MOSCOW (Dispatches) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan discussed by phone on July 6 the supply of Russian S-400 systems to Turkey as a deal that is in the process of being implemented, the Kremlin said on Monday.
The United States has said that U.S. sanctions would be triggered when the Russian missile batteries arrive in NATO ally Turkey. The first of the systems that Ankara has purchased will arrive in Turkey some time this week, privately-held broadcaster Haberturk reported on Friday.
Speaking to the press in Istanbul prior to his departure for Bosnia Herzegovina, Erdogan said the S-400 missiles will be brought to Turkey by plane, as the Turkish Ministry of Defense and the General Staff are deciding on their locations.