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Ukraine rejects calls to 'freeze' conflict, foreign minister saysUkrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday that talks about resolving the conflict with Russia could not start with a mere cessation of hostilities. โ€œIf anyone thinks they should freeze the conflict and then see how to solve it, they donโ€™t understand it,โ€ he said in an online briefing aimed at African journalists, following a tour of African countries. More than 100 rounds of consultation and attempts at a ceasefire since Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 only led to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he said.news.yahoo.com