Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Moscow on Thursday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the wake of last week’s deadly airstrike on Turkish soldiers in Idlib and Turkey’s offensive against Syrian regime interests in Syria. In a speech on Monday, Erdoğan said he hopes to reach a ceasefire deal with Putin and “find a solution to this affair”.

A high-level American delegation headed by US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft and U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey landed in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Monday for talks on the escalation of violence in Idlib. A statement released by the US laid the blame squarely on the Assad regime , which “backed by Russia and Iran, have unleashed a brutal military campaign in Idlib”, killing hundreds of citizens and displacing millions.

Refugees have been flocking to Turkey’s border with Greece following Turkey’s announcement that it will not longer stand in the way of refugees traveling to Europe. The development has prompted Greece to close its border and asylum system and call for EU talks on refugees. Over the weekend, Turkish President Erdoğan claimed some 18,000 refugees had crossed into Greece with many more moving across Turkey, by bus, taxi and on foot to the border.

Former European Parliament Turkey Rapporteur Kati Piri on Twitter criticized the EU for not fulfilling its pledges under the 2016 EU-Turkey refugee deal. Piri noted that that visa requirements for Turkish citizens had not been lifted, the Customs Union had not been upgraded and new accession chapters had not been opened, as stipulated by the deal, while only 25,000 refugees have been resettled in the EU. On the other hand, Turkey was largely successful in stopping the flow of migrants into Europe.