JAKARTA - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with US President Joe Biden and with Turkish and French leaders on Sunday, increasing diplomatic activity around the war started by Russia, which has entered its 10th month.
"We continue to work with partners," President Zelensky said in his evening video address.
President Zelensky said he expects some "important results" next week, from a series of international events that will address the situation in Ukraine.
President Zelensky has held many talks with Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, since Russian forces invaded in late February, the accumulation of discussions in just one day is not an ordinary event.
President Zelensky said he had thanked Biden for the "unprecedented defense and financial" assistance the United States has given to Ukraine and spoke with the US President about an effective anti-aircraft defense system to protect residents.
Earlier, President Zelensky said he had "very meaningful" conversations with President Macron about "detention, energy, economy, diplomacy" lasting more than an hour and "very specific" talks.
While in talks with Turkish President Erdogan, President Zelensky aims to ensure the export of grains from Ukraine.
Turkey, which acted as mediators in peace talks in the early months of war, is also working with the United Nations on a seed deal, which opened Ukraine's port for export in July following a six-month de facto blockade.
Separately, President Erdogan's office said the Turkish leader also made a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, in which he called for the conflict to end soon.
President Putin said last week that Moscow's nearly total loss of confidence in the West would make resolving the end of Ukraine's conflict much more difficult to achieve, warning of a protracted war.
Meanwhile, President Macron has fought for diplomacy in the conflict, but his mixed message is that Kyiv decided when to negotiate with Moscow.
But, he also said that security guarantees needed for Russia had confused some of the Western allies, Kyiv, and Baltic countries.
There have been no peace talks and no end to the deadliest conflict in Europe since the Second World War, which Moscow calls a "special military operation", while Ukraine and its allies are groundless acts of aggression.
Moscow shows no signs of being ready to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and borders before the war, saying the four territories claimed to have been annexed from Ukraine in September were part of Russia "forever". Meanwhile, the government in Kyiv has ruled out the handover of any land to Russia in exchange for peace.
It is known that Russia continues to bombard Ukraine in the eastern region fiercely. Moscow targets Ukraine's energy infrastructure with a wave of missile and drone attacks, sometimes cutting off electricity for millions of civilians in winter, when the average temperature can be a few degrees below zero Celsius.
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