The high-stakes meeting involving UN and Turkish officials in Istanbul broke up after slightly more than three hours without the participants speaking to the press."We believe that this is something positive and (Guterres) will talk to you at some length about why that is," UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.Ukraine is a vital exporter of wheat and grains such as barley and maize. It has also supplied nearly half of all the sunflower oil traded on global markets.- Russian proposals -Russian authorities in Ukraine's southern region of Kherson on Wednesday countered with accusations that Kyiv's forces were deliberately burning crops and mining fields.The two sides entered the talks saying that a deal was close but some contentious issues remained.Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Moscow had "submitted a package of proposals for the speediest practical solution" to the crisis.- Grain corridors -Turkey says it has 20 merchant ships waiting in the region that could be quickly loaded and sent to world markets.Kyiv has also asked that its vessels be accompanied by warships from a friendly country such as Turkey.Kuleba said he did not think Moscow actually wanted to reach an agreement because proceeds from grain sales would help support a Western-backed government in Kyiv that the Kremlin brands as "Nazis".- 'Operational pause' -Erdogan's ultimate goal is to bring Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky down to Istanbul for talks aimed at pausing the fighting and launching formal peace talks.Ukrainian officials said at least five people died in Russian shelling on the region surrounding the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv."You never get used to war. It's dreadful and scary," 60-year-old Lyubov Mozhayeva said in the partially destroyed frontline city of Bakhmut.Analysts believe the Russians are taking an "operational pause" during which they are rearming and regrouping forces before launching an assault on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk -- Ukraine's administrative centre for the east.US officials believe the Russians are trying to recoup their losses by negotiating to acquire hundreds of combat drones from Iran....
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The high-stakes meeting involving UN and Turkish officials in Istanbul broke up after slightly more than three hours without the participants speaking to the press."We believe that this is something positive and (Guterres) will talk to you at some length about why that is," UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.Ukraine is a vital exporter of wheat and grains such as barley and maize. It has also supplied nearly half of all the sunflower oil traded on global markets.- Russian proposals -Russian authorities in Ukraine's southern region of Kherson on Wednesday countered with accusations that Kyiv's forces were deliberately burning crops and mining fields.The two sides entered the talks saying that a deal was close but some contentious issues remained.Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Moscow had "submitted a package of proposals for the speediest practical solution" to the crisis.- Grain corridors -Turkey says it has 20 merchant ships waiting in the region that could be quickly loaded and sent to world markets.Kyiv has also asked that its vessels be accompanied by warships from a friendly country such as Turkey.Kuleba said he did not think Moscow actually wanted to reach an agreement because proceeds from grain sales would help support a Western-backed government in Kyiv that the Kremlin brands as "Nazis".- 'Operational pause' -Erdogan's ultimate goal is to bring Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky down to Istanbul for talks aimed at pausing the fighting and launching formal peace talks.Ukrainian officials said at least five people died in Russian shelling on the region surrounding the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv."You never get used to war. It's dreadful and scary," 60-year-old Lyubov Mozhayeva said in the partially destroyed frontline city of Bakhmut.Analysts believe the Russians are taking an "operational pause" during which they are rearming and regrouping forces before launching an assault on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk -- Ukraine's administrative centre for the east.US officials believe the Russians are trying to recoup their losses by negotiating to acquire hundreds of combat drones from Iran....
Russia and Ukraine address grain crisis in first talks since March
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