While Ukraine has traditionally exported its enormous grain harvest by the Black Sea, Russia’s occupation and the collapse of the grain deal has seen it looking to the Danube River on which bulk carrier ships can navigate cargo at least as far as Bavaria in Germany. Reacting to this, Russia in its policy of blockade has started striking those inland river ports too in a bid to prevent Ukraine earning foreign currency with imports.
Yet some of Ukraine’s Danube River ports butt right up to NATO’s border: the Port of Reni in the Odessa Oblast is just yards away from Romania. Indeed, at this point of the Danube, the Ukraine-Romania border runs down the middle of the river…Read More!
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