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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to extend the export agreement to ship Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea to other goods.
In a phone call with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Erdoğan said, according to his office, that preparations for the export of food and other goods could gradually begin.
Erdoğan also called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in the evening and talked about a possible extension of the agreement, the President's Office told the dpa news agency.
The Kremlin in Moscow said the grain deal was complex.
Above all, the restrictions on the export of Russian grain and fertilizer should be lifted.
Mediated by Turkey and the United Nations, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement in July to export Ukrainian grain via a corridor in the Black Sea.
The agreement ended a months-long blockade on Ukraine's grain exports as a result of Russia's war of aggression.
In the course of the Western sanctions, Russia complains about restrictions on its own exports of grain and fertilizer.
According to the Kremlin, the phone call was also about the creation of a gas hub in Turkey.
The head of the Russian state-owned company Gazprom, Alexej Miller, conducted negotiations there last week, it is said.
czl/dpa