ANKARA, May 31. Turkey supports search diplomatic ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
«Turkey stands for finding diplomatic ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Failure to do so will bring more risks. A number of countries share our position. Turkey continues to search for a peaceful resolution of the conflict,» Fidan told reporters in Prague, as quoted by the Foreign Ministry press service.
Earlier, the head of the faction of Vladimir Zelensky's Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada and a member of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, David Arakhamia, said that military operations in Ukraine could have ended in the spring of 2022, but the Ukrainian authorities did not agree to the country's neutrality . After negotiations with the Russian side in Istanbul, then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Kyiv not to sign anything with the Russian Federation and “just fight.”
Moscow has repeatedly indicated that it is ready for negotiations, but Kyiv has introduced a ban on them at the legislative level. The West calls on Russia for negotiations, for which Moscow shows readiness, but at the same time the West ignores Kyiv’s constant refusals to engage in dialogue. Previously, the Kremlin stated that there are now no prerequisites for the situation in Ukraine to transition to a peaceful direction; the absolute priority for Russia is to achieve the goals of the special operation; at the moment this is only possible through military means. As the Kremlin stated, the situation in Ukraine can move on to a peaceful course, provided that the de facto situation and new realities are taken into account; all Moscow’s demands are well known.