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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a regional summit in the Kazakh capital. IMAGES
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes a surprise trip to Kyiv as the United States unveiled nearly $2.8 billion in new military support to Ukraine and neighbours, to face Russia. Blinken travelled in secrecy on his second trip to Kyiv since the Russian invasion in February. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that Russia and Ukraine's signing of a deal with the United Nations and Turkey on resuming grain shipments would "bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy". He adds that the accord "opens a path for significant volumes of commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea: Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny." IMAGES
The United States hails a Turkish-brokered deal to export grain from Ukrainian ports and urges Russia to implement it. "We welcome the announcement of this agreement in principle, but what we're focusing on now is holding Russia accountable for implementing this agreement and for enabling Ukrainian grain to get to world markets," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu ahead of the summit in Istanbul which will see leaders from Russia, Turkey, Germany and France discuss the situation in Syria. IMAGES of the encounter
Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov meets his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu in Moscow. IMAGES
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