Ramaphosa said meeting with Zelensky was constructive discussion.
Ramphosa: “This war must be settled and there should be peace through negotiations,” Ramphosa told reporters after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.”
Vladimir Putin meets with the African Delegates and says to the South African leader Ramphosa, “Welcome your balanced stance.” South Africa and Russia are BRICS members of the alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa,
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The leaders from the Comoros, Egypt, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia will travel from Kyiv to St. Petersburg this weekend. While details of the peace plan have not been made publicly available, widening access to Russian and Ukrainian grains and fertilizers to ease food insecurity in Africa is expected to be at the top of the delegation’s agenda. In the long term, the strategic nonalignment of many African countries makes them well positioned to be neutral peace brokers to the war in Ukraine, but they are constrained by their limited leverage.
Behind this peace initiative is Jean-Yves Ollivier, a French businessman and longtime peace negotiator who played an important role in resolving the South African Border War.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/zelenskyy-ukraine-russia-putin-1.6760139 In early January, Zelensky said no to peace talks until Russia leaves Ukraine territory. Speaking with African Delegates in Ukraine with the hopes of fostering peaceful resolutions between Russia and Ukraine, Zelensky reiterates his position to African Delegates long as Russian soldiers remain in Ukraine there won’t be peace talks.,
“For nearly two weeks now, the Ukrainian army’s 128th Mountain Brigade has been testing Russian defenses in and around the town of P’yatykhatky, just east of the drained Kakhovka Reservoir, which emptied five billion gallons of water into the Dnipro River watershed after someone—the Russians, apparently—blew up the adjacent dam on June 6.”
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