Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone on Thursday that Russian-Ukrainian peace talks in Istanbul this week had given "meaningful impetus" to efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine, Erdogan's office said.

In the phone call, Erdogan reiterated his proposal to bring together Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Turkey, the Turkish presidency statement said.