"A phone conversation is scheduled for today, and then the situation [with the African leaders' visit] will clear up," the source said, commenting on South Africa's statements about preparations for a visit by African leaders to Russia in June to discuss a peace initiative on Ukraine.
South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation Director General Zane Dangor has previously said that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and the leaders of five other African countries will visit Moscow and Kiev in early June as part of a peace initiative.
The founder of the Brazzaville Foundation and initiator of the mission, Jean-Yves Olivier, previously told Sputnik that the main goal of the mission of African countries in Ukraine is to initiate and assist in establishing a dialogue between the two countries, noting that negotiations through the mission of African countries will be held without preconditions, and the mission itself is the first of its kind that both Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to accept.