Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Russia soon and meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the collapsed United Nations deal that had allowed Black Sea exports of Ukrainian grain, a spokesperson for Türkiye's ruling AK Party said on Monday.
The UN- and Türkiye-brokered deal lasted a year but ended last month after Moscow quit. Ankara is seeking to persuade Russia to return to the agreement, under which Odesa's seaports shipped tens of millions of tons of grain.
Since the grain-export deal collapsed, Russian forces have targeted Ukrainian ports with volleys of missiles and kamikaze drones.
"President Erdoğan has so far led an intense diplomacy in order to help prevent a global food crisis," Ömer Çelik, the AK Party spokesperson told reporters in Ankara following the party's Central Decision-Making and Administrative Committee meeting.
The meeting will be in Sochi, according to Çelik.
"After this visit there may be developments and new stages may be reached regarding" the grain deal, he told reporters.
