Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a new round of US-brokered Russia-Ukraine peace talks planned for this week has been postponed due to the ongoing war in the Middle East, which has drawn international attention away from Europe`s biggest conflict since World War II

He said the war had resulted in "15,000 Ukrainian civilians killed" and condemned what he described as "violence, rape, torture, war crimes, and terror," as well as the deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children