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Putin doesn't wanna intervene with Ukraine's exports, specially wheat. He doesn't wanna stop Ukraine from exporting to "friendly countries".

Besides, Putin is losing the remainder of any common sense and is driven by pure revenge and leftovers of his imperial ambitions.

People unfortunately will keep dying until he will be wiped away into oblivion of his soviet communist criminal legacy mindset.

Your point is countered by him sparing Odessa.

Putin will be remembered in history as a brutish thug who needlessly destroyed a developed European country no matter what he does to Odessa.