Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Istanbul for “substantive” talks on security issues with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, Zelenskiy said on Saturday.
“We are working to strengthen our partnership to ensure real protection of people’s lives, advance stability and guarantee security in our Europe, as well as in the Middle East,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.
He did not elaborate further on the subject of the talks. Ukraine has recently signed security co-operation agreements with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, and says it is in talks with several other Middle Eastern states about similar arrangements.
After the outbreak of war in the Middle East, Ukraine has sought to leverage its counter-drone experience acquired during its four-year-long war with Russia.
