Ukraine war: Putin-UN chief meet in Moscow for efforts to bring peace
Hindustan TimesUnited Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres will visit Moscow on Tuesday where he will meet Russian president Vladimir Putin as part of his efforts to end the ongoing war in Ukraine, news agency Reuters reported. "Strongly urged for immediate humanitarian access and safe passage from Mariupol and other besieged cities all the more on the occasion of Orthodox Easter" this weekend, Michel said on Twitter after the call. The Kremlin has claimed the "liberation" of Mariupol, whose control is pivotal to its war plans nearly two months after Putin ordered the shock invasion of Russia's Western-leaning neighbour. “Right now, they have ground to a halt, because another proposal we passed on to Ukrainian negotiators about five days ago, which was drawn up with their comments taken into account, it remains without a response," Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference.