Turkey-Russia summit cancelled

Today, Russia said a summit between President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan pencilled in for December 15 had been cancelled, with ties between the two leaders in tatters over the downing of a Russian warplane.

The meeting between the two leaders had been agreed at the G20 summit in Turkey on November 16, just over a week before Ankara shot down one of Moscow's warplanes at the Syrian border.

"It will not take place. It is not planned," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.