Ukraine, Putin to Erdogan: “Gas hub in Turkey to regulate prices”

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet in Astana, Kazakhstan to talk about the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the Turkish media. Putin explained to his Turkish counterpart his proposal to create the largest gas hub in Europe in Turkey. “The gas prices of a hub in Turkey could be determined without political influence”, said the Russian president, who then expressing appreciation for the reliability shown by Ankara added: “The Russian energy supply to Turkey is in line with the requests and could be increased “. Read also Putin then again accused Ukraine of trying to blow up the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. However, the pipeline works well, Putin pointed out that he had already denounced this alleged action on Monday, in his meeting with the Security Council. “Communication at the top of Russia and Turkey is working well and is giving positive results”, Putin told Erdogan again, underlining how all the objectives agreed at the Sochi summit last August are being implemented. “Despite all the difficulties associated with health and political restrictions, we always find ways to meet regularly and communicate. This gives good results,” said the Russian President in his meeting today in Astana with Erdogan. Turkey is “determined” to “strengthen the wheat agreement, we must ensure that supplies continue and that they are not interrupted,” said Erdogan. It is also necessary to ensure that “Russian wheat and fertilizers are sent to less developed countries via Istanbul and we are very determined” on this.