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Turkey announced that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "very soon" will visit Russia, where he will hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on the revival of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain, an agreement that can be used as a springboard for further negotiations. wide peace with Ukraine.
Erdogan's party spokesman, Omer Celin, told reporters that the meeting will be held in Sochi, a Russian city on the Black Sea, and will focus on the current food crisis.
"As you know, [Erdogan] will visit Sochi very soon," Celik told reporters.
Bloomberg news agency earlier reported that Erdogan may meet with Putin on September 8.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that preparations for the meeting are "intense," but did not provide details on when and where the two leaders will meet.
Erdogan has used his good relations with Moscow and Kiev to try to persuade both sides to hold formal peace talks.
The Turkish leader last met with Putin in Astana, Kazakhstan, in October last year.
The two leaders also held a teleconference in April to inaugurate a Russian-built nuclear power plant.
Turkey helped negotiate the first agreement between Ukraine and Russia since Moscow launched an unprovoked invasion of its neighbor in February 2022. The agreement allowed grain exports from three Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea.
Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of agricultural products, and this agreement enabled the reduction of world food prices.
However, Moscow pulled out of the deal last month, saying its demands aimed at easing the export of Russian agricultural products and artificial fertilizers had not been met.
Since then, Russia has repeatedly attacked infrastructure in Ukraine's ports and has warned that it may target ships passing through the Black Sea as military targets.
However, Turkey has not given up trying to revive the agreement. Last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stayed in Kiev to try to persuade Ukraine to join the talks.
During the visit, Fidan also called on Ukraine not to create new export routes - reportedly supported by the United States and the European Union - for its ships unless Russia is included in the deal by the autumn.
Fidan is expected to stay in Moscow in the coming days.
Since Russia withdrew from the agreement, Ukraine uses land routes and river transport to export its products. /REL
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