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Kyiv accuses Brazilian president’s initiative for giving equal weight to ‘the victim and the aggressor’.

President Zelenskiy urged NATO leaders to extend “effective security guarantees for Ukraine” ahead of the NATO summit in Vilnius in July, “even before we join the alliance.”

Brazilian President Lula told reporters in Beijing: “The United States needs to stop encouraging war and start talking about peace; the European Union needs to start talking about peace so that we can convince Putin and Zelensky that peace is in the interest of everyone and that war is only interesting, for now, to the two of them.”

Russia on Thursday said there would be no extension of the UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal beyond May 18 unless the West removed a series of obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertiliser.

Beijing’s “top priority” is to push for ceasefire and end the war in Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping told EU Commission Chief Ursula Von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron during their meeting Thursday.

A top Ukrainian official on Sunday outlined a series of steps the government in Kyiv would take after the country reclaims control of Crimea, including dismantling the strategic bridge that links the seized Black Sea peninsula to Russia.

Russia wants to create demilitarised buffer zones inside Ukraine around areas it has annexed, an ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, saying it might be necessary to push deeper into Ukraine if such zones cannot be set up.

Russia and China issued a joint statement on Thursday following talks between presidents Putin and Jinping. Here is what it says about Ukraine.