MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. The possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky was not touched upon at the Russian-Turkish talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference after his talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday.

"We did not discuss that in detail today, as President [Vladimir] Putin and our other representatives have repeatedly touched upon this issue in their comments, answering the corresponding questions," the minister said. "There are no obstacles to arranging such a meeting provided that it won’t be a meeting for meeting’s sake, but it will be a contact between the presidents that will consolidate the agreements that are being worked out between the two delegations."

Lavrov pointed out that Russia was willing to negotiate with Ukraine only the meetings that would result in practical solutions. According to the Russian foreign minister, the Ukrainian leadership wants to meet only for the sake of a picture on television. However, once real agreements are reached, Kiev sabotages them, as it was with the Minsk accords.

"So we have learned a very important lesson from those manners of the Ukrainian leaders. Now, we are going to negotiate the meetings that will definitely have added value on all the key issues which triggered the current conflict," Lavrov added.

On February 28, the first round of Russian-Ukrainian talks took place in the Gomel region, Belarus, and lasted five hours. The second round held on March 3, also in Belarus, resulted in an agreement on humanitarian corridors for civilians. The third round took place in the Brest region on March 7. On March 10, Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba met on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Turkey.

On February 24, Putin announced a special military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aims to demilitarize and de-Nazify the country.