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UN chief: "War will end when the Russian Federation decides to end"

28 April 2022 09:16 (UTC +04:00)

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today after he arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, APA reports citing CNN.

Guterres is fresh from his visit to Russia where he met with Vladimir Putin, later describing the face-to-face talks as “very useful.”

The secretary-general defended the role of the UN in terms of bringing an end to the two-month-old conflict but stressed the war “will not end with meetings” in an interview with CNN:

"The war will not end with meetings. The war will end when the Russian Federation decides to end it and when there is – after a ceasefire – a possibility of a serious political agreement.

We can have all the meetings but that is not what will end the war.”