Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to Pretoria on Thursday for a meeting with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa. While the visit was cut short when a Russian strike on Kyiv killed 12 people, prompting Zelensky to return to Ukraine, the meeting saw a notable shift in Pretoria's stance on the Russian invasion.
"I am cancelling part of the programme for this visit and will return to Ukraine immediately after the meeting with the president of South Africa," Zelensky wrote on social media, having arrived in the country a few hours earlier.
