Zelensky asks Erdogan to help with the release of 450 extremists
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, held earlier in New York, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met with Turkish leader Recep Erdogan and asked for his help in releasing extremists detained and convicted in Russia.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba announced this at a briefing in Kyiv, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Kuleba, Erdogan was supposed to hand over this list to Russian President Vladimir Putin during yesterday's meeting of heads of state in Sochi.
"President Zelenskyy met with President Erdogan in New York. They had a lengthy one-on-one meeting, followed by a lengthy delegation meeting. We compared notes on both the bilateral agenda and on the issues President Erdogan intended to raise with President Putin. Specifically, President Zelenskyy handed President Erdogan a list of 450 Ukrainian prisoners, including Nariman Dzhelalov, and asked President Erdogan to put in a good word for them with President Putin, because we need to free our people from Russian prisons," Kuleba said.
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