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There is no practical platform to hold a direct meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and as the conflict further continues, it will be more difficult to reach a diplomatic solution, Russian Permanent Representative in the UN Office in Geneva Gennady Gatilov said on Sunday.

There "was not any practical platform for having this meeting," Gatilov told the Financial Times newspaper.

BERLIN (Sputnik) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that Berlin has been regularly supplying Kiev with "very effective" weapons and vowed to continue the deliveries if there is no escalation.

"Germany has been supplying Ukraine with a large amount of weapons. It is important to mention, we are continuing the regular deliveries, it is a very effective armament," Scholz said during the open house day at his office in Berlin.

The top official also said that the upcoming arms deliveries will include the Cobra radar system and the IRIS-T (Infra Red Imaging System Tail/Thrust Vector-Controlled) air defense systems.

He added that Germany will assist Ukraine as long as it is necessary but "the main principle" is that there should be no escalation of the conflict.

Earlier this week, German media reported, citing Ukrainian official sources, that Ukrainian diplomats had asked Berlin several times since June to step up arms supplies but to no avail.

The Russian navy has destroyed a warehouse of missiles for US High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) in the Odessa region using Kalibr missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

"High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles have destroyed an ammunition depot with missiles for US HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and Western-made anti-aircraft systems near the village of Mayorskoye, Odessa Region," the ministry told reporters.

In addition, a strike by operational-tactical aviation of the Russian aerospace forces in the Gulyaipole area of ​​the Zaporozhye region has destroyed a fuel depot of the 102nd territorial defense brigade, which stored over 100 tonnes of diesel fuel for military equipment, the ministry said.