Putin goes to Turkey on 12 February.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss a new mechanism for exporting Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea during Putin’s upcoming visit to Turkey, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in a television interview Feb. 4, as reported by Reuters.
Russian media on Jan. 29 announced Putin’s plans to visit Turkey in February. The visit, set for Feb. 12, marks Putin’s first trip to a NATO country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Fidan told A Haber television that the leaders will discuss “new methods” of shipping Ukrainian grain products following Moscow’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July 2023...
...Putin’s international visits have been curtailed since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant in March 2023 for his role in the deportations of Ukrainian children. Turkey is not party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, meaning it is under no obligation to detain Putin.”
Seems grain is flowing quite nicely with black fleet either bottled up or becoming artificial reefs.
You have no bargaining chip vlad.
Here is a thought stop target grain infrastructure in Odessa.
No need for a meeting to do that
Also to be discussed is turning Crimea over to Turkey.