After agreeing to let Ukraine export grain, Russia rockets its port
A strike on Odessa undermines a deal to ease the global food crisis
Editor’s note: This piece was updated after Russian strikes on Odessa on July 23rd.
For months António Guterres, the un’s secretary-general, has warned that Russia’s war on Ukraine could cause a global food crisis by blocking Ukraine’s grain exports. On July 22nd in Istanbul, Mr Guterres and Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, brokered a deal to let those exports resume. The next morning Russian missiles hit Odessa, Ukraine’s biggest port. Vladimir Putin had “[spat] in the face” of Messrs Guterres and Erdogan, said Oleg Nikolenko, a Ukrainian spokesman.
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