South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit by Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday that peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow should start without preconditions such as Ukraine ceding land to Russia.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he spoke to US President Donald Trump about relations between the two countries and the war in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has handed over a list of 400 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Zelensky said on April 24. "Russia has abducted tens of thousands of children from the occupied territories.