SpaceWar.com reports: “As officials in Washington, D.C., and Moscow prepare to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is critical of negotiations that exclude his nation.

Zelensky on Tuesday said efforts to end the war must involve European nations, Turkey and the United Kingdom, and must include Ukrainian negotiators to ensure a ‘fair’ negotiations process, France 24 reported.

‘Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense, and this includes the European Union, Turkey and the U.K., should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world,’ Zelensky said.

He criticized preliminary peace talks between the United States and Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to end the war that began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Zelensky met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday to open a new Ukrainian Embassy and discuss possible prisoner exchanges between Ukraine and Russia and other matters, the Kyiv Post reported.

Turkey is a member of NATO and has continued its diplomatic ties with Ukraine and Russia during the Ukraine war.

Turkey also has supplied Ukraine with drones while Erdogan has acted as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia, including negotiating prior prisoner exchanges between the two combatants…”