Is Ukraine war about to end ? Ukraine and Russia reach “an understanding” on certain topics

News Desk March 25, 2022 in EUROPE, UKRAINE WAR, WORLD - 2 Minutes

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday that Ukraine and Russia seem to have reached ‘an understanding’ on four out of six topics of disagreement discussed during negotiations.

Speaking to reporters on his way back from a NATO summit in Brussels, Erdoğan also said he will speak with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday and with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend “or [during the] first days of the next week.”

“There are six topics of negotiation between Russia and Ukraine, there seems to be an understanding between them about four topics,” Erdoğan said.
“At first, Ukraine was hung up on this issue, but later on, Zelensky began to express that he could withdraw from NATO membership. Another issue is the acceptance of Russian as an official language. Zelensky also admitted this. Russian is a language spoken almost everywhere in Ukraine. There is no problem at this point either,” Erdoğan said.

Erdoğan also said Zelensky’s comments about the need for a referendum on compromises with Russia was “smart leadership.” Zelensky said Monday any constitutional changes that relate to security guarantees in the country would need to be decided through a referendum and not by him alone.

About his upcoming call with Putin, Erdoğan said “we should discuss and evaluate” NATO meetings. “We have to look for a way to smooth this business by saying ‘make an honorable exit to this,'” Erdoğan said.

“On the other hand, we [Turkey] certainly consider the use of weapons of mass destruction as a crime against humanity,” he added.