Are You Not Going To Show Him Getting Flustered Again?

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-news-live-new-international-coalition-to-supply-ukraine-with-weapons-to-fight-putin-for-months-or-years-12541713?postid=3801697#liveblog-body

I appreciate that battlefield diplomacy is difficult.

However as he was standing next to the nominal Commander-in-Chief of the illegal military formation.

Which is holding civilians hostage. As human shields to protect a solely military installation.

Couldn't he, at least, have asked for the hostages to be set free?

Some would suggest he should have made it a pre-condition to taking the meeting.

The good offices of the United Nations certainly can't entertain the idea of providing material support to an illegal military formation which is holding civilians hostage.