Russian President Vladimir Putin said that talks between Russia and Ukraine are continuing online.
At a meeting in Moscow with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Putin expressed hope that negotiations with the Ukrainian side would have a "positive outcome".
Sitting opposite Guterres at his now infamous long table in the Kremlin - where he had received Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Solts - furniture that has even raised conspiracy theories globally, Putin said efforts at talks with Ukraine had been derailed by allegations of atrocities committed by Russian forces in the town of Bukhara outside Kiev.
Observers at the time were stunned by published photos of Macron and Putin sitting on opposite sides of a 4-meter-long table to discuss the Ukrainian crisis, with some diplomats and others arguing that Putin may have wanted to send a diplomatic message.
Νωρίτερα ο Γ.Γ. UN called on Moscow and Kiev to work in coordination with the UN to open "humanitarian corridors" in Ukraine to remove civilians from areas where hostilities are raging.
For his part, Russian diplomatic chief Sergei Lavrov rejected Kiev's proposal to hold peace talks in Mariupol.
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