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                                                    THE BLACK SEA GRAIN     INITIATIVE How it started and why it ended       Articlე by Agnieszka Kopertowska-Latoszek                    and Vakhtang Maisaia   July 2023 Introduction Whatever you call it, an unprovoked Russian full-scale invasion on Ukraine or a Special Military Operation in Ukraine, the aftermath is the same. February 24 th 2022 was the day when people started being killed in regular military actions, many had to leave their homes both to seek safe shelter abroad or to be deployed to the battlefield. Many buildings, roads, bridges, farmlands, factories, power plants started to be military targets rather than objects that serve the people like they should. Ever after the whole Europe...

  Ihor Chudyk professor, rector of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas   Ukraine can already include the beginning of a fundamental reformatting of the pan-European energy model among its victories in this war.   With the war started against us, r ussia personally destroyed the myth , that Europe cannot live without its energy carriers. Ukraine showed an example by disconnecting itself from the aggressor's energy system from the very beginning of a full-scale military invasion. Under the enemy's endless aimed fire, we keep the energy sector running.     That is unbelievable horrors , committed by r ussian army , - the mass murders of peaceful Ukrainians, torture s , abuse s of children, the destruction of our cities and villages – that forced European politicians to face the truth: the militarist monster with its machine of propagandizing lies and violence, with dis regard of all moral and legal standards , grew...