Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he wants to hold talks with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the organization of their possible meeting.

"I am determined to hold talks with Putin and Zelenskyy. I will tell them that our goal now is to arrange their meeting as soon as possible. I hope we can agree on a date for a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, we are ready to organize it," the Anatolian news agency quoted Erdogan as telling Turkish journalists on his return from Uzbekistan on Thursday.