Russia resumed the Black Sea grain initiative due to pressure from emerging economies such as Turkey, the Oxford Economics think tank said.
As a beneficiary both geopolitically and economically, Turkey"would thus not want to see it collapse," the think tank said. This showed it was"much harder" for Russia to reimpose a blockade"without severely damaging its reputation with the 'collective South', compared to the confusion in the early days of the war."that the suddenness of the U-turn suggested that international pressure had been more persuasive than Russia's motivation to weaken Ukraine.
Departing from Ukrainian ports a day before Russia announced that it was temporarily suspending the Grain Corridor Agreement, the ship ASL TIA crossed the Bosphorus on Wednesday afternoon on November 2, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Oxford Economics think tank said Russia had bowed to pressure from emerging economies to return to the deal.Since the start of his full-scale invasion, Putin has pushed the narrative that the world was moving away from being dominated by the, the U.S. and its allies.
Russia's U-turn came after a convoy of ships moved a record amount of grain in defiance of Moscow's warnings that it would be unsafe without its participation.that Turkey's leadership had"underlined that they would use military might and their global influence to continue shipments with or without Russian participation" and"if necessary, utilize force to safeguard and protect uninterrupted flows.
In his nightly address, Zelensky said on Wednesday that Moscow's U-turn on the grain deal showed"the failure of the Russian aggression."
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