9/20/23
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Moscow’s grueling war in Ukraine to end “as soon as possible,” Turkey’s leader said, as the almost 19-month-old conflict shows no signs of finishing.
“It’s quite obvious that this war is going to last a long time,” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told PBS News.
Ankara has acted as a negotiator between Moscow and Kyiv since the outbreak of all-out war in Ukraine in February 2022. Turkey was heavily involved in the United Nations-brokered Black Sea grain deal, which had allowed Ukraine to export grain from its southern ports and stave off fears of a global food shortage. Russia refused to renew this deal in July.
Turkey has sent military aid to Ukraine, including unmanned aerial vehicles. But Ankara has also maintained economic ties with Russia and avoided leveling the same amount of sanctions against the Kremlin as other NATO countries over the war.
“Russia happens to be one of my closest neighbors,” Erdoğan said, later adding that Moscow is as “equally reliable” as Western countries. “At this moment in time, I trust Russia just as much as I trust the West,” he told PBS.
The Russian leader “is actually on the side of ending this war as soon as possible,” Erdoğan continued.
Newsweek has reached out to the Kremlin for comment via email.
Analysts have suggested that the Russia expected to finish off its invasion of Ukraine within a week and a half, making sweeping gains in the initial days of the invasion that started on February 24, 2022.
But this failed to materialize in the face of what experts called Ukrainian defiance that took the Kremlin by surprise. Western analyses have also suggested that Moscow made a number of crucial mistakes in the early phases, including how it used its tank crews, sustaining heavy losses of experienced personnel.
Russia currently controls about one-fifth of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory. Kyiv’s ongoing counteroffensive, which began in early June, has rolled back some Russian positions in the annexed south and east of the war-torn country, but progress has been slower than Ukraine, and its supporters, had hoped.
In the past week, Ukraine said it had reclaimed two Donetsk villages close to the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut, which Russia captured in May. Ukraine also said in early September it was between the first and second line of Russian defenses around Robotyne, a town in the southern Zaporizhzhia region that had seen heavy fighting.
“Russia happens to be one of my closest neighbors,” Erdoğan said, later adding that Moscow is as “equally reliable” as Western countries. “At this moment in time, I trust Russia just as much as I trust the West,”
Does Erdogoon also trust the over-priced S-400s?
Clearly, this guy is an asshole and whatever he says must be taken with a cup of salt. If he trusts the war criminal so much, then what is Turkey still in NATO for?
Putler can have his quick end to this war; get the hell out of Ukraine. But, that’s not going to happen for obvious reasons. If Erdogoon is right, then the mafia runt is caught between the proverbial rock and hard place.
Of course Vladolf wants to end the war as soon as possible, we knew that right away. But what is missing is Vladolf’s mission to destroy and control Ukraine, that’s why the war isn’t finished yet, because that’s not going to happen.
Well, Mr. Erdogan, “your messages I hear, but faith has not been given.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His weasel words reveal clearly for the first time that Erdogan is backing putler.
Georgia’s borders with Vladikavkas and occupied South Ossetia (actually the Tskhinvali region of Georgia) are crammed 24-7 with trucks delivering European luxury fmcg’s, toiletries, consumer durables, brown/white goods, tech products, fashion etc to putlerstan.
Intermediaries are Turkish, German, Serb etc crooks all making a killing out of the war.
Turkey’s Mediterranean 5* beach hotels are crammed with putinaZi scum right now.
I just don’t know how we can tolerate such a trash country in our midst. Just like the other trash country, Hungary. I guess those straits are just too enticing, although not of much use with Erdogoon in charge.
If the Nazi rat in Moscow wants peace, he knows what he has to do. The problem is that it won’t get him what he wants. That, however, is out of reach.
In other words, the runt fucked himself.
> Putin wants Moscow’s grueling war in Ukraine to end “as soon as possible,”
So, do what your father should have done:
Pull out !
😂👍