I found some interesting facts while interpreting information in a video from RealLifeLore called ”How Ukraine is Breaking Through Russia’s Naval Blockade” and I connected them to some interesting recent news from the 25th of July up to the 27th of July, on Sveriges Radios SR;Ekot.
The first article reads (and it is a translated article, as are they all):
Published Tuesday July 25 at 6.45 PM
Putin to discuss Ukraine with African leaders
Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the war in Ukraine with several African leaders. This will take place at a dinner during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday, July 28th.
The information comes from a statement from the Kremlin’s foreign policy advisor, according to the Reuters news agency.
49 African countries are to attend and it is believed to be largely about the grain agreement that Russia recently withdrew from.
The second article reads:
Published Wednesday July 26 at 2:28 PM
NATO and Ukraine discuss grain corridor
The NATO-Ukraine Council is currently meeting in Brussels to discuss the security situation in the Black Sea.
The need to establish a secure grain corridor will be discussed, according to the NATO spokesperson.
The agreement that Russia and Ukraine signed in 2022 has not been extended, and Russia announces that all ships arriving at Ukrainian ports will be viewed as potential military targets.
The third article has been removed and it is unclear when exactly it was published, but somewhere between the 26th and the 27th of July. The article’s headline reads:
”Putin promises free grain to several African countries”
The fourth article reads:
Published Thursday July 27 at 7:29 AM
Putin is looking for alliances in Africa – now the summit begins
The Russian-Africa summit, which brings together leaders from Africa and Russia, opens in Saint Petersburg on Thursday.
As Russia becomes more isolated in the outside world, Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly turning to Africa.
But according to the Financial Times newspaper, fewer than half of the African leaders who signed up for the meeting, plan to show up, while Kremlin is saying the West has influenced them.
The fifth article reads:
Published Thursday July 27 at 8.13 AM
Russian missile attack on Ukrainian port city – one person dead
In the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, important infrastructure has been damaged in a Russian missile attack during the night, the region’s governor says, according to Reuters.
One person is said to have been killed in the attack, which is said to have been aimed at a cargo terminal.
Odessa’s port has come under several attacks after Russia last week did not extend the grain deal that previously allowed Ukraine to ship grain safely through the Black Sea.
End of articles
So what is Putin up to?
Clear as hell is that Putin wants to sever the Ukrainian ties with African and Middle Eastern grain beneficiaries, and limit Ukraine’s influence in its southern sphere in order to isolate Zelensky and Ukraine. That is the ultimate short-time goal for Putin. It is probably going to lead to starvation in some poverty-stricken places and for some indigent families, and that is why Putin allegedly was promising free grain to several African countries. But he didn’t promise free food out of the goodness of his heart! He did it to tie the African nations to Russia’s influence sphere, simultaneously with his thwarting of Ukraine’s existing influence sphere in Africa and some Muslim countries, and also the West.
So why did Sveriges Radio remove the content in the article called ”Putin promises free grain to several African countries”?
I don’t know.
Is it because of a Ukrainian and Western clandestine counter-plan, and they don’t want to alert the Kremlin about it?
Is it because Ukraine and the West are lacking a good plan right now, and they don’t want to alert the Kremlin about it?
Is it a non-causal coincidence?
Is there anything to gain from it, by the US I suppose, so that the US has put pressure on Sveriges Radio leaving Sveriges Radio none the wiser?
Could there be another reason?
I am going to reach out so that I don’t unnecessarily reveal anything delicate for the Ukrainians. I know that the armed forces in Sweden and the Swedish secret service MUST, have a policy of keeping information a one-way streak. But I am going to ask them if it is appropriate to reveal this information right now. If they give me the answer ”Yes”, or if they do not answer at all, I will publish this on several platforms, audio and blog, come this weekend. If they say ”No”, I will not publish this text at all right at this moment in time. This text so far will reach them at latest tomorrow Monday the 31st of July.
And the sources for this lesson were:
RealLifeLore
And
SR;Ekot
Roger Klang
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/putin-soker-allianser-i-afrika-toppmote-inleds-i-dag
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/rysk-missilattack-mot-ukrainsk-hamnstad-en-person-dod
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/putin-lovar-gratis-spannmal-till-flera-afrikanska-lander
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/nato-och-ukraina-diskuterar-spannmalskorridor
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/putin-ska-diskutera-ukraina-med-afrikanska-ledare