Kremlin: They talked about Ukraine Putin-Erdogan – ‘We are worried about Transnistria’

The presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had a telephone conversation focusing on Ukraine, the Kremlin said, without elaborating on the content of the two leaders’ discussion.

According to Turkish sources quoted by Reuters, the Turkish head of state stressed to his Russian counterpart that the positive momentum reached in the Istanbul talks between the Russia and Ukraine negotiating teams must be maintained, and once again called on a meeting of See. Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, with his own mediating role.

Russia, the Russian presidency has said, is closely monitoring developments in the pro-Russian, separatist “Transnistrian Republic” in Moldova, saying the news from the region is a cause for “serious concern”.

In Transnistria, where there have been no clashes or battles since its de facto secession from Moldova – with the help of Russia – in 1992, there have been explosions and attacks in recent days, targeting a military unit, the state security building. and old radio antennas.

Moldovan President Maia Santou has convened an emergency meeting of the country’s Security Council at noon.

Since the end of the brief armed conflict in Transnistria, Russia has kept about 1,500 troops there in the territory of the separatist “democracy”, while Ukraine fears a possible attack from there for flanking its forces and siege of Odessa.

Source: Capital

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