• manxu@piefed.social
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    No confirmation of hits in the article. But it sounds like the Russian Black Sea Fleet now only has one safe space, at the bottom of it.

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    And took out civilians and grain silos terminals

    https://www.reuters.com/world/drones-hit-residential-buildings-russias-black-sea-port-novorossiysk-mayor-says-2026-08-12/

    And also going to cause economic issues for the world

    Because Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, the strikes on the grain terminals raised fears ​of a disruption to global supplies. Chicago wheat futures rose around 3% on Wednesday after the attack on Novorossiysk.

    Russia’s agriculture ministry said it was working ​to redirect export flows to alternative routes. Russia’s main grain lobby group warned last month that Ukrainian attacks could shut down Black Sea grain exports, pushing up prices and causing hunger in Africa and the Middle East.

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      2 people and from the article it was locating in a shipping terminal that handles grain. Not grain silos themselves. So it’s more a disruption to the logistics

      It’s a war, and putting military assets next to civilian and commercial resources is unethical to use them as a shield to prevent attacks.

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        Right, grain terminals are much larger than silos tyty for pointing that out.

        And it doesn’t look so much like hitting military assets because they’re a shield as going for both to try and get them to negotiate.