Russia had suspended the deal in protest at the drone strike on its military fleet in Sevastopol on Saturday.
Russia today announced it will return to the agreement signed with Ukraine to guarantee grain exports after it broke this past weekend in retaliation for an attack on its fleet in the Black Sea.
Russia’s defense ministry has said it has received “sufficient” assurances from Ukraine through the UN and Turkey that Kiev will not use the grain export corridor for military purposes, allowing the deal to resume.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also confirmed Russia’s return to the agreement. “Russian Defense Minister (Sergei) Shoigu has called our Defense Minister (Hulusi) Akar and said that from today the grain corridor will continue to operate as before at noon,” he said.
After speaking with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday, he plans to do so today with Ukrainian Volodimir Zelensky, according to the Anatolian agency.
Russia had suspended the agreement in protest at the drone strike on its military fleet in Sevastopol last Saturday, but the Joint Coordination Center, based in Istanbul, had continued its work, only with the Turkish and UN delegations, until yesterday.
The grain export agreement, signed in July between Russia and Ukraine mediated by the UN and Turkey, will expire on November 19.
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Source: EITB
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