Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans telephone conversations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week. As a diplomatic source said on August 22, it is expected that the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and ways to resolve the Ukrainian crisis will be discussed.
“Yes, such negotiations are expected this week. Turkey continues to play its honest mediation role in this conflict, being the only country that has won the trust of both sides,” the source quoted the source as saying. “RIA News”.
Earlier on Monday, it became known that the Turkish President intends to discuss on August 22 the details of his talks with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with the country’s cabinet of ministers. The meeting chaired by Erdogan will also discuss the situation in Ukraine and the “grain corridor”.
On August 6, Erdogan suggested that Putin meet with Zelensky, noting that Ankara was ready to become a platform for negotiations. The Turkish president expressed confidence that the conflict in Ukraine can only be ended through diplomacy. On August 8, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there are currently no prerequisites for a meeting between Putin and Zelensky.
In turn, the President of Ukraine on August 18, on the eve of Erdogan’s visit to Lviv, indicated that negotiations with Moscow were possible only after the Russian troops left the territories they occupied.
To this, a State Duma deputy, a member of the United Russia faction, Jamaladin Hasanov, told Izvestia on August 19 that Zelensky was making obviously unrealistic demands that come from his “overseas masters.” Gasanov drew attention to the fact that in negotiations with the Turkish leader and UN Secretary General António Guterres, the Ukrainian president was concerned about business problems, but not ordinary people or the issue of negotiations. The MP pointed out that Zelensky was also far from the subject of a ceasefire.
On May 22, the head of the Russian negotiating group, Vladimir Medinsky, announced the termination of the dialogue with the Ukrainian side at the initiative of Kyiv. The last face-to-face round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on March 29 in Turkey.
On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). It was preceded by an aggravation of the situation in the region, an appeal by the leadership of the Donbass republics to the Russian Federation with a request for help, and the subsequent recognition by Russia of the independence of the DPR and LPR.
Kyiv has been conducting a military operation against the residents of Donbass, who refused to recognize the results of the coup d’état in Ukraine, since 2014.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
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