Turkish Support For Ukraine, Including Arms Sales, Tests Russia's Forbearance Towards Ankara April 26, 2021 Although Russia and Turkey have backed opposite sides in Syria and Libya and Turkey played an important role in Azerbaijan's victory over Armenia and had turned the Hagia Sophia church from a museum to a mosque, the Russian leadership was able to swallow it. [1]The friendship between Turkey's Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky that extended to the sale of Turkish attack drones to Kiev, brought tensions out into the open. Russia has been massing troops near its border wi...