Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will "soon" visit Russia for talks with counterpart Vladimir Putin on reviving a Black Sea grain deal that could be used as a springboard for broader Ukraine peace negotiations. A spokesman for Erdogan's ruling party told reporters on August 28 that the meeting will take place in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi and focus on averting a looming "food crisis." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier that a meeting was being prepared "intensively" but provided no time or place for the talks.
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