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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Astana, on the sidelines of a regional summit in the Kazakhstan capital, a Turkish official told AFP news agency today.
Turkey, which has maintained a neutral position since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, had already offered to mediate the opening of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow.
Erdogan – who has yet to comment on Russian attacks on several cities in Ukraine on Monday that left at least 19 dead and around 100 wounded – said Ankara’s “balanced” approach to the conflict was being appreciated by the West.
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