Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Kyiv would quit talks with Moscow if Russia destroys Ukraine’s people in the city of Mariupol and holds “pseudo-referendums” to create “pseudo-republics” in Russian-occupied areas.

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The Ukrainian president was speaking at a news conference in Kyiv.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; writing by Tom Balmforth. Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
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