Zelenskyy thanks Qatar for function in returning Ukraine kids on Doha go to | Russia-Ukraine conflict Information

Ukrainian president thanks Qatar for its function in returning kids ‘forcibly deported’ by Russia through the conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani throughout a go to to the Gulf nation, voicing gratitude for Doha’s assist for Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

The Ukrainian president’s journey on Wednesday comes as Kyiv pushes to rally international assist to fend off the continuing Russian invasion.

Zelenskyy lauded Qatar’s function in “in returning kids forcibly deported” by Russia. “We agreed to proceed our cooperation on this space,” he stated in a social media put up.

Kyiv has accused Moscow of seizing hundreds of Ukrainian kids and youngsters and taking them to Russia for the reason that starting of the conflict in February 2022.

Russia denies the allegation and says it moved the youngsters from preventing zones out of concern for his or her security.

In Qatar, I met with @TamimBinHamad. I recognize Qatar’s assist for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in addition to all key UN resolutions condemning Russian aggression.

It is vital that Qatar helps the Peace Formulation. We talked about preparations for the… pic.twitter.com/0ZvcPcgLnA

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 5, 2024

In March 2023, the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the alleged “conflict crime of illegal deportation of inhabitants (kids)” from Ukrainian-occupied areas to Russia.

Qatar has helped dealer offers to reunite some Ukrainian kids with their households, together with 16 in April and 6 final month.

Qatar’s Amiri Diwan stated on Wednesday that Sheikh Tamim mentioned the most recent developments with Zelenskyy, together with the “worldwide neighborhood’s efforts to finish the preventing and defend civilians and holding all communications channels open to unravel the disaster by way of dialogue”.

It added that the 2 leaders additionally talked about problems with “mutual significance” for the 2 international locations.

Zelenskyy is about to fulfill US President Joe Biden in Normandy, France this week, forward of a global summit on resolving the conflict in Ukraine that may happen in Switzerland later this month.

“Whereas [Biden] is in Normandy, he’ll have the chance to sit down down with President Zelenskyy and have an engagement with him to speak in regards to the state of play in Ukraine and the way we are able to proceed and deepen our assist for Ukraine,” US Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan stated on Tuesday.

Russia launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Ukrainian forces stopped Russia’s advance on Kyiv early within the conflict and pushed again the Kremlin’s troops in some areas. However the battle slowly become a protracted conflict with a lot of the preventing happening in jap Ukraine.

A Ukrainian counteroffensive final yr did not make important territorial good points for the nation. In current weeks, Russia has renewed assaults on the town of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.

Final week, a number of Western international locations, together with the US, stated they gave Kyiv the inexperienced gentle to make use of Western-donated weapons to assault targets inside Russia to assist defend Kharkiv.