ANALYSIS – Since the beginning of the summer, Vladimir Putin has seen his allies in the West strengthen and his adversaries fall one after the other.
The war in Ukraine is taking place not only on the battlefield but also in the economic and political sphere. If the Russian army, since the beginning of the war, has struggled against the fierce resistance of the Ukrainian forces, the Kremlin has recently scored points on other grounds.
The departure, Monday 1er August, for the first time since the beginning of the war, by a grain ship from the port of Odessa, is rightly considered good news. But if Moscow, which since February 24 has been blocking Ukrainian ports, has agreed to sign an agreement with Ukraine, under the aegis of the UN, it is because the Kremlin had an interest in it. Vladimir Putin needed to give a pledge to his allies in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, the first concerned in the event of a global food crisis. In exchange for this show of “goodwill”, Russia obtained the promise of sanctions relief, in particular for its exports of agricultural products and fertilizers…
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