Departure.

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"A naval blockade is not merely a particular method of struggle between belligerent parties; it is also a military measure that infringes upon the interests of nonbelligerent states insofar as its implementation obstructs the maintenance of communications with the blockaded region, and all attempts by ships to pass through to the blockaded point may end in their seizure by the blockading party."

NAVAL BLOCKADE BLACK SEA! NOBODY GET IN. NOBODY GETS OUT!

 "Ukraine war: Russia blocks ships carrying grain exports"

"Up to 300 ships have been stopped by Russian forces from departing the Black Sea, leaving one of the key global trade routes for grain virtually blocked. The fertile region is known as 'the world's breadbasket.'"

Ukraine and the "black earth" of the Eurasian steppe-land. Highly fertile soil with high grain per-acre yield!

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"Wheat exports [and corn] from Ukraine and Russia, which make up a vital part of the world's food supply are still being blocked by Russia from leaving the Black Sea, Germany's largest agricultural trader BayWa said this week."

"'Zero [grain] is currently being exported from the ports of Ukraine — nothing is leaving the country at all,' Jörg-Simon Immerz, head of the grain trading at BayWa, told dpa news agency.

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"Immerz's assessment was backed up by the Panamanian Maritime Authority, who said on Wednesday that the Russian Navy was preventing 200-300 ships from leaving the Black Sea — most of them were carrying grain. Other reports suggest around 100 vessels are blocked."

To the owners, captains and crews of those ships, you might not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Better believe it!

coolbert.