When it comes to the African peace initiative, the Kremlin gave away few details of today's phone call between the Russian president and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa. The grain agreement provides a safe corridor to export Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea to developing nations, and its proponents say it helps reduce food prices in African nations.īut Putin has held up renewing the deal on the grounds the West should remove obstacles to the export of Russian food and fertilizer in return. With the Black Sea grain deal set to end on Monday if Russia and Ukraine fail to agree an extension, Putin once again said his requirements had not been fulfilled. "We are discussing everything that is important for the normal and safe life of people," Mr Zelenskyy said, thanking Mr Yoon for "powerful" support.Īn African peace plan to end the war and a grain deal crucial for some of the world's poorest people were discussed by Vladimir Putin and the president of South Africa today. It will cooperate with Kyiv in projects such as infrastructure construction too, which can be backed by concessionary loans from South Korea, he said. He did not give more details, but said South Korea will also provide Ukraine with $150 million (£114m) in humanitarian aid this year, following about $100 (£76m) million in 2022. However, in a joint press conference, Mr Yoon said South Korea plans to provide "a larger scale of military supplies" to Ukraine this year, following last year's provision of non-lethal supplies such as body armour and helmets. South Korea is a US ally and the world's ninth biggest arms exporter, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) think tank.īut it is also wary of Russia's influence over North Korea and has so far resisted Western pressure to help arm Ukraine directly.
We reported earlier that Mr Yoon is in Kyiv visiting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after attending a NATO summit in Lithuania and Poland earlier in the week. Yoon Suk Yeol pledged a bigger batch of military supplies and $150m (£114m) in humanitarian aid. On his surprise visit to the Ukrainian capital, South Korean President
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