UN secretary-general: Putin meeting ‘very useful’

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stated in a new job 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 think it was a very useful assembly,” Guterres told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “First of all … it was achievable to inform President Putin the very same points I say in New York or I’ll be able to say below in Kyiv, which indicates that the Russian invasion is versus the charter of the United Nations, is a violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and that this war ought to close as immediately as probable.”

Guterres also said that he came absent from the assembly with Putin with an agreement “in principle” letting Ukrainian civilians to evacuate a metal plant in Mariupol.

“Let’s be apparent, President Putin agreed with me in theory that we would have — with the aid of the U.N. and the help of the Worldwide Committee of the Crimson Cross — the evacuation of those people civilians into the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government,” Guterres informed Cooper.

“We have been doing work on the information. At the current moment they are staying reviewed in Moscow involving the Ministry of Defense and our men and women.”

Guterres arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to fulfill with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his exertion to finish the ongoing conflict among the two international locations.

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

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