The writer and political analyst Yevgeny Sidrov denied that Russia had anything to do with the bombing of the port of Odessa with missiles, based on the statement of Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, who said that Moscow had nothing to do with the incident after he contacted a Russian military source.
The Ukrainian army had revealed that Russian missiles had targeted the infrastructure in the port of Odessa on the Black Sea, stressing that its air defenses had dropped a number of missiles in the sky of the city.
According to the same guest, there is no confirmation or denial so far by Russia regarding the bombing of the Odessa port, and that the official position of the Russian Ministry of Defense must be awaited.
In his speech to an episode of "Beyond the News" program, Sidorov read the incident as an attempt to provoke Russia and accuse it of deliberately escalating the issue of suspended Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea ports due to Moscow's war on Kyiv.
He expressed his astonishment that the incident came hours after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement brokered by Turkey and under the auspices of the United Nations in Istanbul, to secure the export of suspended Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports, noting that Russia confirmed that it does not intend to use grain transport corridors for military purposes, and there is monitoring On the issue by Turkey and the United Nations.
The Russian guest added that the opportunity is still ripe for implementing the grain agreement, provided that the mechanism for its implementation includes countries that are not subject to what he called an attempt to politicize the food problem.
No guarantees for the implementation of the grain agreement
As for Professor of Law and Political Science, Professor Valentin Yakushek - who was speaking from Kiev - he mocked the words of the Russian guest in which he denied his country's involvement in the bombing of the Odessa port by saying that there was a third force and people who came from Mars and hit the port, noting that Russia did not bomb export facilities. wheat, but bombed Ukrainian ships.
Yakushek spoke about the differences in Russia, Ukraine and the United Nations regarding the view of the course of the Russian war on Ukraine and dealing with the various problems and repercussions of this war.
On whether the bombing of the Odessa port will reflect on the grain agreement, Youssef Al-Abarda, a strategic analyst and Turkish military expert, indicated that there are no guarantees for the implementation of the agreement, because Russia invaded a country, but the United Nations will monitor what happens in the port of Odessa.
Alabarda said that very great efforts were made on the table in order to reach an agreement to export Ukrainian grain, and there is optimism that this agreement will succeed in the end, otherwise it will be a disaster for countries, especially African ones.
Russia and Ukraine had signed, under Turkish mediation and UN sponsorship, in Istanbul an agreement to secure the exit of millions of tons of grain from Ukrainian ports.