Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived on an official visit to Ukraine on February 3. He held talks with the leader of this country, Volodymyr Zelensky. The bilateral meeting of the presidents lasted 3 hours and 10 minutes.
Following the talks, Zelensky said that Kiev and Ankara had signed an agreement significantly expanding the production of Bayraktar unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine. Earlier it was reported about plans to build a plant for the production of Turkish drones in the republic.
Zelensky also said that the main topic of negotiations with Erdogan was the security sector. The Ukrainian leader thanked his Turkish counterpart for the offer to become a mediator in negotiations with Russia, writes RIA News.
For his part, Erdogan said that at the talks with Zelensky, he reiterated Turkey’s readiness to make every possible effort to reduce tensions in the region, notes TASS.
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky in the Full Contact program on “Vesti FM” and platform “Looking” spoke out about the reasons for the rapid activity that the President of Turkey has recently shown.
“He has been in power for a long time, the lira is falling, the population in Istanbul is the intelligentsia. The opposition is in power there, a pro-Western democrat,” Zhirinovsky said. In his opinion, Erdogan now needs at least minimal success, in addition, he wants to do at least something “in terms of a NATO-type union of Turkic states.”