{"id":17270,"date":"2025-09-02T21:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:35:38","slug":"putin-zelensky-not-yet-ready-to-meet-erdogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=17270","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Zelensky \u2018not yet ready\u2019 to meet \u2013 Erdogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ankara is in contact with both Moscow and Kiev and hopes to build on progress made at past Istanbul talks, the Turkish leader has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky have yet to agree to a summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters on his way back from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China on Monday, Erdogan said that he had discussed the Ukraine conflict with his Russian counterpart in Tianjin. According to the Turkish president, his country advocates \u201cpeace-focused dialogue,\u201d<\/em> and maintains contact with both belligerents. T\u00fcrkiye has already helped achieve \u201cconcrete outcomes like the grain corridor and prisoner exchanges\u201d<\/em> during previous rounds of Istanbul talks, he noted.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe aim to elevate these negotiations progressively, ideally at the leadership level,<\/em>\u201d Erdogan stated. However, he judged by his recent phone and in-person conversations with Zelensky and Putin that the two, while being positively inclined, \u201care not yet ready\u201d<\/em> to meet.<\/p>\n

During his bilateral with Erdogan on Monday, Putin said that Ankara\u2019s role as mediator \u201cwill remain in demand in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In May, Kiev agreed to resume direct talks with Moscow after encouragement from the Trump administration, a process it unilaterally abandoned in 2022. Several rounds of discussions have since resulted in prisoner exchanges and the repatriation of fallen soldiers\u2019 remains.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the sidelines of the Tianjin summit, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov stated that Putin and Trump had indeed discussed raising the level of the negotiating teams, but no decision had been finalized, contrary to media reports.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that while the Russian president \u201cdoes not rule out the possibility of holding such a meeting <\/em>[with Zelensky],\u201d<\/em> it \u201cshould be well prepared\u2026 at an expert level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Around the same time, Trump told the outlet Daily Caller that a trilateral meeting between himself, Putin and Zelensky \u201cwill happen,\u201d<\/em> but that the prospect of a bilateral Russia-Ukraine summit was uncertain, as \u201csometimes people aren\u2019t ready for it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump has actively called for direct talks between the two since his summit with the Russian president in Alaska in mid-August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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