Seven African leaders will meet with both Zelensky and Putin

The Brazzaville Foundation has announced that a group of seven would travel to Kiev on Friday and Moscow on Saturday.

The Brazzaville Foundation, an NGO facilitating the trip, stated on Wednesday that members of the African Peace Initiative team will go to Russia and Ukraine the next week to deliver their “road to peace” proposal to the presidents of those two nations.

On June 16, the seven-person group is expected in Kiev, where they will meet with President Vladimir Zelensky, according to the NGO. Vladimir Putin will then greet the group on June 17 in Saint Petersburg, according to the statement.

The peace initiative is being led by the heads of state of South Africa, Comoros, the Republic of Congo, Uganda, Senegal, Zambia, and Egypt.

The African leaders decided to travel to both Moscow and Kiev in the middle of June after earlier this week’s talks to discuss methods to settle the war in Ukraine. Additionally, they assigned the task of finalizing the components of the roadmap to peace to their respective foreign ministries.

In a phone call with his South African colleague, President Putin reportedly agreed to host the delegation, according to the Kremlin on Wednesday.

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In a statement released on Thursday, the South African presidency acknowledged that the Russian president “welcomed the initiative by African Heads of State and expressed his desire to receive the peace mission.”

Last month, the South African government added that Zelensky had agreed to host the leaders and had given his approval to the initiative.