Russia Ukraine war, page-181016

you are right of course ....they would be keen to see the embarrasment of no-one worrying about doing deals with them over grain stopped - but the problem for them is to do it without taking the blame - russia don't want to piss off any more countries than they already have
by sinking a ship they can annoy the ship country owners +where the grain was meant to be headed to

I imagine if it is attempted they will try and blame Ukraine ....sea mines for instance ....russia can say ,"one of theirs"
what's one more lie to putin ?
he's going to hell anyway ....(a special section put aside for the russian orthodox )