November 2, 2022
1. Moscow says that if Ukraine violates its security guarantees, Russia may ditch the grain accord
President Vladimir Putin says Russia reserves the right to withdraw from the Turkish- and UN-mediated grain deal if Ukraine violates its written security guarantees to not use the humanitarian corridor for military purposes. “Everyone knows that Ukraine used the humanitarian corridor to attempt an attack on the Black Sea Fleet,” the president said, stressing that this was the reason Russia suspended its participation in the grain deal and demanded written guarantees that such incidents will not occur in the future.
Putin noted that he ordered Russia to return to the deal only after Ankara, which had acted as an intermediary in the original deal, informed the Russian Defense Ministry that Ukraine had given assurances to refrain from using the corridor for military purposes.
The grain deal was initially negotiated back in July and was established through a set of agreements between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the UNO. The scheme was designed to help unlock agricultural exports via the Black Sea from Ukrainian sea ports, which had previously been blocked due to the military conflict between the two states.
Last week, however, Moscow pulled out of the deal “indefinitely” after Ukrainian forces attempted to carry out a series of attacks on the port city of Sevastopol using 16 unmanned aerial and naval vehicles launched from the grain sea corridor, according to Russia's Defense Ministry. One naval drone collected from water had 500 kg of HE and Canada-made navigational system.
Most of the drones were launched from the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, not far from the port city of Odessa, the Russian military said. “The naval drones were then moving within the security zone of the grain corridor before changing course and heading towards the Russian naval base in Sevastopol,” the statement said. Navigational data from at least one naval drone shows that it was launched from a sea location within the grain corridor security zone, the ministry added.
British military experts who settled down in the city of Otchakov controlled by AFU helped to arrange and guide such attack
Moscow has been very critical to disbalanced delivery of grain from Ukraine, by noting that under the grain deal, a good half of all dry-cargo carriers went to developed countries. At the same time, Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen, Sudan and Afghanistan received only about 3% of agricultural products,” he noted.
It means, that Ukraine, the EU/NATO member states and the UNO have cheated the world community and poor countries when they demanded to reach the grain deal for the sake of these famine-stricken countries.
2. NATO has doubled troops on Russian border: Russian MoD
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said NATO forces aimed at threatening Moscow had more than doubled in size since the start of the operation in Ukraine
The number of NATO forces stationed close to Russia’s western borders has reached more than 30,000, the country’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on November 2.
“The contingent has grown in size by two and a half times to more than 30,000 people since February 2022, and may grow more in the nearest future,” Shoigu said during a joint ministerial session with military officials from Belarus.
He stated that the US-led military bloc had augmented units in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in the Balkans and Baltic states. He also clarified that such a concentration of Western forces poses a threat not only to Moscow, but to Belarus, Russia’s ally. The defense of both countries is a “priority task” of the Union State of the Russian Federation and Belarus, he stated.
The West’s ultimate goal in its confrontation with Russia is to “destroy its economy, military potential, and to deprive it of the ability to conduct independent foreign policy,” Shoigu said.
3. Zelensky on the risk of nuclear war, adding that Ukraine does not afraid it
There’s no need to fear Russia's ultimatums or take them seriously, the Ukrainian president has said. The threat of a nuclear conflict does exist, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told Czech Television (CT) on November 2, adding, though, that he does not see it as a likely possibility. There is no need to be afraid of Russia, the Ukrainian leader added. “I do not think we should be afraid of that,” he told journalist Michal Kubal when asked about the possibility of a nuclear war.
Such a statement is a clear proof that Zelensky may use ‘a dirty N-bomb’.
The upcoming trip of the IAEA inspectors only to two nuclear facilities in Ukraine – by the way selected by Kiev (!) – will find noting suspicious related to such radioactive bomb. These facilities will be carefully cleaned before the IAEA visit. And after the IAEA DG Rafael Grossi’s team will leave them, the work on creation such “invisible radioactive death” will be continued. See please the results one more the IAEA inspection to Ukraine.
4. Kiev continues to attack ZNPP. Grossi turns a blind eye again
Kiev regime continues its provocations aimed at creating a possible technological disaster at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. During the day, artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have fired nine shells at the industrial zone of the thermal power plant of the city of Energodar and the territory adjacent to the nuclear power plant.
The shooting was carried out from the Ukrainian-controlled areas of the settlements of Marganets and Chervonogrigorovka, Dnepropetrovsk region. The hostile firepower has been neutralised by Russian artillery's counter-attack.
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
