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Putin and Erdoğan to meet over grain deal as U.N. bids to revive it

Talks are planned for Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi almost two months since Russia pulled out of the U.N.-brokered deal.

Odesa is one of three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea.
Odesa is one of three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea.(AN/Oleksandr Brovko/Unsplash)

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were set to meet next week for high-stakes talks on the scuttled Black Sea grain deal that the United Nations is attempting to resuscitate.

The talks are planned for Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi, the Kremlin said on Friday almost two months since Russia pulled out of the U.N.-brokered deal that had enabled wartime shipping of Ukraine's exports.

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