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Erdogan offers Ukraine-Russia peace summit to defuse crisis

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine [Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]

On a visit to Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to hold a Ukraine-Russia summit as EU leaders stepped up outreach to the Kremlin to defuse fears Moscow could invade.

The diplomatic offensive came as Russia accused the United States of ratcheting up “tensions” by sending 1,000 soldiers to Romania and 2,000 to Poland to bolster NATO’s eastern flank.

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