ANKARA, Nov 12 Russia is resisting the West, which is it is being attacked, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters on the plane after returning from Uzbekistan.
«Russia is not an ordinary state, it is a powerful state. Of course, the West, led by the United States, attacks Russia almost without limit. In the face of all this Russia, of course, is resisting,” he said.
According to Erdogan, Turkey, for its part, is trying to figure out how to “open a corridor of peace.”
“We believe that the best way to do this there may be a path from dialogue to peace,» he added.
The Turkish leader noted that in the next two or three days he intends to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and find out what steps Russia plans to take in this direction. In addition, Erdogan is going to talk with Vladimir Zelensky.
«And we will look for ways to understand whether this mediation will lead us to peace,» he concluded.
Russia has been conducting a military special operation since February 24 in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the president, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself.
The Kremlin has repeatedly noted that the special operation will be completed when all its goals are achieved. At the same time, Moscow has never refused peace talks with Kyiv, but since the Ukrainian authorities have legally forbidden themselves to negotiate, dialogue is now impossible.