African leaders hold first-of-its-kind peace talks with Russia’s Putin aimed at ending war with Ukraine.

The leaders of seven African nations hoping for an end to the war in Ukraine traveled to Russia Saturday to hold peace talks with Vladimir Putin but received a largely negative response.

“This conflict is affecting Africa negatively,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a press conference alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and four other African leaders after their closed-door talks Friday. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa also attended the meeting and said the path to peace in Ukraine will be difficult.Saturday, after presentations from the Comoran, Senegalese and South African leaders on the group’s 10-point peace plan, and before the other delegations made their prepared comments, Putin interrupted to challenge the assumptions of the plan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his frustration with the African delegation’s plans to visit Russia.Russia is “open to constructive dialogue with anyone who wants to establish peace on the principles of fairness and acknowledgment of the legitimate interests of the parties,” Putin said.

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African leaders visit Russia to discuss their peace plan with Putin, after Ukraine tripRussian President Vladimir Putin is set to host a group of African leaders who have traveled to Russia on a self-styled “peace mission” following a trip to Ukraine. Seven African leaders — presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, as well as Egypt’s prime minister and top envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda — visited Ukraine on Friday to try to help end their nearly 16-month-old war. The African leaders traveled to St. Petersburg Saturday to meet with Putin who attended a business forum in Russia’s second-largest city. The mission to Ukraine, the first of its kind by African leaders, comes in the wake of other peace initiatives such as one by China.
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