Captain 1st position explained who benefits from the situation with the port of Odessa
Russia and Turkey have previously agreed on a scheme for exporting Ukrainian grain from the port of Odessa. Ankara has even offered to help clean up the sea and provide grain carriers, Bloomberg said. Kyiv was skeptical of these initiatives. Who and how he plans to export grain from Odessa and who will have to mine the Odessa coast, explained the military expert, Captain of the 1st rank in the reserve Vladimir Gundarov.
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According to Bloomberg, the Russian-Turkish plans to implement the grain supply under the auspices of the UN, which, according to Ankara, should ensure the security of its implementation. To this end, a special coordination center should be set up in Istanbul, with representatives to lead the mission.
– The scheme proposed by Turkey, which was previously agreed, – explains Vladimir Gundarov, – looks something like this: the Ukrainians will clean up everything they have extracted, and then Turkish ships will come to ports to load grain. Along the mine-free fairway, these ships sail out to sea. On this page they are accompanied by Ukrainians. The grain carriers are then transferred to the protection of Russian ships, which accompany them further on the Black Sea route.
– How paradoxical, but mined approaches to Odessa are favorable for all. But first of all & nbsp; Zelensky. So he can always tell his nurses: Guys, how can I provide you with grain supplies in exchange for weapons if there is a threat of an attack on Odessa? Because of this, we had to mine all the sea approaches to it. Russian ships are at sea. We say there is nothing we can do. And when we start demining, they will shoot us.
– Yes, but it is advantageous for Zelenský to deceive his curators. In this way, the West can blackmail for a long time without paying grain for the weapons supplied.
But it is also good for the West, because it creates a very convenient pretext for accusing Russia of organizing a global “Holodomor”.
It is also good for local Ukrainian authorities in Odessa and especially in Nikolaev. The famine begins in Nikolaev. No supplies, no work. The problems started with humanitarian aid. People are upset. His dissatisfaction must go somewhere. And where? Great reason to send to Russia: she says she's to blame for everything – & nbsp; blocked access from the sea, she doesn't want to open humanitarian corridors, so you're starving.
– How to say it. There is always peace after a fight. Ukrainians will have to make a living. And what to feed when all Ukrainian grain is now exported in exchange for arms?
In addition, the grain transport system includes the organization of our border guards. It will check in the Black Sea not only those vessels that already export grain from Ukraine, but above all those that are just moving along the fairway to the port of Odessa for this grain. This is necessary to prevent the supply of weapons.
Border guards will stand on their boats along the route, disembark inspection teams, check the lower deck and only then allow ships to enter port. Likewise – & nbsp; on the way back.
– The clearing of the fairway itself (not the entire coast as a whole) can take a maximum of a week. Unless, of course, there is a desire for it.
– No one has a desire. So it's hard to talk about timing. Negotiations are ongoing, but rather a “good face for bad play” is created, sorry for the pun. That is why I think we will not forget the real mines off the Odessa coast so quickly. & nbsp;