ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan mentioned he mentioned methods to finish the Ukraine battle with Russia’s Vladimir Putin throughout talks in China and with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy by cellphone, however that the perimeters had been “not but prepared” for a leaders’ assembly.
Erdogan spoke to reporters aboard his airplane coming back from China, the place he met Putin after which mentioned he known as Zelenskiy. He mentioned talks in latest months between Russian and Ukrainian officers in Istanbul confirmed the trail to peace stays open.
Turkey favours “elevating the extent of negotiations steadily” to show hopes for peace into concrete outcomes, he mentioned, including that any initiative would finally must be dealt with on the leaders’ stage, although situations weren’t but in place.
NATO member Turkey has saved channels open with each Moscow and Kyiv since Russia’s 2022 invasion and has sought to mediate between them.
(Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Enhancing by Jonathan Spicer)