Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Türkiye discuss Black Sea Grain Initiative and Ukrainian prisoners

The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Türkiye, Dmytro Kuleba and Mevlüt Cavuşoğlu,, held a telephone conversation on Wednesday regarding the Black Sea Grain Initiative [an agreement brokered by the UN with Russia and Turkey launched on 22 July to enable ships to transport grain from Ukraine - ed.].

Source:  European Pravda

"Building on the dialogue between the leaders of Ukraine and Türkiye, we coordinated further steps to ensure the functioning of the grain corridor and the release of Ukrainian prisoners," Kuleba wrote on Twitter.

I had a call with my Turkish counterpart @MevlutCavusoglu. Building on the dialogue between the leaders of Ukraine @ZelenskyyUa and Türkiye @RTErdogan we coordinated further steps to ensure the functioning of the grain corridor and the release of Ukrainian prisoners.

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) November 2, 2022

By way of background, after the strike on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol, Russia announced the suspension of its participation in the Grain Initiative. The UN then said that the agreement still remains in force and the organisation's inspectors will continue inspecting ships.

As European Pravda wrote in its article, the grain agreement could work even without the participation of the Russian side if it was the will of Turkish President Erdoğan, and this scenario is already in the process of being realised. Putin started hinting the very next day that the Russian Federation is ready to return to the agreement. 

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