Turkey's foreign minister will reiterate at Sunday's meeting of European leaders in London an offer from Ankara to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Saturday.

Turkey is open to providing security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a final deal with Russia to end the war, the Turkish foreign minister said on Monday during a press briefing with his Russian counterpart.

Yes, the Russians have knocked out or captured at least seven of the howitzers, but there are plenty of additional guns in storage to make good these losses. No, they withdraw because stocks of their 230-pound shells run low

Akel and government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis were on Saturday engaged in a running battle of press releases denouncing one another, with seven statements flying back and forth, and opposing each other’s positions on the European Union’s plans to boost its military defences.

Alberta is weighing a plan to ship hundreds of pallets of children’s medicine it imported from Turkey to Ukraine, offloading the drugs that were part of a $70-million deal that is under scrutiny, according to government briefing notes obtained by The Globe and Mail.

The European Union spent $23 billion on Russian oil and gas last year while only offering Ukraine $19.6 billion in military aid to fend off Russia's invasion.