Global Food and Energy Security

Russia has spent December launching repeated drone strikes on the Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukraine’s chief grain-export hub, damaging export infrastructure, storage reservoirs and local power grids and killing or injuring dozens of people just as President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Mar-a-Lago to seek more U.S. support from President Donald Trump. Analysts say the targeted campaign reflects Moscow’s growing focus on degrading Ukraine’s economy by hitting its primary maritime ‘lifeline’ to global markets, threatening grain flows that underpin both Kyiv’s finances and international food supplies.