Putin, Erdogan Talks End Without Reviving Ukraine Grain Deal
- Erdogan met Putin to urge revival of Ukraine export corridor
- End of Black Sea trade has stoked tension, shaken grain market
Vladimir Putin, right, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on Sept. 4.
Photographer: Sergei Guneyev/AFP/Getty Images
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President Vladimir Putin said he wouldn’t revive a UN-backed deal that had eased global food prices by allowing Ukraine to ship its grain through the Black Sea unless obstacles to Russia’s own agricultural exports are removed.
Putin’s comments came after a three-hour meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Russian resort town of Sochi. Erdogan, who helped broker the original Black Sea Grain Initiative in 2022, had hoped to come away from the talks with a new framework for negotiations to present to global leaders at the Group of 20 Summit in India later in the week.