They're

 

taking him seriously.

Notice we didn't send anything 

into the Black Sea 

pre-Hamas attack?

But to the Mediterranean instead?

I wonder why that was?

Ukraine halts new Black Sea grain corridor 

due to Russian warplane threat

“We would like to inform you of a temporary suspension of vessel traffic to and from (the ports). The current ban is in force on October 26, but it is possible that it will be extended,” the consultancy said on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukrainian officials were not immediately available for comment."

"The consultancy said a de facto suspension had already been in place for two days at the behest of the military which cited a threat from increased Russian military aviation activity in the area."

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said last week that he had ordered Russian warplanes with Kinzhal missiles to patrol the Black Sea."

"Ukraine launched a “humanitarian corridor” for ships bound for African and Asian markets in August to try to circumvent a de facto blockade in the Black Sea after Russia quit a deal that had guaranteed Kyiv’s seaborne exports during the war.

Later, a senior agricultural official said the route would also be used for grain shipments.

Ukrainian officials and shipping sources say more than 40 cargo vessels have entered the corridor so far and 1.5 million metric tons of cargo have left Ukrainian seaports via the corridor.

Grain, oilseed, vegetable oils, meals have dominated the shipments."

"Ukrainian agricultural producers this week said the new route could enable exports of up to 2.5 million tons of food a month, almost offsetting the impact of Russia’s decision to quit the previous UN-brokered deal."

"The first deputy farm minister Taras Vysotskiy said on Wednesday grain shipments through the corridor could exceed one million tons in October."

Meanwhile...

Russian Planes Reportedly Dropped Mines 

Along Ukraine’s Safe Corridor For Grain Ships

"Russian planes reportedly have mined the maritime corridor that Ukraine established in the western Black Sea in order to safeguard the export of grain to Europe and Africa. It seems to be the first time in Russia’s 21-month wider war that the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s aircraft have deployed sea mines."

"Ukraine’s southern command reported the ominous development on Wednesday. “The enemy ... dropped four unidentified means of impact, probably bottom mines, in the Black Sea ... in the direction of navigation corridors of civil shipping,” the command stated."

"The mines could impede, or even halt, Ukrainian grain shipments along the corridor—with huge implications for Ukraine’s economy, as well as for world hunger. Ukraine is a major supplier of grain to Africa, in particular."

"The western Black Sea has been a battleground ever since Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022. Despite scuttling its sole large warship, a gun-armed frigate, the Ukrainian navy has successfully forced Russian ships out of the western Black Sea."

"Deploying ground-launched ballistic missiles, air-launched cruise missiles, drones and explosives-laden robotic boats, the Ukrainian fleet has sunk or badly damaged six of the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s 30 or so large warships—a cruiser, three amphibious ships, a submarine and a supply ship—plus several patrol boats and landing craft."

(Nazi Germany used the Spanish civil war to try out tactics and new weapons. Tactical setbacks aside, Russia now knows how we will respond to what they do.

They lost 27 million people in WW2.

Not the COD video game.

Actual people in an actual war.

Their ability to take losses and proceed undeterred can not be "OVERBLOWN.")

"Ukrainian forces apparently detected whatever Russian planes deployed the alleged mines, but weren’t able to intercept them."

(Why not?)

"The Ukrainians have denied the Russians full control of the western Black Sea, but haven’t exerted their own full control. Long-range Russian air-defenses in occupied Crimea still make air patrols over the Black Sea risky for the Ukrainian air force."

"The Ukrainian navy recently acquired two ex-British minesweepers, but both vessels and their crews are in British waters, training and awaiting the day when it’s safe to sail into the Black Sea."

(Might be a minute yo...)

"The two lightly-armed Sandown-class vessels wouldn’t last long in contested waters."

"The Ukrainians have other means of clearing sea mines, including divers and small undersea drones that the United Kingdom donated last year. Expect those forces to get to work reopening the grain corridor. But also expect the Russians to drop more mines."

Here is the thing for all the brainiacs out there:

If Russia is loosing as badly as our state owned and ran propaganda machine wants you to believe?

Then why do we keep sending more and more advanced weaponry to the Ukrainians?

You think we can just keep on doing this forever?

With Israel and Hamas coming up?

And Taiwan and China in the not to distant future?