(AFP Photo)KYIV: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Saturday that only a diplomatic breakthrough rather than an outright military victory could end Russia's war on his country, as Moscow cut gas supplies to Finland. 'It will be bloody'Against this backdrop, Zelensky told Ukrainian television the war would end "through diplomacy". The conflict, he warned, "will be bloody, there will be fighting but will only definitively end through diplomacy". Russian energy giant Gazprom said it had halted supplies to neighbouring Finland as it had not received ruble payments from Finland's state-owned energy company Gasum by the end of Friday. Biden has cast the Ukraine war as part of a US-led struggle pitting democracy against authoritarianism.

Source: Bangkok Post May 21, 2022 17:25 UTC