Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to hold talks Wednesday with Turkish officials on a plan that could allow Ukraine to export its grain through the Black Sea to global markets amid an escalating food crisis.
An estimated 22 million tons of grains are sitting in silos in Ukraine.
A top Russian official said Tuesday that Ukraine needs to remove sea mines near its Black Sea port of Odesa to allow grain exports to resume. Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Tuesday that technical details were still being worked out. "Turkey really needs Russia's blessing in order to be able to carry on this operation And so I think they're really going to try to get that kind of a concession out of the Russian side," said Merve Tahiroglu, Turkey program coordinator at Project on Middle East Democracy.
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