Zelenskiy's talks with other leaders signal diplomatic flurry around Ukraine - Yahoo News

By Nick Starkov

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with U.S. President Joe Biden and with the leaders of Turkey and France connected Sunday, an summation successful diplomatic enactment astir the warfare started by Russia that is dragging into a 10th month.

"We are perpetually moving with partners," Zelenskiy said successful his nightly video address, adding that helium expects immoderate "important results" adjacent week from a bid of planetary events that volition tackle the concern successful Ukraine.

While Zelenskiy has held galore talks with Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan since Russian forces invaded successful precocious February, the accumulation of discussions successful conscionable 1 time is not a regular event.

Zelenskiy said helium had thanked Biden for "unprecedented defence and financial" assistance the United States has provided for Ukraine and talked with the U.S. president astir an effectual anti-aircraft defence systems to support the population.

Earlier, Zelenskiy said that helium held "a precise meaningful" speech with Macron connected "defence, energy, economy, diplomacy" that lasted much than an hr and "very specific" talks with Erdogan connected assuring Ukraine's atom exports.

Turkey, which acted arsenic a mediator successful bid talks successful the aboriginal months of the war, besides worked alongside the United Nations successful a atom deal, which opened up Ukrainian ports for exports successful July aft a six-month de facto Russian blockade.

Erdogan's bureau said the Turkish person had a telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Sunday, successful which helium had called for a speedy extremity to the conflict.

Putin said past week that Moscow's near-total nonaccomplishment of spot successful the West would marque an eventual colony implicit Ukraine overmuch harder to scope and warned of a protracted war.

Macron has championed diplomacy successful the struggle but his mixed messages that it was up to Kyiv to determine erstwhile to negociate with Moscow, but besides that information guarantees were needed for Russia, person unnerved immoderate Western allies, Kyiv and the Baltic countries.

There are nary bid talks and nary extremity successful show to the deadliest struggle successful Europe since World War Two, which Moscow calls a "special subject operation" and Ukraine and its allies an unprovoked enactment of aggression.

Moscow shows nary signs of being acceptable to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and pre-war borders, saying the 4 regions it claims to person annexed from Ukraine successful September are portion of Russia "forever." The authorities successful Kyiv has ruled retired conceding immoderate onshore to Russia successful instrumentality for peace.

On the crushed successful Ukraine, the full eastbound beforehand enactment has been continuously shelled with dense warring taking place. Moscow is besides targeting Ukraine's vigor infrastructure with waves of rocket and drone strikes, astatine times cutting disconnected energy for millions of civilians successful winter, erstwhile mean temperatures tin beryllium respective degrees beneath zero Celsius.

(Reporting by Nick Starkov successful Kyiv; Additional reporting by Ronald Popeski successful Winnipeg, Canada; Writing by Lidia Kelly; editing by Grant McCool)