Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who paid a two-day visit to Moscow earlier this week, will also travel to Kyiv this week, a Turkish official told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.
“The minister is planning to travel to Kyiv this week,” the official said on condition of anonymity, without indicating exactly when the trip would take place.
Turkey has good relations with both Russia and Ukraine and earlier in May hosted the first direct talks between the two warring sides since shortly after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. No ceasefire was agreed, but the sides did agree to trade 1,000 prisoners of war and deliver, in writing, their conditions for a possible ceasefire.
During his visit to Moscow, Fidan met with Vladimir Putin on Monday and also Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky.
In their meeting Putin and Fidan discussed “the initiatives carried out recently to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, [and] developments following the negotiations held in İstanbul,” according to media reports.