President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with Ukrainian and Russian delegations ahead of their meeting in Istanbul, the Turkish leader said in a statement late Monday.
Speaking after a Cabinet meeting at Ankara’s Presidential Complex, Erdoğan also said phone talks with his Ukrainian and Russian counterparts are continuing in a “favorable direction” amid the Russia-Ukraine war.
“I can express that the phone calls we’ve maintained with (Russian President) Mr. (Vladimir) Putin and (Ukrainian President) Mr. (Volodymyr) Zelenskyy are heading in a favorable direction,” Erdoğan said at a news conference after a Cabinet meeting at the presidential complex in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Before a fresh round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia is set to take place in Istanbul on Tuesday, Turkish officials will sit down with both sides for a “short meeting,” Erdoğan noted.
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