The African delegation, which includes leaders from South Africa, Senegal, the Comoros and Egypt, was expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr and then hold talks Russian President Vladimir P…
At least two explosions rocked Kyiv on Friday and air raid sirens blared as African leaders began a peace mission, hoping to mediate between Ukraine and Russia.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin visit a site of a mass grave, in the town of Bucha, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, outside of Kyiv on June 16, 2023.A Reuters television crew saw the African leaders arriving in Kyiv in a convoy of cars and entering a hotel to use its air-raid shelter.
The document states that the objective of the mission is “to promote the importance of peace and to encourage the parties to agree to a diplomacy-led process of negotiations.” Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Egypt’s Prime Minister Mustafa Madbuly visit a site of a mass grave, in the town of Bucha, Ukraine on June 16, 2023.A cessation of hostilities agreement could follow and would need to be accompanied by negotiations between Russia and the West, the document stated.
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