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Ukrainian person calls for wider planetary enactment to get Russia to negotiating array amid faltering bid efforts.
Published On 23 Aug 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called connected countries successful the Global South to enactment diplomatic efforts to propulsion Russia to hold to extremity its warfare with Ukraine.
In a societal media station pursuing talks with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa connected Saturday, Zelenskyy stressed that the struggle “must beryllium brought to an end” and that “the killings and demolition indispensable beryllium stopped”.
“I reaffirmed my readiness for immoderate format of gathering with the caput of Russia,” the Ukrainian person said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“However, we spot that Moscow is erstwhile again trying to resistance everything retired adjacent further. It is important that the Global South sends applicable signals and pushes Russia toward peace.”
The comments travel arsenic a renewed diplomatic effort, spearheaded by United States President Donald Trump with enactment from European countries, to propulsion Moscow to extremity its warfare successful Ukraine has appeared to stall.
On Friday, Trump expressed frustration with Moscow implicit the deficiency of advancement successful efforts to negociate a peaceful colony to extremity the war, contempt his caller meeting with Putin successful Alaska.
The US president renewed a menace that helium would see imposing sanctions connected Russia if determination was nary momentum wrong the adjacent 2 weeks.
Trump has been trying to put a acme betwixt Putin and Zelenskyy, which has agelong been sought by the Ukrainian leader, to sermon an extremity to the war.
But connected Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said determination were nary plans for specified a meeting.
Lavrov said successful an interrogation with NBC’s “Meet the Press” programme that Putin had made wide helium was acceptable to conscionable Zelenskyy, provided determination was a due docket for specified a session, thing the Russian overseas curate said was lacking for now.
“Putin is acceptable to conscionable with Zelenskyy erstwhile the docket would beryllium acceptable for a summit. And this docket is not acceptable astatine all,” Lavrov said.
Amid the propulsion for a diplomatic resolution, warring has continued to grind connected the battlefield.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said successful a connection connected Telegram connected Saturday that its forces successful eastbound Ukraine had taken 2 villages successful the Donetsk region, Sredneye and Kleban-Byk.
That followed the seizure of 3 different villages successful the portion a time earlier.
The seizure of Kleban-Byk would correspond further advancement towards Kostiantynivka – a cardinal municipality connected the roadworthy to Kramatorsk, wherever a large Ukrainian logistics basal is located.
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Al Jazeera and quality agencies
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