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#Ukraine: After the NATO summit, Russia blocks the grain deal.. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation.com

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

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#Ukraine: After the NATO summit, Russia blocks the grain deal.. Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation.com
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/black-sea-grain-deal-expire-monday-if-russia-quits-2023-07-17/

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0:00.0

This is CBS I On The World with John Bacheler.

0:10.0

Here's John Bacheler.

0:12.7

Dateline Moscow, a deal allowing the Safe Black Sea export of Ukraine's grain for the past

0:18.3

year expired within these last hours.

0:22.7

After Russia quit and warned it could not guarantee the safety of ships in a move that the

0:27.5

United Nations said would, quote, strike a blow to people in need everywhere.

0:32.8

I welcome Katrina Venenhovil, the editorial director and publisher of the Nation magazine,

0:38.4

much experienced in Russian culture and Russian ways.

0:42.9

This in particular strikes me as completely outside of an understanding of what warmaking

0:49.5

is.

0:50.5

This is making war on people with starvation in mind.

0:55.6

Katrina, a very good evening to you.

0:57.3

I don't seek to explain it.

0:59.9

I'm just dealing with it.

1:01.1

What do we do now?

1:02.1

Well, first of all, the humanitarian crisis is grim.

1:05.2

There is famine in Somalia.

1:06.9

There are other ways this deal will pace and worsen an already crisis situation.

1:13.4

The deal has come within days of expiring twice before in November and in March.

1:18.7

And each time Russia agreed to extend it, but the March extension came with a warning at

1:22.8

Moscow.

1:23.8

So there are new deal would expire in 60 days if the UN failed to resolve, quote, systemic

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