What is the Black Sea grain deal?

The Black Sea Initiative has effectively been suspended, the Kremlin announced on Monday.

How did it come about? What are its terms?

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🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Black Sea grain deal:

▪️The Black Sea Grain Initiative was important in its moment as it prevented a food crisis;

▪️He expects to hold negotiations with Putin on the grain deal after returning from his tour of the Persian Gulf countries;

▪️Turkiye's foreign minister will hold talks with the Russian foreign minister on the grain deal.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemns the terrorist attack against the Crimean Bridge, which is purely a civilian object:

▪️Russia hopes that the international community will give a proper assessment of Kiev's crime - the terrorist act on the Crimean Bridge;

▪️Attempts to disrupt transport links with Crimea and separate it from the rest of Russia are inherently unfeasible, If the investigation into the attack on the Crimean Bridge reveals the involvement of drones of Western origin, it will confirm the complicity of the West.

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The Crimean Bridge terrorist attack could’ve been carried out using the safe passage of Black Sea grain corridor, Russian lawmaker Volodin claims

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces took out over 320 Ukrainian soldiers and foreign mercenaries, two infantry fighting vehicles, one Polish Krab self-propelled howitzer, a Rapira anti-tank gun, one US-made M-777 howitzer, as well as an American-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station;

▪️In the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Russian troops neutralized up to 240 Ukrainian troops, an American-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, two armored fighting vehicles, three Msta-B and one D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces destroyed up to 35 Ukrainian soldiers, two infantry fighting vehicles, one D-20 howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, the actions of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were thwarted, Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 60 soldiers, one US-made M-777 howitzer, two armored fighting vehicles, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system and a D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Russian troops neutralized up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, Verba infrared homing surface-to-air missile; A command post was hit in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️An ammunition depot was destroyed close to Kramatorsk in the DPR;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down three Storm Shadow cruise missiles, three HIMARS rockets, as well as 12 drones in the DPR, LPR, and Kherson region.

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📹 Throwback to 2022: Ukrainian top diplomat Kuleba was tricked by infamous Russian pranksters into admitting Ukraine was behind the Crimean Bridge explosion

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📹 Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee publishes an up-to-date video on the situation on the Crimean Bridge

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🗣️ On why people migrate to the US:

“The only way to effectively deter migration into the United States is to end US interference in outside countries. People don't just migrate to the United States if the place that they live in is safe... But if you have a country as powerful as the United States, which is constantly meddling in the affairs of your country, is funding gangs, is imposing austerity measures. These are all things, by the way, that are being imposed on Central America by the United States. Then, yes, people are going to leave,” Salifu Mack, an editor at Hood Communist and a member of the Lowcountry Action Committee and the Black Alliance for Peace, told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of Mack’s analysis in our podcast By Any Means Necessary

The Crimean Bridge structural underpinnings were not damaged, according to preliminary data, Russian Deputy PM Marat Khusnullin said.

Within two hours, there will be a decision on the possibility of starting car traffic, Khusnullin added.

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❗️Russia's decision to terminate grain deal is final, no talks underway, Russian mission to UN said

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🗣️ On the level of propaganda in the US:

“We know it so well that the American people are the most propagandized people on earth... Their patriotism has been manipulated to the benefit of a very, very small group of elites who make a fortune off of the war machine. They're in the military industry, they're in the media industry, they're in the think tank industry, they're in the NGO industry,” Daniel McAdams, executive director of the 'Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,’ told Sputnik.

🎧 Listen to more of McAdams’ analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

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The commercial US satellite WorldView-2 from the company Maxar filmed the Crimean Bridge twice in the last month, including last week.

The US and Ukraine have repeatedly stated that they cooperate in "issues of providing data" from American satellites for the needs of the Ukrainian forces.

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🇮🇳🇮🇩 India and Indonesia to Trade in Local Currency, Link Up Fast Payment Systems: Reports

India and Indonesia intent to foster cross-border trade using local currencies as well as merge their fast payment systems as part of this collaborative effort, foreign media reports citing Indian high-ranking official.

🌐 The Indian finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, and her Indonesian counterpart, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, have engaged in discussions on these proposals in anticipation of the upcoming G20 meeting in India.

🇦🇪 It is worth noting that earlier, India and the UAE had already taken steps to enhance the utilization of their respective national currencies through signed Memorandums of Understanding.

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🇸🇾🤝🇮🇶 First in 13 years: Iraqi PM visits Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus

💬 “This relation is as deep as the shared history between the two countries; the oldest history in the whole world," Assad said

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