US President Donald Trump said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could help end the war in Ukraine, UNIAN reported.
Trump stressed that Erdogan has an advantage due to his good relations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. „Yes, Erdogan can. "Russia respects him," the American leader said.
He called Erdogan his friend, noting that "he only gets along with the strong, not the weak," and stressed that they have good relations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that he would meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, where the two would discuss Ukraine's air defenses and long-range missile strike capabilities, Reuters reported.
In a conversation with reporters in Kiev, Zelensky said he had shared with Trump a vision of how many U.S. Tomahawk missiles Ukraine needed for its military efforts against Russia and that the two leaders would discuss further details on the matter.