It has been nearly 11 months since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. Turkey, which facilitated the Ukrainian grain export agreement between Ukraine and Russia, stated on the 14th that neither the Kyiv nor Moscow authorities have the military means to win the war, and Turkey is ready to push for a “partial ceasefire” in Ukraine.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign policy adviser, Ibrahim Kalin, said it seemed unlikely that warring Russia and Ukraine would be ready to reach a “comprehensive peace agreement” in the coming months, according to Agence France-Presse. , but the brutal cost of the war may make both Ukraine and Russia reconsider and accept partial ceasefires in specific warring areas.
“Turkey is willing to push for a partial ceasefire, and a small, localized cooling,” Kalin told reporters, emphasizing: “From a military point of view, no side can win a ground war.” The respect of major powers, and (avoid) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in their backyard”, as for Ukraine, it also needs sufficient security guarantees from Russia.
Prior to this, Erdogan tried his best to mediate the end of the war by relying on his good relations with Moscow and Kyiv. He had many phone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Turkey, a NATO member, hosted two rounds of preliminary peace talks and also helped broker a U.N.-backed deal between Ukraine and Russia to resume Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea.
