See Russian merchant ship’s journey across Mediterranean with stolen grain

A food crisis looms in Ukraine as Russia continues to block Ukrainian grain exports, skyrocketing the price of grain to $400 per ton on the world market. President Volodymyr Zelensky calls this 'food terrorism.' CNN's Isa Soares reports. #CNN #News

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  1. could always destroy any Russian combat navel vessels in the sea and allow the ports to be opened by force under a “special military operation” to prevent world hunger/

    1. It’s so funny that you think that there is an international community of police that will swoop in 🤣 do an investigation, seize the ship, and return the grain to…(where exactly), like it’s a one hour TV show.
      Manifests and Bill of ladings can be issued by Crimea, at that point you would have to prove that Crimea was acting in bad faith. Aside from that you would have to have the authority to do that and you don’t.

  2. Couldn’t ships carrying stolen merchandise be stoped of crossing the Bosphorus strait? It’s literally piracy.

    1. My question to you is did the Europeans ever refused or arrested any ship with stolen oil from Iraqi and Libya or Syria?

    2. Grain belongs to farmers in Donbas and Lugansk peoples republic not Ukraine. Dobas and Lugansk republics became independant from Ukraine since 2014.

  3. Why are they not seized? This can not be left undeterred by any means. Stop and seize the ships of these pirates.

    1. @Guy North Nato has every right to intervene according to international anti piracy guidelines if they choose to do so. And please don’t start with “provocations”.

    2. @shoeshine stan’ What is this nonsense of “please don’t start…” old women? I said nothing of NATO or its authority, it is just not a policing organization. Hope you shine better than you comprehend..

  4. Frozen Russian money should be used to compensate Ukrainian farmers for lost equipment and grain. Syria should be forced to pay for the stolen grain it receives also.

    1. Grain belongs to farmers in Donbas and Lugansk peoples republic not Ukraine. Dobas and Lugansk republics became independant from Ukraine since 2014.

  5. Any shipment passing through Turkey’s territory should be inspected and if found to have grain from the Ukraine taken and the ship impounded.

    1. Grain belongs to farmers in Donbas and Lugansk peoples republic not Ukraine. Dobas and Lugansk republics became independant from Ukraine since 2014. Ukrain Nazi Azov attacked Donbas and Lugansk in 2014, bombed and killed 14.000 civilians. Than Dobas and Lugansk republics asked Russia for help in 2022.

      That is something CNN wont report on.

    2. @Calisto Can’t reliably tell it’s Ukrainian grain though… Unless you can track every truck in and out of Sevastopol harbour and prove they all loaded their cargo in Ukraine.

  6. It is not complicated – NATO needs to provide safe passage for the grain to be exported

  7. Proud of Egypt and Lebanon for not accepting the stolen grain, even though it would have some immediate benefits. These countries should be thanked for their support in upholding international law, and we should look to help them during the current food crisis.

    1. @Jeannie May Crawford that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever…please explain the philosophical or moral basis for your statement.

  8. The UN should create an international “sea force” .and . send it on a “port-opening” mision to restore and allow food exports from Odessa.

  9. Oh boy, another nightmare. There are any number of people depending on the Ukrainian grain harvest. Which is likely to be a third to a quarter of last year’s total. It can’t all go through Rumanian ports, the port facilities aren’t tailored for it. Nor is the road and rail net. Naval convoy of merchant ships cannot be done without Turkey making an exception in the Montroux accords. Which means an economic bailout for Turkey as a bribe to do so. And even so, that would mean Russian subs trying to sink those freighters, and then NATO escorts and Russian subs being sunk. Can you escalation? Sure you can.

    1. Unless the hungry nation has no choice but to accept the shipment even if it stolen from Ukraine .

  10. I know there are some very fine Russian people with good hearts, but there sure seems to be an astonishing number of rotten Russian apples willing to take what they want if they can get it with no thought of anyone but themselves. I think war seems to bring out the very best in some people, and the very worst in others. It certainly shows people’s true colors.

  11. All the more reason for any business that values its assets to *NEVER* invest in nor do business in Russia ever again.

  12. “As for Russia, she can only be mentioned as the owner of a huge amount of stolen property, which she will have to give back on the day of reckoning.” (C Engels 1866

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