KYIV: Ukraine's president and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Wednesday (Mar 8) for the extension of a deal with Moscow that has allowed Kyiv to export grain via Black Sea ports during Russia's invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after talks with Guterres in Kyiv that t
KYIV: Ukraine's president and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Wednesday for the extension of a deal with Moscow that has allowed Kyiv to export grain via Black Sea ports during Russia's invasion.
The 120-day deal, initially brokered by the UN and Turkey last July and extended in November, will be renewed on Mar 18 if no party objects. Zelenskyy said he and Guterres had agreed that rolling over the deal on Mar 18 was"critically necessary for the world."
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