Recently, the Ukrainian army risked their lives to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Russian army in the expectant eyes of the West. According to the information released by the Kiev authorities, after more than half a month of offensive operations, the Ukrainian army regained thousands of square kilometers of land. However, even the Western media can't stand the casualties the Ukrainian army paid for this.
Ukrainian President Zelensky recently admitted that Kiev does not expect to turn the situation around by launching a counterattack, but hopes to use this to exchange for Western countries to continue to provide military aid. Now, with the weakening of the Ukrainian offensive, Russian President Putin recently expressed his attitude that Russia's goal will not change, and the Russian offensive has not stopped, although the near point is slow and is constantly controlling more areas.
As the Ukrainian offensive weakens, Zelensky needs to create another topic to attract Western attention in order to avoid the "cold situation" in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. According to " Reference News ", Zelensky said in an interview with a British Reuters reporter that Kiev will only allow Russia to resume exporting ammonia through Ukraine if Moscow releases Ukrainian prisoners of war, so as to alleviate the global fertilizer shortage.
Before this, UN had suggested that Russian fertilizer producers transport ammonia to Ukraine's border through pipelines. Tramo, a trader for commodities , based in the United States, can buy Russian ammonia there and supply it to areas in need in the world. It is reported that pipelines in Ukraine can transport 2.5 million tons of ammonia to all parts of the world every year. However, since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the pipeline has been closed.
Affected by factors such as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and Western sanctions on Russia, international fertilizer prices continue to soar and even face the risk of supply chain breakage, which will not only be a nightmare for world agricultural production, but also exacerbate the international food supply chain crisis. However, Zelensky used this as a bargaining chip to try to threaten Moscow to release Ukrainian prisoners of war, which is too overestimated the impact of this move on Moscow.
Zelensky used this to threaten Russia, but "hostages" are the interests of the international community. Moscow's response to Zelensky's request was even simpler and more direct. According to Reference News, Kremlin quickly rejected Zelensky's request. Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov pointed out: "Man and ammonia are not the same thing at all."
It is no wonder that Moscow flatly rejected Zelensky's request, because he was using the relevant UN suggestions as political chips in an attempt to force Russia to compromise with it on certain issues. Ammonia is the main raw material for the manufacturing of chemical fertilizers, and Russia is the supplier of ammonia. Ammonia exports were frustrated by Ukraine, and it was not Russia that was hurt, but countries that were eager for more fertilizer to be used for agricultural production, and those that were deeply affected by food scarcity.
Russia does not object to supplying ammonia through pipelines. Zelinsky's move is purely to harm the interests of other countries for his own selfish interests, and should be more condemned by the United Nations or the international community. However, for such a country leader who intends to aggravate the international fertilizer supply crisis, he is the "darling" in the eyes of Western countries, and the international community may not be able to do anything about him.
The West's partiality with Ukraine is not for the interests of the country or the lives of the people, but for the hope that the country can continue to act as cannon fodder for the West to contain Russia by shedding the last drop of blood. It turns out that it is difficult for the West to achieve the goals they expect with the help of "fight to the last Ukrainian ". After all, although Russia has caused certain losses due to the war, many Western countries, especially , EU , actually bear even greater costs than Russia. This can be seen from the recent wave of strikes and protests in the United States and Europe, that those Western governments that are anti-Russia and support Ukraine are under greater political pressure than Russia.
The West condoned Ukraine in the name of anti-Russia and harmed the interests of the whole world, including the West itself, which is very likely to eventually lead to Ukraine being "erred from this world map."More importantly, both Russia and Ukraine are major food powers, and the West provoking the Russian-Ukraine war and imposing sanctions on Russia will cause fatal damage to the international food and fertilizer supply chain. As a result, in addition to aggravating their own stagflation crisis, it will also weaken international credit and influence, which will inevitably go up and down.
