Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that the president of Russia has agreed to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which established a humanitarian maritime corridor to allow ships to export grain and other foodstuffs from Ukraine.
The CFTS portal reported this, citing the Ukrinform news agency.
Erdoğan said on 14 July that he and the Russian president had agreed to extend the grain initiative, which allows the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
Erdoğan told reporters that the grain initiative would be extended beyond 17 July through the efforts of the United Nations and Turkey.
The Russian Federation has not yet confirmed this information. Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia has made no statements about extending the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
