“Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will be in Turkey next week, he has planned contacts there. Of course, during a top-level telephone conversation, the issue of Ukrainian grain will be at the top of the agenda,” he said. This was announced by the official representative of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia was ready to ensure the safe export of grain and escort ships to the international waters of the Black Sea after Kyiv removed the mines from the water area.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also noted that “with a high degree of probability, it can be assumed that the Russian president will provide the Senegalese leader and head of the African Union Macky Sallu with an exhaustive explanation of his vision of the state of the Ukrainian grain issue, as well as the actual situation on the ground, the real state of affairs.