Zelenskyy from Ukraine urges the world to pressure Russia to end the war Russia-Ukraine, news war

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy The two countries in the global south have called for supporting diplomatic efforts to push Russia to agree to end its war with Ukraine.

In a publication on social media, following talks with his counterpart in South Africa, Cyril Ramavusa on Saturday, Zelinski confirmed that the conflict “must end” and that “killings and destruction must stop.”

“I have been sure of my willingness for any form of meeting with the President of Russia,” said the Ukrainian leader, referring to the Russian president. Vladimir Putin.

“However, we see that Moscow is trying again to pull everything further. It is important for the global south to send relevant signals and push Russia towards peace.

Comments come as a renewed diplomatic effort, led by US President Donald Trump with the support of European countries, to push Moscow to end its war in Ukraine.

Friday, Trump Expressed With Moscow due to the lack of progress in the efforts made to negotiate a peaceful settlement to end the war, despite its rear A meeting with Putin In Alaska.

The US President renewed a threat that he would consider imposing sanctions on Russia if there is no momentum in the next two weeks.

Trump has been trying to arrange a summit between Putin and Zellinski, which the Ukrainian leader has long sought to discuss the end of the war.

But Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that there are no plans for such a meeting.

Lavrov said in an interview with the NBC “Meet The Press” program, which Putin explained that he was ready to meet Zelinski, provided that there is a suitable agenda for such a session, which is something that the Russian Foreign Minister said was not present at the present time.

“Putin is ready to meet Zelinski when the agenda is ready for a summit. This agenda is not ready at all,” said Lavrov.

Ramavusa, President of South Africa, Vote To the calls for a meeting between Putin and Zellinski on Saturday, stressing “the holding of bilateral and bilateral meetings between the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and the United States.”

The Ramavusa office said in a statement that such talks will be “the key to referring to a fixed commitment to end the war.”

The statement added that the leader of South Africa, who currently heads the Group of Twenty, also spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and Finnish President Alexander Stop.

“President Ramavusa calls on all parties to seize this moment and preserve the momentum towards peace between Russia and Ukraine,” he said.

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Amid pressure for a diplomatic decision, fighting continued to grind in the battlefield.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement on a telegram on Saturday that its forces in eastern Ukraine took two villages in the Donetsk region, Suridni and two clip.

After that, three other villages in the area are arrested one day ago.

The seizure of Kleban-Dyk will represent more progress towards Kostiantynivka-a major city on the road to Kramatorsk, where there is a major Ukrainian logistical base.

The Ukraine army did not admit that any of the villages had changed. But she said that her forces recovered from the Russian forces a settlement west on the edge of the Dniproptrovsk area.

Separately, the mayor of Moscow said on a telegram that on Saturday, Russian air defenses shot down a drone to the Russian capital and specialists were examining shrapnel on the ground.

The country’s air transport agency said that many airports in central Russia have suspended operations due to concerns about the safe airspace.

In a series of ads for several hours, Rozavatia said that the operations were suspended at airports in Iizivsk, Nolvjorod, Samara, Penza, Tamamov, Oulianovsk, east and southeast Moscow.