The telephone conversation took place before Erdoğan's speech at the session of the UN General Assembly.
Presidents of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed security issues.
“Had a telephone conversation with the President of Turkey. We discussed urgent security issues,” Zelensky briefly reported on Twitter.
Had a telephone conversation with the President of Turkey @RTErdogan. Current security issues were discussed.
— Volodymyr Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) September 20, 2022
The telephone conversation took place before Erdogan's speech at the session of the UN General Assembly, CNN Turk clarifies. Neither the Ukrainian nor the Turkish side provided details of the conversation.
On September 20, a week of high-level meetings within the framework of the 77th UN General Assembly begins in New York. The Russian-Ukrainian war is one of the main topics of the current session.
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Meanwhile, The Russian Federation is preparing to hold referendums in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions. The Kremlin claims that the annexation of Ukrainian territories under the “Crimean scenario” is aimed atto turn the war against Ukraine into a confrontation between the Russian Federation and “Ukraine and NATO” and to “untie the hands” of the aggressor up to the point of using nuclear weapons.
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But the most likely option is the option of blackmailing the Russian Federation on against the background of the successful counteroffensive of the Armed Forces. The Kremlin needs an operational pause to regroup troops, bring in reserves, weapons and ammunition. And the threat of territorial annexation, in the eyes of the Russian authorities, looks like a “good argument” for Ukraine and its partners to return to the negotiating table.
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