Posted on 03/09/2022 12:24:52 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Putin’s lapdog Sergei Lavrov has landed in Turkey to meet Kyiv’s foreign minister for talks on Thursday for the first time since Russia’s lawless invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian foreign secretary will negotiate with Dmytro Kuleba at the southern Turkish resort city of Antalya at a summit mediated by Ankara’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Moscow and Kyiv’s meeting in the NATO country will be the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the Kremlin launched a full-scale operation to ‘demilitarise’ and ‘deNazify’ Ukraine – dismissed as baseless pretexts by Kyiv and her Western partners, including Britain and the US.
While Turkey has supplied Ukraine with drones and other military hardware, it has also opposed sweeping international sanctions on Russia.
Senior Turkish presidential advisor Ilnur Cevik said the fact that the meeting is happening is a success, adding: ‘They recognize Turkey as an honest broker, it seems. So, we are very happy about that, we don’t know where it will take us, but the fact that it’s happening is very, very significant.’
Kuleba confirmed in a video on Facebook he was preparing to meet Lavrov on Thursday, warning that his expectations were ‘limited’. He said the success of the talks would depend on ‘what instructions and directives Lavrov is under’ from the Kremlin at the discussions.
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Turkey as an honest broker?!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Turkey has no plans to cut Russian oil imports, welcomes Iran supply
Russian shopping centers may replace Western brands with Turkish and Chinese ones
End it, for God’s sake.
Nice job, Brandon. China is the winner in this Ukraine war.
Daily Mail is hysterical. Not funny. Screeching mad.
Filtering out all the propaganda noise, this is one of the few meaningful bits of information left. I imagine they have the beginnings of an agreement, going into the talks. Otherwise, why bother?
If war is an extension of diplomacy, the question is whose diplomats are about to cry uncle. Ukraine? Russia? Both?
Snipers?
‘Putin’s lapdog’ yes the old Daily Mail sure is a purveyor of unbiased, factual reporting. The go to paper for WW3ers
WHO let the dogs out, dogs of war, dog days, dogmeat.
I realize “lapdog” is a biased description and has no place in journalism —but seriously let’s all lighten up a bit
“Lapdog” was literally laugh out loud for me, that was hilarious.
And Sergei probably IS Putin’s lapdog. I hope no one tries to twist my words — it is outrageously lousy and biased journalism.
I just found it an amusing turn of phrase by the Daily Mail. it’s funny as hell writing.
I think Putin did not think ahead. The marketplace is killing Russia. Large energy concerns reduced to penny status. Skyrocketing interest rates. Currency in demolition mode.
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