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FollowBlack Sea Grain Initiative and post-2023 Black Sea grain corridor
Ukraine's post-deal maritime corridor remains the main export route despite attacks
Key takeaways
- The deal's collapse did not end Ukrainian seaborne exports; it shifted them into a riskier unilateral corridor that later became central to global grain flows.
- Black Sea grain diplomacy keeps resurfacing because maritime safety is still tied to wider bargaining over Russian banking, fertilizer and shipping access.
- This topic sits at the intersection of war, food security and sanctions policy, so changes in shipping guarantees quickly affect export capacity and political leverage.
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