Russia supports Turkey organizing another round of peace interviews with Ukraine after the first meeting has not been progress in US efforts to stop more than three years of war.
“We are grateful for Turkey for his readiness to continue to help in such negotiations and peace settlements,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday after discussions with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Moscow.
Turkey has hosted the first direct interviews between Russia and Ukraine since 2022 at the beginning of this month in Istanbul. At the Moscow meeting, she refused to accept an American proposal for a 30 -day ceasefire and repeated hard requirements to end her invasion, now in the fourth year. European countries and the US supported the idea of Pope Leo XIV to organize negotiations in the Vatican, but Russia rejected this initiative.
According to the Kremlin, Fidan also met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lavrov.
Meanwhile, Russia is still working on the proposal of a memorandum on a peace agreement with Ukraine, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday, Interfax News said.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump expressed his frustration from Putin over the stopped effort to end the war. The American leader said he was considering new sanctions against Russia and called Putin “absolutely crazy!” For “unnecessary killing many people” with attacks of drones and missiles.
Russia has launched a record number of drones and nine excursion missiles in regions in Ukraine overnight by Monday in the third consecutive night of strike, Kyiv said. Ukraine said the attack had people injured and damaged by civil infrastructure.
During Tuesday’s meeting Lavrov and Fidan, they also discussed the “some obstacles” in the construction of a nuclear power plant in southern Turkey, said Turkish Foreign Minister without providing details.
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is currently building akuyu, the first Turkish nuclear power plant, but the project has been delayed several times.
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