Turkey is ready to give all possible assistance during negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, President Tayyip Erdoğan told Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a telephone call, the Turkish presidency said on Sunday.
Zelenskiy said he and Erdoğan discussed the urgent need for immediate evacuation of civilians from the mostly Russian-occupied port city of Mariupol, and the exchange of Ukrainian troops holed up in the surrounded but Ukrainian-held Azovstal factory.