Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he was ready for “constructive dialogue with those who want peace” during a meeting with African leaders on Ukraine, praising their “balanced approach.”
“We welcome the balanced approach of our African friends to the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said at the beginning of the meeting in St. Petersburg, where a delegation of African heads of state arrived after a tour in Kiev. try to mediate in resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
This weekend, the heads of four African states – Cyril Ramaphosa from South Africa, Maki Sal from Senegal, Hakainde Hichilema from Zambia and Azali Assumani from the Comoros (the current president of the African Union) – visited St. Petersburg. and Kyiv, seek meetings with Zelensky and Putin.