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Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Commander of the Armed Forces, stressed the need for a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis, in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
Sheikh Mohamed said the UAE would use its contacts and relationships with various sides to help reach a political solution.
A statement from state news agency Wam said that Sheikh Mohamed’s phone call with Mr Putin came as part of a series of calls and discussions that the Crown Prince is having, and that included British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Wam said Sheikh Mohamed stressed the need for a "peaceful solution to the crisis in a way that guarantees the interests and national security of all parties"
"His Highness stressed the need to continue contact and serious consultations to resolve the crisis and reach a political settlement to achieve global peace and security," it read.
Sheikh Mohamed and Mr Putin also spoke of the need to maintain the stability of global energy markets.
The two leaders also spoke “in light of the Russian cooperation with the OPEC+ group of oil producing nations”, according to Wam.
Ukraine war sparks refugee crisis in Europe: in pictures
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Helena, right, and her brother Bodia, from Lviv, wait at the Medyka border crossing in eastern Poland. AFP -
A brother and sister share a bowl of soup after they and their mother fled the Russian invasion of Ukraine and crossed the border at Medyka, Poland. Reuters -
Nadia, a Ukrainian woman, walks around with her baby in a car park in Przemysl, Poland as she waits for help with transport and accommodation. Reuters -
A woman searches through donated clothes for useful items after she and her children fled the Russian invasion in Ukraine and crossed the border in Medyka, Poland. Reuters -
Oksana, 30, holds a seven-day-old child after arriving by bus at a rendezvous point organised to help Ukrainian refugees with accommodation and transport to different cities in Poland. Reuters -
Refugees wait for help in Przemysl, Poland. Reuters -
People wait in a Polish car park to help refugees arriving from Ukraine. Reuters -
A father kisses his daughter after she, her mother and grandmother fled from the Russian invasion in Ukraine and crossed the border in Medyka, Poland. Reuters -
Refugees wait for help in Przemysl, Poland. Reuters -
Ukrainian refugees in the town of Maroz near Olsztyn, Poland. EPA -
A Ukrainian refugee in the town of Maroz, Poland. EPA -
Ukrainian refugees in the town of Maroz, northern Poland. EPA -
Hospital employees and volunteers make hundreds of beds to prepare for an influx of Ukrainian refugees in Rzeszow, Poland. AP -
Ukrainian refugees who arrived by evening train from Kiev to Warsaw are helped at the Warszawa Wschodnia railway station in the Polish capital. EPA -
Ukrainian refugees arrive by train from Kiev at the Warszawa Wschodnia station in Warsaw. EPA -
Ukrainian refugees arrive by train from Kiev to Warsaw, Poland. EPA -
Ukrainian refugees arrive from the Medyka border crossing in eastern Poland. AFP -
A man hugs a child at the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka, Poland. Getty
