Borrell called on South Africa to persuade Russia to "end the conflict in Ukraine"

Borrell stressed that South Africa is an important partner for the EU in maintaining international law and order.

“Therefore, I really hope that South Africa uses its good relations with Russia and the role that the country plays in the BRICS group to convince Russia to stop (conflict. -

),” RIA Novosti quotes him.

At the same time, Borrell added that the EU "respects the neutral position" taken by the African country.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the conditions for negotiations with Ukraine are now neither de jure nor de facto.

He noted that this is evidenced by statements from Kyiv and the legal justification of the Ukrainian authorities for the impossibility of negotiating.