President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone on the exchange of wounded in Ukraine, building a gas hub in Turkey and grain exports from the Black Sea, the Kremlin said on Monday.
“Discussions continued on the situation around Ukraine,” the Kremlin said. It said the question of a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine was raised after talks between the two countries’ human rights commissioners in Turkey last week.
The Kremlin said in its readout of the call, “Vladimir Putin drew attention to the destructive streak of the Kyiv regime, which relies on the escalation of hostilities with the help of Western sponsors, in the volume of weapons and military equipment transferred. escalation,” the Kremlin said in its readout of the call.
It said ways to stop Ukrainian grain exports from Black Sea ports and fertilizer and food exports from Russia were discussed. Erdogan and Putin also discussed energy, the Kremlin said.
“The priorities are cooperation in the energy sector, including the supply of Russian natural gas and the creation of a regional gas hub in Turkey,” the Kremlin said.
They also discussed the normalization of relations between Turkey and Syria.