Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have arrived in the western city of Lviv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The tripartite summit should focus primarily on efforts to end the war. Erdogan and Guterres also refuted criticism: relatives of captured soldiers accused them of inaction.
Dozens of demonstrators protested Thursday in front of the Potocki Palace, the site of the meeting of the three top politicians. They held up banners asking for help and denouncing the inaction of international organizations (see video above). Some of the criticism has been very strong, with some posters accusing the UN and the Red Cross of supporting terrorism.
Many are relatives of Ukrainians imprisoned in Russia, mainly soldiers who surrendered to Russian forces after the fall of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in May.
“Why aren’t they performing?”
“I don’t understand why the pick-up process doesn’t go through, because we all asked Erdogan about it. The soldiers asked him about it too. I don’t understand that,” said Anastasia Zanos, the betrothed of a detained soldier. She also criticized the UN and other international organizations. “Why aren’t they performing? Why aren’t they doing anything? That’s their job, that’s why these organizations exist,” Zanos says.
Selenskyj and Erdogan have already met for talks. The three-day meeting with UN chief Guterres is scheduled for later in the afternoon. For the United Nations and Turkey, the meeting is about an attempt to find a negotiated solution, nearly six months after the Russian attack on Ukraine.
Situation in Zaporizhzhya remains precarious
In addition, the situation in the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is occupied by Russian troops, and the possibilities of an international expert mission. On Wednesday evening, Zelenskyy again called for the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Source: Krone
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