UN secretary-general: Putin meeting ‘very useful’

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres claimed in a new interview that his assembly with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow this week was “very useful” as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stretches into its 3rd thirty day period.

“I imagine it was a very useful conference,” Guterres advised CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “First of all … it was attainable to inform President Putin the exact same points I say in New York or I’ll be in a position to say listed here in Kyiv, which implies that the Russian invasion is against the charter of the United Nations, is a violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and that this war should conclude as swiftly as attainable.”

Guterres also reported that he came away from the assembly with Putin with an arrangement “in principle” making it possible for Ukrainian civilians to evacuate a steel plant in Mariupol.

“Let’s be very clear, President Putin agreed with me in theory that we would have — with the assistance of the U.N. and the assist of the Global Committee of the Red Cross — the evacuation of these civilians into the territory controlled by the Ukrainian govt,” Guterres advised Cooper.

“We have been operating on the information. At the current moment they are currently being talked over in Moscow concerning the Ministry of Protection and our individuals.”

Guterres arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to meet up with with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his effort to finish the ongoing conflict involving the two international locations.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which commenced on Feb. 24, has killed 1000’s on the two sides and compelled about 5.3 million refugees to flee Ukraine.

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