Turkey is mediating between Russia and Ukraine, and it seems that its efforts may bear fruit, especially after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he informed him of Moscow's demands to reach a peace agreement with the Ukrainian side. Half an hour after the call ended on Thursday, the BBC interviewed Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan's chief adviser and spokesman, who was among the few Turkish officials who listened to the call. The Russian demands fall into two categories. The first four are, according to Kalin. , is not very difficult for Ukraine to fulfill, the most important of which is that Kyiv accept the need to be neutral and not apply to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "NATO". Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has already acknowledged this.
