Ukrainian servicemen on the line of contact in the Donetsk regionANKARA, Mar 5 Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalyn believes that it is «naive» to expect results from negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine if hostilities continue. Earlier, Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan announced the possibility of holding a trilateral meeting of the presidents of Turkey, Russia and Ukraine in Ankara or Istanbul in case of a positive response from Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Erdogan is also scheduled to speak on the phone with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday.A 94-year-old man was injured due to the shelling of Pervomaisk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine»I do not want to be a pessimist, but as long as these intense shelling continues, it would be a little naive to expect a specific binding result from the negotiating table, which will directly positively affect the situation on the ground for Ukrainian cities. That is why the Russian side needs to be given a very serious chance at the negotiating table here,» NTV quoted Kalyn as saying. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. At the same time, as the President of Russia emphasized, there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine. In response, Western countries introduced new anti-Russian sanctions. In particular, several of the largest banks in the Russian Federation, including Sberbank and VTB, fell under them. The European Union, the USA, Canada and a number of other countries have closed the skies for Russian aircraft. A number of state-owned companies found it difficult to attract foreign capital. Sanctions have been imposed on the supply of high-tech products to Russia.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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