Zelensky will travel to Turkey on Friday to meet Erdogan and discuss the Black Sea

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenskywill travel to Istanbul on Friday to meet with his counterpart from Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoganannounced this Thursday the Turkish presidency.

“The situation between Ukraine It is Russia and the last contacts for the resumption of a safe corridor in Black Sea“, will be the axis of the meeting, informed the presidency of Türkiye in a message published on the social network X.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that the meeting will take place in Dolmabahçe Palace inIstanbul

where Erdogan has already received Zelensky in July 2023.

According to the same source, a press conference is planned at the end of the day, at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

Zelensky’s visit to Istanbul in 2023 was his first trip to Turkey since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022. The Ukrainian president then held a long meeting with the Turkish president, who maintains close ties with both Kyiv like with Moscow

and is a key mediator.

Ukrainian authorities insist they desperately need more military and financial aid to confront Russia’s offensive. Around thirty countries met in Paris

this Thursday to address this issue. OEuropean Union

after long internal negotiations, it released aid worth 50 billion euros in February, while on the American side, an amount of 60 billion dollars remained blocked for months in Congress due to opposition from Republicans. MORE INFORMATION:

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Turkey, which has not adhered to the sanctions of Western powers, supplies combat drones to the Ukrainians and facilitates trade with the Russians, on whom it depends for its energy supply. Erdogan was a key mediator in reaching an agreement that allowed the transport of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea in July 2022, a negotiation under the auspices of the UN

which ended when Russia withdrew from the pact a year later.

Source: Elcomercio

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