FILE PICTURE. Storks walk past a wheat combine harvester in a field near the village of Zghurivka, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Musiienko

ANKARA, March 14 (Reuters) – Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday talks on extending a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea were still ongoing.

In a statement, the Turkish ministry said Russia had agreed to support a 60-day extension of the agreement, negotiated in July between Moscow and Kyiv with the mediation of Turkey and the United Nations.

Russia said the deal was extended for 60 days, but Ukraine said the deal only allowed for a 120-day extension.

(Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen and Omer Berberoglu; Editing in Spanish by Benjamín Mejías Valencia)

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