Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, held a telephone conversation on Tuesday.
"During the call, [the two foreign ministers] discussed the latest developments as part of the Istanbul grain deal and the purchase of large-size planes from Russia to manage wildland fires", a Turkish diplomat told a TASS.
“Lavrov stated that due to the failure of the implementation for Russian part of the package agreements of the Russia-UN Memorandum, in particular, the continued blocking of Russian bank payments, insurance and transport logistics, the freezing of Russian foreign assets and the supply of domestic agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets, as well as the actual loss of the humanitarian nature of the deal, commercialized by Kiev, the implementation of agreements on grain has been terminated since July 18. In practical terms, this means the withdrawal of navigation safety guarantees and the restoration of the regime of a temporarily dangerous area in the northwestern Black Sea.
As an alternative to the "Black Sea Initiative", the ministers considered other options for supplying grain to the countries most in need, not dependent on the subversive actions of Kyiv and its Western patrons”, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a readout.
