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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he plans to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the country’s cease-fire proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, saying such a meeting would be "important for world security."
Western leaders and high-level diplomats called for peace but argued over how to achieve it at a special session of the UN Security Council on February 24, the first anniversary of the launch of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
G20 finance chiefs have been unable to reach a consensus on describing the war in Ukraine and are likely to end a meeting in India on February 25 without a joint communique, delegates said.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on February 25 that Germany wants to get India to support, or at least not block, Western efforts to isolate Russia for waging a devastating war against Ukraine.
Supplies of Russian oil to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline have halted, according to the chief executive officer of the PKN Orlen oil refiner and petrol retailer.