He announced Kyiv's readiness to export Ukrainian grain to the international market.
“We are two steps away from reaching an agreement with Russia,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
The Minister added that the parties are "at the final stage" on this issue.
He also claims that "now everything depends on Russia."
Earlier, the official representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric said that the international organization notes the positive statements made recently by the parties in the context of negotiations on grain exports.
Prior to this, the director of the second department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Polishchuk, said that Kyiv itself was preventing the export of grain from Ukrainian territory.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an artificially inflated hysteria on the topic of Ukrainian grain.