Erdogan: Ukraine "deserves" to join NATO

Ukraine "deserves to join NATO", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday after a meeting in Istanbul with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimir Zelenski, reports Agerpres.

Kiev wants to join the North Atlantic Alliance, but the United States warned on Friday that Ukraine "will not join NATO" at the end of the alliance's summit scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Vilnius.

The Ankara leader, who announced Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit "next month" to Turkey, said Russia and Ukraine "should return to peace talks".

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski arrived in Turkey for talks with his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The visit is one of his diplomatic moves ahead of next week's NATO summit. The Ukrainian leader has already visited Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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