President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed developments in the Russia-Ukraine war, and the grain corridor initiative over the phone on Friday, a statement by the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications said.
Erdoğan told Zelenskyy that positive developments in the grain deal and the prisoner swap should be extended to cease-fire negotiations, the statement said.
He also thanked Zelenskyy for his constructive stance on the extension of the Istanbul grain deal.
Meanwhile, in a message he posted on Twitter, Zelenskyy said he thanked Erdoğan for supporting the grain deal and assured him that Kyiv will remain a guarantor of food stability.
He also said they discussed security and energy cooperation.
Earlier this week, an agreement was reached to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative by 120 days.
The initial deal reached in July has helped stave off a global food crisis by allowing the export of food and fertilizers from several of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports that had been blockaded by Russia.
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