The Kremlin expects Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
to make Vladimir Putin a concrete proposal for mediation on the conflict in Ukraine at their meeting tomorrow in Kazakhstan.
"The Turks are proposing their own mediation. If there should be contracts (between Russia and Ukraine), these will take place on Turkish territory," said Kremlin diplomatic adviser Yuri Ushakov.
"Erdogan will probably propose something officially", he added, saying he expected an "interesting and useful interview".
"Never say never".
Thus the diplomatic adviser of the Kremlin, Yuri Ushakov, replied in Moscow to journalists who asked him about the refusal of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate with Vladimir Putin, in view of the mediation proposal that the Turkish president could make tomorrow in the meeting with the Russian leader.
"We want to keep the door of diplomacy open".
This was stated by Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for President Erdogan, as reported by Sabah commenting on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
"Those who believe there is no more ground for diplomacy are often wrong," added Kalin stating that "on the contrary, diplomacy becomes even more important in times like these", "when war rages on.
Russia expects Erdogan, in tomorrow's meeting with Vladimir Putin, to present his proposals
on the formats for possible negotiations
between Moscow and the West.
This was stated by the assistant to the Russian head of state, Yuri Ushakov.
Responding to a question from journalists whether the Turkish proposal also concerned contacts between Moscow and Kiev, Ushakov said: "Several initiatives are mainly discussed in the media, which cite various formats of dialogue, including Russia and the United States, and the main countries of the Western Europe ".
The Kremlin, he added, "expects the Turks to propose something" on this issue.
"We never refuse negotiations or other useful international contacts. We never remove an outstretched hand. But if we hear and understand that a partner does not want to meet us for one reason or another,
we do not impose ourselves
": the Kremlin diplomatic adviser said. Yuri Ushakov, quoted by Russian agencies, responding to a question on the hypothesis of a face to face between Putin and Biden at the G20.
The American president in an interview with CNN said that a possible meeting with the Russian leader would depend on the subject of the conversation.
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In last Saturday's attack on the Crimean bridge 22,770 kg of explosives
were used
: the Russian intelligence (FSB) announced it, explaining that the explosives had been loaded on 22 pallets (for transport) and was wrapped in rolls of construction polyethylene.
Tass reports it.
"The explosive was hidden in rolls of construction polyethylene on 22 pallets for a total weight of 22,770 kilos - the FSB said -. It was shipped from the port of Odessa to the Bulgarian city of Ruse in early August".
The expedition was organized on the basis of a 2 August contract between Translogistics UA (Kiev) and Baltex Capital (Ruse).
The terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge was planned by the
head of Ukrainian military intelligence
, Kirill Budanov: Russian intelligence (FSB) affirms this, according to reports from TASS.
According to the Russian investigative committee,
the number of arrested people involved in the explosion rises to 12 .
This was stated by the committee on Telegram, as reported by Ria Novosti.
"In the context of the criminal proceedings, 12 people directly connected to the terrorist act were identified. The evidence obtained indicates that the terrorist act was organized by the special services of Ukraine", says the statement released by the head of the investigative committee Alexander Bastrykin.
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Russia's latest assault on Ukraine only reinforced our goal of supporting Kiev.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said this during a meeting with the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine in Brussels.
The Russian army hit the central market in the city of Avdiivka,
in Donetsk Oblast
, killing seven civilians and wounding eight, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said, as reported by the Kyiv Independent.
"There is no military logic in this attack, just an unbridled desire to kill as many people as possible and scare more," Kyrylenko said.
"Over the past few weeks we have seen
the biggest escalation
since the beginning of the war: Russia has mobilized thousands of troops, has indiscriminately hit Ukrainian cities and uses the nuclear threat.
Today we will see Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksij Reznikov.
The message is that we will support Ukraine as much as needed. "This was said by NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg also said that the Belarusian president Lukashenko is" complicit "with Russia in this war and must" stop helping it ".