Deputy Foreign Ministers of Russia and Türkiye Sergey Vershinin and Burak Akcapar have had a telephone conversation, Ednews informs referring to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The parties discussed the grain initiative.
“The Russian side confirmed its fundamental assessments about the purely commercial nature of the Black Sea initiative to export Ukrainian food, far from the declared humanitarian goals of helping countries in need in Africa, Asia and Latin America,” reads the report.