War/Trade always returns to money. Apparently the Ukrainians don't like the overland routes for their goods...

The corruption of the grain deal explained:
- 🇺🇦 transferred 63,000,000t agricultural products to 🇪🇺
- 🇺🇦 received $26 billion from the 🇪🇺
- 🇪🇺 has sent 23,000,000t back to 🇺🇦 in solidarity
- 🇺🇦 has paid $48 billion to the 🇪🇺 for the solidarity
-> Ukraine has lost $22 billion! pic.twitter.com/NuTH3Nx549

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 17, 2023

I could easily be wrong on how I'm reading this so let me put that up front.

A little background.

I wondered why the Ukrainians would attack the bridge in Crimea when this issue was looming over their heads.  On a personal note I've been hanging my hat on the fact that so many worldwide depend on Ukrainian/Russian grain/cooking oil that it would force the UN to step in (at the behest of China's pushing) to turn the war off.

Having said all that.  

This is just another widget into the insane decisions that are being made in Kyiv.

If you hate the overland route and the way that trade is going with the EU (that is a totally different set of issues...Ukrainian grain has tilted markets so badly that farmers in the EU are being hurt, they even had protests over this) then I ask again, why would you commit such a provocative act when you need Russians to sell your goods worldwide, not just in the EU?

This explains why Russia bolted on the deal. I think its pure retaliation for the strike on the bridge though.

⚡️Kremlin says Russia's military believes Ukraine used grain corridor for “military purposes” — Reuters

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) July 18, 2023