Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu is set to visit Russia, followed by Ukraine, amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war between the two countries, Turkiye’s president said on Tuesday.

Çavuşoğlu will hold talks in Moscow some time on Wednesday before travelling to Ukraine on Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said after chairing a nearly three-hour-long Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara.

This comes days after Çavuşoğlu hosted a landmark tripartite meeting with his counterparts from these two countries on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, held last week in southern Turkiye.

Nearly 400 local and foreign journalists came to the resort city to follow the meeting.

“The Ukraine crisis has reminded us that it is not a choice but an obligation for Turkiye to be strong in the political, economic, and military fields and to be in a position to support its friends and brothers beyond its self-sufficiency,” he said.

Erdoğan added that he would meet with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda sometime today/on Wednesday in Ankara.