The Turks were certainly on the front country, trying to push both sides to peace - let us remember peace talks in Antalya and Istanbul early this year and an agreement on grain for which the Turkish side should receive a considerable credibility credit.
For Erdogan, the war in Ukraine only deepens his political problems at home - the elections should take place in June next year, its ratings are falling, and the war causes a huge blow to the Turkish economy, when it is constantly close to the balance of payments with the highest account for imports of food and energy.
The video of the day is a little worried about Erdogan's administration - they are too desperate to push the peace agreement in Istanbul and Antalya, which seemed to be concluded on the terms of Russia, not Ukraine. So, for obvious reasons, Ukrainians rejected what was offered at that time. There is naivety in the Turkish approach, but Ukrainians are not so meaningless to accept everything that Putin offers. The Turks have to understand it.
It seems that this time Putin is ready to offer negotiations with Zelensky before the form of a future peace agreement is determined - the idea is to meet, to discuss problems, and then to develop a peace agreement on the basis of their team.
It would be a striking change compared to negotiations in Istanbul and Antalya, when the Russian approach was like this: “Here are our conditions, accept them or give them up, but in essence we get everything that we occupy now, and you have to give up the aspirations for NATO But demilitarize. " Ukraine has never been going to accept these conditions, especially after Ukrainians met with Russian Goliath in the Battle of Kyiv.
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