Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 20 On the 56th day of the special operation in Ukraine, Russian missile forces hit enemy command posts, an ammunition depot and manpower in the Novaya Dmitrovka and Vysoky districts, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The humanitarian operation at Azovstal in Mariupol failed due to the fault of Kyiv, but Kyiv supported the Easter truce proposed by the UN. Also on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced the proposal of President Tayyip Erdogan to organize a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Vladimir Zelensky.
Cavusoglu said that Turkey should not expect sanctions against RussiaThe course of the operationOn Wednesday, the missile forces of the Russian Armed Forces hit four command posts, an ammunition depot, as well as enemy manpower in the areas of Novaya Dmitrovka and Vysoky, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said. During the day, the Aerospace Forces launched strikes with precision-guided missiles at 12 Ukrainian military facilities. Also, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 73 objects, including two depots of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition, and Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter and two drones. In total, during the special operation, the Russian military destroyed 140 Ukrainian aircraft and 106 helicopters, as well as almost 500 drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense noted. The People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic said that the forces of the DPR destroyed 35 Ukrainian nationalists, one firing position and one tank in a day. from the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, Moscow said. As a result, no one used the gum corridor opened by the Russian Armed Forces on Wednesday, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation. to the leaders of Great Britain, the United States and Turkey with a request to provide them with «green corridors» for the exit of civilians and wounded militants allegedly located there from Azovstal, but this appeal was not addressed, it should have been addressed to Kiev, Mizintsev said. At the same time, Russia is ready to deploy humanitarian corridors as soon as possible for the exit of civilians in any direction and guarantee security, he added. Ukraine, from the DPR and LPR for almost 900 thousand a number of people, delivered over 13.4 thousand tons of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and carried out 865 humanitarian actions, Mizintsev said. In Kyiv, they said they support the UN proposal for an Easter truce in Ukraine from April 21, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Ukraine agreed to the UN proposal for an Easter truceTurkey again offers assistanceRussian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday phoned to discuss the situation in Mariupol and possible joint steps by the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense to ensure the safety of civilians in Ukraine, including foreigners, said in the Russian Foreign Ministry. Later, in an interview with the media, Cavusoglu said that among the NATO countries there are forces that are interested in continuing the current situation in Ukraine and «weakening Russia.» He also stressed that Ankara should not be expected to impose sanctions against Moscow, and added that Erdogan is in active contact with Putin and Zelensky to organize their meeting. Erdogan intends to call both of them soon, Cavusoglu specified. According to the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ankara is against acting as a guarantor for Ukraine, following the example of the fifth paragraph of the NATO Charter. This article, among other things, states that «an armed attack on one (contracting party — ed.) or several of them in Europe or North America will be considered as an attack on them as a whole.» Cavusoglu added that the meeting between Russian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and Dmitry Kuleba is possible either in Istanbul or in Antalya. As for the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine at the level of delegations, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Moscow had submitted proposals for a peace agreement to Ukraine on April 15, there is still no answer, everything » hung» on the side of Kyiv.
Turkey does not want to be a guarantor of Ukraine like the fifth article of the NATO charter
