The Russian ministry also said the talks were about a mission to investigate the attack on a camp with Ukrainian prisoners of war. After the death of around 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Olenivka prison near Donetsk at the end of July, the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov again requested access to independent international experts over the weekend in order to clarify the case.
The ministry in Moscow said that the UN’s initiatives to facilitate the export of Russian food products and fertilizers to world markets were also discussed. Russia has criticized the fact that the West’s “illegal” sanctions in the wake of the Ukraine war are preventing it from exporting its own grain. According to the Russian leadership, they signed an agreement with Guterres, according to which the UN should help to support the export.