Kyiv to quit talks if its soldiers killed in Mariupol: Zelensky

Kyiv will pull out of talks with Moscow if Ukrainian infantrymen holed up at a sizeable steelworks in Mariupol are killed by Russian troops, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday.

“If our men are killed in Mariupol and if those pseudo-referendums are prepared in the (southern) region of Kherson, then Ukraine will withdraw from any negotiation method,” Zelensky informed a news convention in Kyiv.