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HitgeopoliticsRussia will shift its strikes in Ukraine toward the agricultural supply-chain system during the 2023 warm-season counter-offensive phase.
A scored prediction by Peter Zeihan, made on .
Scored prediction
Hitgeopolitics“the Russians are going to switch their targets to facilities that are more difficult to defend and that is the agricultural supply chain system”
Russia will shift its strikes in Ukraine toward the agricultural supply-chain system during the 2023 warm-season counter-offensive phase.
- Made on
- 2023-05-09
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
- Effect on score
- +2.86
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2023-09-30
Russia conducts a sustained campaign of strikes against Ukrainian agricultural supply-chain infrastructure (grain storage/ports/logistics) during summer/autumn 2023.
Criterion = Russia conducts a SUSTAINED campaign of strikes against Ukrainian agricultural supply-chain infrastructure (grain storage/ports/logistics) during summer/autumn 2023. Met: a documented, sustained strike campaign began 18 Jul 2023 (right after grain-deal exit) and continued through August (Odesa) and September (Danube ports Izmail/Reni), hitting grain terminals, storage, and 180,000+ tonnes of grain. Multiple independent primary/credible sources (UN Security Council, PBS, NBC, USNI, Al Jazeera). Falls within the deadline window (made 2023-05-09, deadline 2023-09-30). Resolved_on set to 2023-09-30 (end of the campaign-confirmation window; the campaign was clearly established by late July and sustained through September). Outcome value/scoring deferred to later stage.
Sources
Ukraine War Updates Part 1: The Inevitables || Peter Zeihan
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Evidence of what happened
Immediately after exiting the grain deal (17 Jul 2023), Russia launched intense drone/missile strikes (overnight 18-19 Jul and following nights) on grain and oil export terminals at Odesa and nearby Chornomorsk, destroying ~60,000 tonnes of grain per Ukraine's Agriculture Ministry — explicitly targeting agricultural export infrastructure.
UN Security Council briefing documents the 23 July 2023 strikes on Odesa port and grain-storage facilities; Ukraine reported Russia hit 26 port facilities, 5 civilian vessels and 180,000 tonnes of grain within 9 days of withdrawing from the deal — a concentrated campaign against the agricultural supply chain.
Campaign sustained into autumn: September 2023 overnight drone strikes hit Danube River grain-export ports Izmail and Reni (storage facilities and 30+ trucks damaged) — the 'latest in a series of attacks on Ukrainian grain and port facilities since July 2023.' Confirms strikes continued through summer into autumn 2023, targeting grain logistics.
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
+2.86- How sure they sounded
- 85%
- Outcome
- Hit
- Importance
- 3 / 5
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Where this came from
Russia will shift its strikes in Ukraine toward the agricul…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2023-05-09
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