Russian Ukrainian war crisis: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next week with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who will visit Moscow on Monday. Guterres will also hold a meeting and lunch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, said Eri Kaneko, Associate Spokesperson for the head of the United Nations.
Russian Top Diplomats said talking to end the battle in Ukraine had a “land to stop”, because Moscow had not received a response from Kyiv to a series of recent proposals. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a press conference on Friday that “Now, they (talks) have stopped, because other proposals we forward to Ukrainian negotiators about five days ago, which are compiled with their comments account, it remains without a response.
Lavrov also collected that the latest statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelskyy and his advisor suggested” they did not need this conversation at all, they had put up their fate. “
Meanwhile, a city official in Mariupol, which was surrounded by Russian troops continued to bomb a large steel factory where Ukrainian fighters hid. Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor for Mayor Mariupol, told the Associated Press on Friday that “every day they dropped several bombs in Azovstal, despite false promises not to touch the defenders”. Andryushchenko added that “battle, shooting, bombings did not stop”.
Finance Minister Ukrainian Syliy Marchenko said on Friday that he explained the urgent need for financial support for Western countries this week, adding that Kyiv continued to serve its debt despite the Russian invasion and the collapse of income.
