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00:00Can you tell us why the Black Sea is so important to today's negotiations?
00:06When the Russian Federation began its attack on the 24th of February 2022, part of it was
00:14targeted toward Odessa, the main Black Sea seaport, along with other smaller ports along
00:22the Ukraine's Black Sea.
00:26And then there were issues relating to the movement of agricultural commodities from
00:32Ukraine through the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus, and then to markets onward.
00:39The Russian Federation started basically threatening and then attacking the shipping, the commercial
00:47shipping.