Erdogan has not persuaded: negotiations with the Russian Federation are possible only after the de -occupation of Ukraine - Zelensky
Following the meeting of the politicians, they gave a joint press conference, during which the head of Ukraine stressed that negotiations with the aggressor country would only be possible after the state is being devoted. "Mr. Erdogan said today that the grain initiative gives a diplomatic window for agreements on the future of the end of the war between Ukraine and Russia.
I do not believe the Russian Federation, and I believe that in this window there is a Russian weapon, and therefore very surprised that they are ready for some kind Peace. People who kill, rape, beat the winged rockets daily in our peaceful cities, for our peaceful infrastructure sites - they cannot want peace, "Zelensky commented. According to Zelensky, the parties discussed the export grain initiative. He stressed that the project should continue to develop.
"This is a global need - to increase the number of vessels that are safely exporting Ukrainian food. Our state will be a guarantor of global food security," the President stressed. According to Zelensky, the policy meeting discussed Russia's nuclear blackmail at the Zaporozhye NPP.
"Russia should immediately and without any conditions remove its troops from the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, stop all provocations, stop all the shelling unconditionally," the head of state commented. He added that the aggressor country deliberately puts everyone on a radiation catastrophe of world scale.
Turkish President Recep TaiP Erdogan, for his part, has shown his willingness to agree with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. According to Zelensky, the Ukrainian side agreed with the UN Secretary General on the need to send a special mission to the occupied Olenivka to establish the facts of the death of captives of Ukrainians. There is also an agreement to create a tribunal to condemn Russian crimes in Ukraine.
At the meeting, Erdogan stated that Turkey is ready to take under its patronage the restoration of Kharkiv and Kharkiv region. The memorandum was also signed in Lviv between the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine and the Turkish Ministry of Commerce for Infrastructure Restoration in Ukraine. We will remind, the UN Secretary General Anthony Guterres came to Lviv on Wednesday, August 17. Erdogan flew from Istanbul today.