Zelensky expects ‘important events’ next week from series of international events tackling Ukraine crisis
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with U.S. President Joe Biden and with the leaders of Turkey and France on Sunday, an increase in diplomatic activity around the war started by Russia that is dragging into a 10th month.
Zelensky said he had thanked Biden for “unprecedented defence and financial” help the United States has provided for Ukraine and talked with the U.S. president about an effectiveEarlier, Zelensky said that he held “a very meaningful” conversation with Macron on “defence, energy, economy, diplomacy” that lasted more than an hour and “very specific” talks with Erdogan on assuring Ukraine’s grain exports.
Erdogan’s office said the Turkish leader had a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, in which he had called for a quick end to the conflict. Macron has championed diplomacy in the conflict but his mixed messages that it was up to Kyiv to decide when to negotiate with Moscow, but also that security guarantees were needed for Russia, have unnerved some Western allies, Kyiv and the Baltic countries.
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