Erdogan says Putin, Zelenskiy “not yet ready” for face-to-face meet on war

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he discussed ways to end the Ukraine war with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during talks in China and with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy by phone, but that the sides were “not yet ready” for a leaders’ meeting.

Erdogan spoke to reporters aboard his plane returning from China, where he met Putin and then said he called Zelenskiy. He said talks in recent months between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul showed the path to peace remains…