(EFE) he will not attend the Brics forum summit in South Africa in August for fear of being arrested for war crimes.
Specifically, the Russian attack on the Odessa region, which also involved drones, destroyed 60,000 tons of grain in the port of Chornomorsk, according to Mykola Solskyi, Ukraine’s Minister of Food and Agricultural Policy.
At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense warned that, once its participation in the agreement for the maritime transit of the grain is suspended, as of this midnight it will consider all ships heading to Ukrainian ports as potential targets as “possible carriers of military cargo”.
Solskyi explained that the attacked grain cargo was waiting to be stowed on a large-tonnage ship, which was due to have set sail 60 days ago. “This is a terrorist act, not against Ukraine, but against the whole world. Their food security is again in danger. Humanity is held hostage by a terrorist country that blackmails everyone,” he said.
Solskyi explained that the attacked grain cargo was waiting to be stowed on a large-tonnage ship, which should have set sail 60 days ago.
The minister warned that the destruction of the silos will cause an increase in the cost of grain and also in the price of food such as flour and meat.
In turn, he admitted that the Russian bombs disabled much of the Chornomorsk port infrastructure, which will take at least a year to repair, according to experts.
Although the war reports from the Russian Defense Ministry do not mention any attack on grain terminals, the bombings are also a retaliation for the explosion that occurred on Monday at the Crimean bridge, the second since the start of the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Kiev for the explosion, which left two dead and a girl seriously injured, and warned that “Russia will respond without fail.”
Kiev was not deterred and, in an attempt to isolate the Russian-annexed Ukrainian peninsula, a Crimean training camp was the scene of another attack on Wednesday, which caused numerous detonations, allegedly of ammunition.
After condemning the attack by what he called a “terrorist state” on Ukrainian grain, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky advocated increasing the supply of Western air defense systems to Kiev.
He admitted to having received two European SAMP-T batteries at the time, whose effectiveness he openly praised, but considered them insufficient.
“And also the (American) Patriot systems. You know very well who gave us these systems. But all this is not enough at the moment to protect our own infrastructures,” he said.
The South African authorities could not guarantee the safety of the head of the Kremlin, whose arrest could mean “a declaration of war”
Meanwhile, Putin received a serious setback today when it was learned that he will not participate in the summit of the Brics countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), which will be held in Johannesburg from August 22 to 24.
The reason for the decision, supposedly adopted “by mutual agreement” with South Africa, is the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Putin for the deportation of Ukrainian children.
And it is that the South African authorities could not guarantee the safety of the head of the Kremlin, whose arrest could mean “a declaration of war”, according to the admission of the country’s own president, Cyril Ramphosa.
“President Putin has decided to participate in the Brics summit via videoconference. It will be a full-fledged participation,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
The Russian leader’s freedom of movement has been severely limited, since 123 countries have signed the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC, and another thirty have signed it, but have not ratified it.
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