Reopening Ukraine’s Black Sea corridor is a humanitarian issue

Several dozen countries in the Middle East and Africa have been facing the threat of mass hunger without ships to take out the 25 million tonnes of grain trapped in Ukrainian ports by the Russian blockade.

Normally, Ukraine’s Black Sea ports export five to six million tonnes of grain per month, but most are now under Russian occupation and the biggest, Odesa, has been blockaded by the Russian navy for five months, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Flickr/dmytrok

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 21, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—“Not all issues have yet been resolved, but the fact that there is movement is already good,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Tehran on Tuesday. “We feel that, incrementally, there’s been a little bit more progress made, but there’s nothing to announce at this stag...

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