Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday, the Kremlin announced Friday, just over six weeks after Moscow broke off a deal partly brokered by Ankara that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets despite the 18-month war.
A separate memorandum between the UN and Russia, agreed at the same time, pledged to overcome obstacles to Moscow's shipment of food and fertilizer to world markets.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent Russia a new proposal in hopes of reviving the deal but it didn't satisfy Moscow's demands, Lavrov said then. Meanwhile, Russian officials said Friday that air defences intercepted drones heading toward three of the country's western regions. Regional governors said defence systems stopped three drones in the Kursk, Belgorod and Moscow regions.
The apparent Ukrainian strategy is to unnerve Russia and pile pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin, although Kyiv officials normally neither claim nor deny responsibility for attacks on Russian soil. The images taken Thursday show Princess Olga Pskov International Airport, which is a dual military-civilian airport about 700 kilometres north of the Ukrainian border and near Estonia and Latvia.
Eleven other Il-76s had been moved off their parking pads into different positions on the airport's taxiways, possibly in an attempt to make it more difficult for them to be struck again. One was on the runway itself. Another Il-76 remained on the pad, though it wasn't clear why.The satellite image was taken at 1303 GMT Thursday. Videos on social media Thursday night showed anti-aircraft fire going around the air base again, though it remained unclear whether it was another attack.
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