If Turkey can influence Ukraine and induce it to comply with the Minsk agreements, Russia will only welcome this, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. This is how he commented on the proposal of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold talks between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine in his country.
“Of course, we welcome the efforts of any countries that can help resolve the situation in Ukraine,” Peskov said.
He noted that the main disagreements between Moscow and Kiev are connected precisely with the stalling of the process of implementing the Minsk agreements on the Ukrainian side. “The place where any contacts are held is secondary,” the Kremlin spokesman quoted him as saying. TASS.
Erdogan’s proposal leaders of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky to visit Turkey and meet “to discuss and resolve differences,” announced on January 19 the official representative of the head of the Turkish state, Ibrahim Kalyn. He assured that Ankara is ready to play any role in reducing tensions between Moscow and Kiev.
Kalin also said that Erdogan will travel to Ukraine in the next few weeks for talks with Zelensky.
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