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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has rejected hopes of an early end to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “I believe that peace negotiations are unfortunately not possible at the moment. Both sides are convinced that they can win,” Guterres told the Spanish newspaper El País (Tuesday). Russia is “not ready at the moment to withdraw from the occupied territories”. “And I believe that Ukraine has hopes of recapturing them.” However, he described the probability of a nuclear weapons use as “very low”. “The Chinese initiative was very important in emphasizing that nuclear escalation is unacceptable.”

Since it is currently not possible to start peace talks, the focus is on “holding a dialogue with both sides to solve specific problems”. They are working intensively these days to extend the grain deal, which runs until May 18th. To this end, “a meeting of the four parties (Russia, Ukraine, the UN and Turkey) in Istanbul is being prepared,” said the former Prime Minister of Portugal.

In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, the adviser in the presidential office, Mykhailo Podoliak, expressed surprise at the statements. According to him, according to the UN charter, peace can be achieved by withdrawing Russian troops from Ukrainian territory. At the same time, the 51-year-old called for Russia to be excluded from the Security Council and the United Nations.