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(LifeSiteNews) — This week has seen major tensions arise over the export of Ukrainian grains to the EU. With more countries now effectively banning the sale of Ukrainian grain, the east-west split in the European Union is once again in the news.
Four EU nations have refused to accept massive amounts of cheap Ukrainian wheat, maize and sunflower seeds, which is instead being driven overland. Meanwhile a nightmare bottleneck is building up in the Black Sea gateway ports of NATO-ally Turkey.
Easing the bottleneck
The creation of a supply corridor for Ukrainian grain through four Black Sea ports was arranged by Turkey with Russia, under the auspices of the United Nations. Ostensibly to forestall a global food shortage, it has resulted in strained relations between EU member states and their European managers, whose pro-war policies are enacted regardless of cost.
Ukraine has supplied almost 28 million tons of grain through this arrangement so far, in response to a bottleneck in grain supplies announced in Ukraine last year. A global food crisis was touted, with Russia being blamed for starving countries
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