MOSCOW: South Africa's president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, on Saturday (Jun 17) told his Russian counterpart the fighting had to stop. His delegation put forward a set of principles that the Kremlin deemed 'very difficult to implement', a day after Ukrain
MOSCOW: South Africa's president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, on Saturday told his Russian counterpart the fighting had to stop.
Russian authorities have de-facto banned the word"war" to describe their military operation in Ukraine. The mission included the presidents of South Africa, Senegal, Comoros and Zambia; and top officials from Uganda, Egypt and Congo-Brazzaville."Any initiative is very difficult to implement," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was cited as saying by the state-run agency RIA Novosti.
Moscow has in the past repeated that any negotiations would need to take into account"new territorial realities".
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