MOSCOW, April 26./TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday receives at the Kremlin UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

It was reported earlier, that during his trip to Russia, the UN secretary-general plans to discuss the situation in Ukraine, focusing in particular on Mariupol and the Azovstal plant.

This meeting of the Russian president and the UN secretary-general is the first after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. The most recent face-to-face talks were in January 2020, at the international conference on Libya in Berlin. Earlier in the day, Guterres met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.