Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on 5 August. He announced the Turkish presidency
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
has called on Moscow and Kiev to put into practice the agreement found in Istanbul on safe corridors in the Black Sea for the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.
The pact, under the auspices of the United Nations to which Ankara is also a party, "will alleviate the global food crisis", the Turkish president said during an interview with Turkish state TV TRT in which he stated that the Russian bombing of the port of Odessa, less than 24 hours after the signing of the wheat pact, has "saddened" Turkey.
Turkey will increase the import of gas and oil from Iran.
This was announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during an interview with Turkish state TV TRT.
The increase in imports by Ankara in the Iranian energy sector was decided during Erdogan's recent visit to Tehran during which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi announced the goal of achieving an economic exchange between the two countries equal to 30 billions of dollars in 2022.
Russian forces hit the port city of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, once again in the early hours of this morning: the head of the region's military administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, reports, according to the Guardian.
The missile attack would have taken place by means of "strategic aircraft", he said.
Last Saturday, just 12 hours after the signing of the agreement with Kiev on grain exports from the southern ports of Ukraine, Russia had bombed Odessa with cruise missiles.
The Russians are allegedly preparing an offensive on the cities of Siversk and Soledar, in Donetsk, according to reports from the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces on Facebook.
And Belarusian armed forces would conduct a training reconnaissance on connections with the command center starting at 6 this morning, in the direction of Volyn and Polissia.
The reconnaissance was allegedly conducted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) departing from Belarus in the direction of Lutsk and Kovel, in the Volyn region, a sign, according to Kiev, of the persistence of a "threat of missile and air attacks from the territory of Belarus".
Russian troops - the Ukrainian staff still informs - struck between the night and the early morning hours in the Chernihiv and Sumy region with cannons and heavy artillery,
in Kharkiv also with tanks and towards the border with Russia there is a fight to keep the conquered territories and prevent the Ukrainian forces from advancing.
The Sacred Mountains of the Holy Dormition National Natural Park was among the targets affected.
The Russian army hit the city of Kharkiv again last night.
This was stated by Mayor Ihor Terekhov on Telegram, according to a Ukrinform correspondent.
"Again, the night bombings of the city hit the area of Kharkiv closest to the city center. Like other times, the bombs fell next to a building that had nothing to do with military infrastructure," Terekhov wrote.
So far - he added - there are no reports of victims.
