Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoganANKARA, Apr 25 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would hold telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. The Turkish leader specified that he had talks with Vladimir Zelensky on Sunday. />Turkey does not want to be a guarantor of Ukraine like the fifth article of the NATO charter»Tomorrow we are planning negotiations with Mr. (Russian President Vladimir — ed.) Putin. Our goal is to achieve a sustainable ceasefire as soon as possible and organize a meeting of leaders,» Erdogan said in his address to people after the meeting of the Cabinet on Monday. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» discord in NATO due to the «partition of Ukraine» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces they strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
