Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. File photoANKARA, Apr 25 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin «in the near future,» Turkish TV channel A Haber reported. On Sunday, the Turkish leader held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 
Erdogan announces progress in Russian-Ukrainian talks»President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already held a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ready to provide all possible assistance during the negotiation process and offer the necessary support, including mediation, Erdogan said that Ankara is positively considering the issue of providing security guarantees to Kyiv. President Erdogan is also expected to have a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future. .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» 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 strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
