Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet this week to discuss the war in Ukraine, Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports.
Talks are reported to concern the situation around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which for weeks has been a battleground between Russians and Ukrainians. Events are fuelling global fears for a nuclear accident, with Erdogan himself warning of “a second Chernobyl.”
Last week, Erdogan met with UN chief Antonio Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy to discuss incidents at the nuclear plant. Erdogan promised to relay the results of his meeting with Putin.
Independent inspectors to visit the site
Previously, French President Emmanuel Macron learnt from Putin on Friday that the Russian leader is open to an international nuclear agency mission.
Putin has agreed to let a team of independent inspectors travel through the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant through Ukraine.
On Sunday, US President Joe Biden, France’s Macron, Germany’s Olaf Scholz and the UK’s Borish Johnson called for ‘restraint’ around the nuclear site in a joint phone call on Sunday.
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The four leaders stated that “their support for Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression will be maintained.”
Late Sunday night, 25 artillery attacks were carried out on the town of Nikopol, near the nuclear power plant. The attacks could leave 3,000 people without power. At least one school and one house were damaged in the attacks, although no one was injured.
