Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held bilateral meetings with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Thursday.
Çavuşoğlu noted that he held the meeting ahead of the groundbreaking trilateral meeting between Turkey, Russia and Ukraine to find a solution to the crisis.
On Monday, Çavuşoğlu announced the meeting would be held between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers.
Çavuşoğlu will attend the meeting since both leaders have requested his presence, the minister said, adding that it will bring high-level Russian and Ukrainian officials together for the first time since the war began on Feb. 24.
The three-day Antalya Diplomacy Forum in the Turkish resort city of the same name is set to start Friday, and the Russian-Ukrainian meeting the day prior.
