Kyiv/Bucharest, July 19, 2023 – The height of impertinence and lack of respect between states. Ukraine, lacking the means to deliver grain to Turkey, has informed the UN through an official letter that it is establishing a temporary transport route for grain transport on the Black Sea that passes through Romania’s territorial waters
Ukraine is establishing a temporary shipping route through Romania’s territorial waters to maintain grain shipments on the Black Sea after Russia scrapped a deal allowing Ukrainian exports through a UN-backed safe maritime corridor, it has announced. Kyiv in an official letter dated July 19 and sent to the UN agency for maritime transport, reports Reuters.
In the letter dated July 19, sent to the International Maritime Organization, Ukraine says it has “decided to temporarily establish a recommended maritime route”.
“Its purpose is to facilitate the unblocking of international maritime transport in the northwestern part of the Black Sea,” Vasil Shkurakov, Ukraine’s interim minister of communities, territories and infrastructure development, says in the letter.
Ukraine specifies in the letter that the additional traffic route it establishes leads to the territorial waters and the exclusive maritime economic zone of Romania.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the agreement to transport grain on the Black Sea could continue without Russia’s participation, and Ukraine was working on options to keep its food supply commitments.
For his part, Ukraine’s ambassador to Ankara, Vasil Bodnar, said on Wednesday on Ukrainian public television Suspilne that after Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Ukraine is considering the possibility of a “grain corridor” through Romania’s territorial waters and Bulgaria.
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Since Russia decided to abandon the agreement, insurers have hesitated to insure ships carrying grain from Ukraine. A cargo insurance unit that covered shipments under the previous agreement on the secure corridor has been suspended, policy broker Marsh told Reuters on Tuesday.
Additional war risk insurance premiums, which are levied upon entering the Black Sea area, must be renewed every seven days. These already cost thousands of dollars and are expected to rise, while shipowners may be reluctant to allow their ships to enter a war zone without Russia’s consent. In addition, there is also the risk of floating mines.
Russia, which left the grain agreement on Monday, attacked the Ukrainian port of Odesa, the closest to Romania, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Okay, okay, but the Government in Bucharest was informed of this initiative in Kiev. What is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania? Has Romania reached Ukraine’s gambling games? Why so much silence in Buicuresti? And Klaus Jpohannis, who claims to be the president of Romania, knows about these maneuvers of Kiev? We are waiting for the evolution of events.
Or has Zelenski become the crowned/straw emperor of Europe?