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efforts to broker & cease
between Moscow and
Kyiv:
The conflict between the twO countries has left
Turkey in a precarious SpO: It considers Ukraine
an ally; has supplied armed drones to Kyiv and
condemned the Russia invasion a5 illegal. Turkey
also has important commercial and energy ties to
Russia. And more than 100 Turkish citizens remain
trapped in besieged Mariupol, sheltering in a
mosque;
has already carried out evacuations of
nearly 15,000 of its citizens from Ukraine, but a
few hundred remain, Turkish Foreign Minister
Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday
a news
conference in Ankara: He said he had spoken to
both Russia and Ukraine about getting the Turkish
nationals out of Mariupol. "Conditions for the
evacuations from Mariupol are slowly forming; we
are
waiting for the good news today 0r tOmorow;
he said:
Last week; Turkey hosted Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart for
talks that ended with no breakthrough. Erdogan,
speaking
visit to Turkey on Monday by
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said the tWO
leaders had "agreed that diplomatic efforts for a
solurion should he accelerated
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