Vladimir Putin and a team of African leaders are negotiating a potential settlement to the Ukraine-Russian conflict in St. Petersburg.
Putin reportedly told African leaders that he was willing to talking with Ukraine, according to the Reuters news agency.
On Friday, the delegation had a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine.
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Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Macky Sall of Senegal, Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia, and Azali Assoumani of Comoros, who is now in charge of the African Union, are all included in the delegation.
The peacekeeping operation was supposed to be carried out by three other African presidents, but they instead dispatched Ugandan, Egyptian, and Congolese delegates.
Sirens might be heard alerting the public to potential attacks on Friday when President Zelenskyy was meeting with a group of African leaders.
President Putin recently stated that Russia has already stationed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, serving as a warning to the West that it cannot cause Russia to suffer a strategic defeat.
Theoretically, he said, Russia might deploy nuclear weapons to defend its territorial integrity, but he stressed that his nation did not have such a necessity.