United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced last week that he planned trips to both Moscow and Kyiv.
Some Ukrainian officials over the weekend cast doubt on the utility of Guterres' trip to meet with Putin before Ukraine. Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Guterres is “not really” authorized to speak for Ukraine in peace negotiations, and suggested the UN should focus on humanitarian support for Ukraine instead.
“Any peace talks are good if they end with the result. I really doubt if those peace talks organized by the secretary-general of the U.N. would end up with any result,” he said. Mariupol's mammoth steel plant, which has a sprawling maze of underground channels, has remained the last bulwark of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic Sea of Azov port city. Putin last week ordered Russian forces to barricade entrances to the facility rather than attempt a likely costly infiltration.
Ukrainian officials have said that up to 1,000 civilians have sheltered at the plant. They have repeatedly urged Russia to offer them a safe exit.Drone footage form Mariupol, Ukraine, shows a destroyed apartment building.
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