Russia’s demands to provide guarantees regarding the resumption of participation in the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain “testify to the failure of its aggression” in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Wednesday evening, AFP reports.

Volodymyr ZelenskyiPhoto: ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia

“This shows both the failure of Russian aggression and how strong we are when we unite,” the Ukrainian leader said in a daily speech published on social media.

Earlier, Moscow stated that it had received “sufficient” written guarantees from Kyiv.

A Russian plane fired two cruise missiles on Wednesday that flew over a corridor used to export Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, Ukraine’s president said in his usual nightly speech.

On Wednesday, Zelensky thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his role in “saving” the grain agreement with Russia.

“In a telephone conversation with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, I thanked him for his active participation in preserving the ‘grain agreement,'” Zelenskyi said on the social network.

Erdogan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to mediate between Kiev and Moscow to resolve the recent dispute.