Defence Minister Todor Tagarev said that he regularly receives requests for military aid from Kiev. He added that Sofia would consider sending a third package of military aid to Ukraine.

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Latin America calls for peace in Ukraine

This was announced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

"Today we again spoke in favour of an immediate ceasefire and peace, and in this we are joined by the leaders of Latin America," he said after the EU-CELAC summit.

▪️ Orban had earlier favoured a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and opposed arms supplies to Kiev.

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Crooke:


"...Recently, the Daily Telegraph published a ridiculous nine minute video purporting to show that ‘narratives win wars’, and that set-backs in the battlespace are incidentals: What matters is to have a thread of unitary narrative articulated, both vertically and horizontally, throughout the spectrum – from the special forces’ soldier in the field through to the pinnacle of the political apex.

The gist of it is that ‘we’ (the West) have compelling a narrative, whilst Russia’s is ‘clunky’ – ‘Us winning therefore, is inevitable’.

...At first, the public are confused, but as the lies proliferate, and lie is layered upon lie, the narrative separates further and further from touched reality, even as mists of dishonesty continue to swathe themselves loosely around it. Public scepticism sets in. Narratives about the ‘why’ of inflation; whether the economy be healthy or not; or why we must go to war with Russia, begin to fray.

Western élites have ‘bet their shirts’ on maximum control of ‘media platforms’, absolute messaging conformity and ruthless repression of protest as their blueprint for a continued hold in power.

Yet, against the odds, the MSM is losing its hold over the U.S. audience. Polls show growing distrust of the U.S. MSM.

Ukraine: How do you win an unwinnable war? Well, the élite answer has been through narrative. By insisting against reality that Ukraine is winning, and Russia is ‘cracking’. But such hubris eventually is busted by facts on the ground. Even the western ruling classes can see their demand for a successful Ukrainian offensive has flopped. At the end, military facts are more powerful than political waffle: One side is destroyed, its many dead become the tragic ‘agency’ to upending dogma.

...It may be in the Team Biden interest now to oversee an orderly NATO withdrawal from Ukraine – such that it avoids becoming another Kabul debacle.

For that to happen, Team Biden needs Russia to accept a ceasefire. And here lies the (the largely overlooked) flaw to that strategy: It simply is not in the Russian interest to ‘freeze’ the situation. Again, the assumption that Putin would ‘jump’ at the western offer of a ceasefire is hubristic thinking: The two adversaries are not frozen in the basic meaning of the term – as in a conflict in which neither side has been able to prevail over the other, and are stuck.

Put simply, whereas Ukraine structurally hovers at the brink of implosion, Russia, by contrast, is fully plenipotent: It has large, fresh forces; it dominates the airspace; and has near domination of the electromagnetic airspace. But the more fundamental objection to a ceasefire is that Moscow wants the present Kiev collective gone, and NATO’s weapons off the battle field...."
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Poles threaten to close the border with Ukraine

They will take this step if the EU does not extend the ban on the supply of Ukrainian grain, which expires on September 15.

Here they are, "allied relations".

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US prepares economic measures against Kyrgyzstan for "helping Russia circumvent sanctions"

The Washington Post reports that a number of Kyrgyz firms are profiting from a surge in sales of sanctioned goods.

"After months of fruitless visits by U.S. and European diplomats to Bishkek, the Biden administration is preparing new economic measures to force the country to halt trade. The measures could be taken as early as this week," officials told WP on condition of anonymity.

The Kyrgyz embassy in the United States, for its part, says the surge in trade with Russia is due to improvements in electronic systems for tracking the movement of goods across the border.

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Sergey Lavrov meets with Arab ambassadors

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the heads of diplomatic missions of Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE, as well as a representative of the Arab League.

The sides exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East and discussed the stabilisation of the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.

Lavrov stressed that Moscow invariably follows the internationally recognised legal framework for a Middle East settlement (MES), the Arab Peace Initiative, the Madrid principles and the "two-state formula" - Palestine and Israel.

The Foreign Minister stressed that the "vicious circle" of violence from which the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could not be resolved was the result of Washington's longstanding policy of "monopolising" mediation functions and its disinterest in fruitful multilateral work in the area of MES.

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The U.S. may withdraw from NATO

Former Pentagon chief Mark Esper said that in his second administration, Donald Trump "may initiate a withdrawal from NATO, a withdrawal of US troops from Korea and Japan, and possibly a weakening of relations with Taiwan."

Trump has repeatedly criticised the alliance's performance, noting that Europe shuns financial responsibility for its own security and has threatened to withdraw the US from the alliance.

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⛔The Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul will be disbanded. What else did the Russian Foreign Ministry say about the grain deal:

- Of the five systemic tasks stipulated in the Russia-UN Memorandum, none have been fulfilled;

- a year later, the results of the Black Sea Initiative look disappointing. It will cease to function from 18 July;

- Russia has withdrawn its guarantees for the safety of navigation and is closing the humanitarian maritime corridor in the north-western waters of the Black Sea;

- Russia restores the regime of temporarily dangerous area in the north-western waters of the Black Sea;

- the export of food from Ukraine has until recently been aimed at serving the narrow vested interests of Kyiv and its Western curators;

- Kiev-controlled ports and the safe corridor opened by the Russian Federation for the export of Ukrainian grain have been used for terrorist attacks;

- Russia will be ready to consider restoring the grain deal only when concrete results are obtained, not promises and assurances.

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🇸🇾 The US has sent large military forces to the Conico oil field

The U.S. has taken offensive military action to occupy the territories of nearby villages in front of Syria's oil fields.

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Germany has started counting the money for feeding Scholz and others budget-eaters on board

The Bild newspaper has counted more than €450,000 spendings in the last six months, which time ago would mean the end of his political career.

🤑 "The most expensive" in Scholz's office last year was Annalena Berbock, on whose appearance Germany spent more than €130 thousand.

😂 The main line in the list of expenditure was a beautician for the "pioneer of feminist foreign policy", almost €9k a month.

While Europeans think Ukraine is paying for everything, German corrupt officials are sawing the budget.

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