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The Kremlin, as noted by analysts, can spoil relations with countries that depen...

Stroke on Odessa: Russia wants to show that grain initiative is impossible - isw

The Kremlin, as noted by analysts, can spoil relations with countries that depend on the supply of grain from Ukraine. Russia tries to show that the Black Sea grain initiative is impossible, and the event should be made to concessions to the Kremlin. Analysts from the American Institute for War Study (ISW) have stated this. The report of July 20 states that Russia continues to strike on Ukrainian ports, grain storage facilities, and threatens to attack civilian vessels in the Black Sea.

The Kremlin has repeatedly used the rhetoric of escalation. Russian politicians believe that threats will have a restraining effect on the activity of ships in the Black Sea and will be able to create conditions that will be compared to the full blockade of Ukrainian ports at the beginning of a full -scale invasion.

"Ukraine is collecting most of its harvest in July-August, and the strikes of Russia in the Ukrainian port and agricultural infrastructure can further complicate Ukraine's ability to release a new crop grain," analysts said. Experts also noted that such actions of the Russian Federation can adversely affect its relations with countries, which depend on the supply of grain from Ukraine. Moreover, these countries are the "target audience" of the Kremlin.

"The Kremlin is ready to use naval forces and high-precision weapons to solve urgent economic problems, not for operations in Ukraine," the analytics added. We will remind that the media reported that the Russian Federation wants to undermine the economy of Ukraine because it loses the war. According to the British analyst Sidhart Kaushal, Russia wants to harm the economy of Ukraine and get rid of Western sanctions. In the war she was already "stuck.