President Volodymyr Zelenskyi discussed relations between Ukraine and Turkey, as well as regional issues with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president’s communications department said in a statement on Tuesday .
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“Regional issues and issues that will improve Turkish-Ukrainian relations were discussed during the talks,” the Erdogan administration said.
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The phone call came amid a warning from the United States that Russia could plan to invade Ukraine as Moscow builds forces on the western border.
U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the Pentagon, recently said they were closely monitoring the build-up of military power, but Bloomberg reported that the Biden administration went further and officially warned allies about the European Union about a possible Russian military offensive.
Shortly after the warning, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Russia on Monday that the Western military alliance was on Ukraine’s side amid an unusual deployment of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders.
Turkey, a NATO member, has criticized Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and said it supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The United States and the UN General Assembly also consider the annexation illegal.
Source: Ukrgate
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