UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky hosted diplomatic talks today between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres.

The meeting was held in the western city of Lviv, far from the front lines of Ukraine’s war with Russian invasion forces, after the Morning Star went to press.

Mr Guterres was expected to use his visit to focus on containing the volatile situation at a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant, while Mr Erdogan sought to broker a deal to expand grain exports from Ukraine.