Ukraine war: Explosions rock Ukrainian port hours after grain deal

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10. Russia is not giving up on getting Odesa

but their style of warfare is to bomb every inch of a city to rubble. They've shown this over and over again. I am not surprised that Odesa is in peril.

I wouldn't be surprised if the plan was simply to have Ukraine harvest the grain and then bring it to them. It sounds good in UN circles to say, "Yes, we are letting food shipments through," but reality is different. The UN is not happy about the disruption of food supplies to dependent nations, and this BS about not targeting grain shipments might be to simply keep the UN appeased.

With their encircled army requesting a "green corridor" to withdraw their troops and not getting it, I wouldn't doubt that there will be no continuity or reciprocity regarding allowing grain shipments through to shipping on the Black Sea.