Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Turkey next month. This was announced yesterday evening (Friday 7 July) by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the joint press conference at the end of the bilateral meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, received in Istanbul.A few days before the NATO summit in Vilnius (Lithuania), scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, the Turkish head of state - who leads the second largest army in the alliance after the American one and is the only leader of the organization who could theoretically go to Moscow, having not imposed any sanctions on Russia – told his host that Ukraine “deserves to integrate NATO structures”. Zelenski for his part thanked him for his support for Ukrainian territorial integrity.