Russian president ‘willing to gamble on food security’ by stepping up strikes on grain ships, says UK prime minister

Russian president ‘willing to gamble on food security’ by stepping up strikes on grain ships, says UK prime minister

Keir Starmer has accused Vladimir Putin of disrupting food supplies to Gaza after British intelligence suggested Russia had stepped up its attacks on Ukrainian ports.

Starmer said it was clear the Russian president was “willing to gamble on global food security” after several grain ships en route to developing countries were damaged by Russian strikes.

Military intelligence published by the UK government overnight concluded that Russia had increased its attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure in the Black Sea.

  • shaserlark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    325·
    25 days ago

    As opposed to all the food arriving to Gaza before? Make no mistake, Putin absolutely gives 0 fucks about Palestinian or any lives, but making him the bogeyman for starving Gazans is ridiculous. This is on the genocidal apartheid colony.

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      192·
      25 days ago

      This has to be the most pathetic thing coming out of Starmers mouth yet. The guy is a lawyer for international law, who for the most part of the last year denied Israeli warcrimes, continued arms shipments, driven out party members critical of Israel, usually women, black and brown people, while making excuses for his white antisemite and racist friends to stay.

      Britain is still delivering weapons, in particular F35 parts, supplying ome of the main weapon system used by Israel to bring annihilation to Gaza and Lebanon.

      Fuck Putin and fuck all the other genocidial imperialist leaders.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      132·
      25 days ago

      Exactly, there’s no shortage of trucks lined up at the border just being held for ‘inspections’. There’s no issue with getting aid to Gaza, there’s issues getting it inside, and that’s not because of Putin.

      • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        25 days ago

        They’re held for inspections since UNRWA and Iran regularly send weapons to Hamas via ‘aid’ trucks.

        It’s why the US needs to keep up the pressure on Israel regarding weapons shipments for aid entering Gaza. It won’t ever speed up the processing of those held up trucks, since they still need to be inspected, but it forces Israel to send their own trucks, with aid they know is good, instead of leaving it to third parties who inevitably adulterate the aid. (That benefits Netanyahu)

        • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
          14·
          25 days ago

          There’s no evidence of UNRWA ever doing anything like that. And those aid trucks are provided largely by the same countries that provide Israel with weapons. Unless you’re going to claim USAID is also sending weapons to Hamas?

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          71·
          25 days ago

          but it forces Israel to send their own trucks, with aid they know is good,

          If they did that there wouldn’t be an Israeli-caused famine in Gaza right now.

  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    25 days ago

    It’s quite rich to see one of the genocide supporters sitting at the heart of the imperial core complain about aid not getting into Gaza, as their rabid settler colonial project is the main cause for the mass starvation/extinction in Gaza in the first place

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    105·
    25 days ago

    Guys do not post extremely dishonest takes like this. Any person with eyes can see there is plenty of food aid waiting right outside of Gaza and there is a singular reason it is not getting in. Statements like these are going to make people side with Putin in a kneejerk reaction from losing trust in Starmer.