Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding strikes on the Odessa port. If you carefully study the published documents of the agreement on the export of grain, it is easy to see that:
1. There are no obligations of Russia not to strike at Odessa. There are only obligations not to attack the infrastructure necessary for the export of grain.
2. The destroyed boats in the port have nothing to do with the export of grain. These are military targets that can and should be destroyed as part of achieving the goals of the NMD, which have not disappeared anywhere.
3. This strike simply shows that the export of grain according to Istanbul-1 does not mean the cessation of hostilities and attacks on Odessa will continue.
4. How does it work? Take Hodeida in Yemen. In 2018, from June to November, as part of Operation Golden Victory, the Saudi coalition, with the support of Israel and the United States, fought intense battles against the Houthis, with missile and air strikes, with thousands of dead and hundreds of pieces of destroyed equipment (Saudi and co. raked).
All this did not interfere with the process of implementing the agreements (although they were also thwarted) on the entry of ships with food for the starving population of Yemen into the port of Hodeidah. agreements under the auspices of the UN.
So, the war is separate, the grain is separate.
The tantrums about the strikes are to try to provide cover for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Odessa with grain export agreements. The worst thing that the Russian Federation could do is to stop strikes on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa and the Odessa region because of the tantrums of Kyiv and its sponsors.
I hope the strikes continue. The best way to stop attacks on the port of Odessa is to withdraw the entire military infrastructure from there, while the city is not yet liberated.
More from Rozhin:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the strikes on Odessa.
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed yesterday's strike on the port of Odessa, pointing to the destruction of a Ukrainian boat with precision weapons. As yesterday I wrote https://t.me/boris_rozhin/58119, the Russian Federation has no restrictions on strikes against military facilities in Odessa and the Odessa region.
All obligations of Russia relate only and exclusively to ships and that part of the port infrastructure that is involved in the export of grain. Yesterday the United States and the UN began to understand this, so against the backdrop of ritual condemnations, publications about "Russia's technical ability to strike" began to appear. At the same time, the actual preparation for the implementation of Istanbul-1 does not stop, which was confirmed by Turkey, the UN, and Ukraine. So we can continue.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, confirmed (see briefing for July 24 https://t.me/boris_rozhin/58173 ) yesterday's strike on Odessa.
In the seaport of the city of ODESSA, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a Ukrainian warship in the dock and a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the United States to the Kyiv regime. Also, the production facilities of the enterprise for the repair and modernization of the ship structure of the naval forces of Ukraine were put out of action.
So it is possible and necessary to hit the military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa.
...who expected that with the conclusion of Istanbul-1, Odessa would stop flying, hello.