Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard spoke again with her Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Wednesday, she tells TT, among others, in conjunction with the NATO meeting in Turkish Belek.
Swedish politicsThe top meeting about the Russian invasion war in Ukraine was without presidents. Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyj accused Russia of not wanting peace, after the Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he would stay away. USA's Donald Trump also chose absence from the meeting in Istanbul.
ConflictsInto the final preparations for talks between Russia and Ukraine are surrounded by tactical play, says conflict researcher Peter Wallensteen: No one wants to be left holding the bag and be the one who says no.
ConflictsThe President of the USA, Donald Trump, has met Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia. It is the first time in 25 years that leaders of the two countries have met, writes the news agency AP.
WorldUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj announces that he will meet Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. He then hopes to meet Russia's leader Vladimir Putin.
WorldUSA's President Donald Trump says that he can imagine going to Turkey on Thursday to join a meeting between Ukraine and Russia. This is welcomed by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyj – but from Russia's Vladimir Putin it is silent.
ConflictsTerror-listed Kurdish PKK is dissolved, reports the Kurdish news agency Firat. A historic milestone, cheers Turkey's government. President Erdogan's ruling party emphasizes the importance of the dissolution affecting all PKK branches.
WorldUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj states that he wants to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin during the coming week. "I will be waiting for Putin in Turkey. Personally. I hope that the Russians this time will not come up with any excuses", he writes on X.
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