United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres travels to Moscow today to meet at the Kremlin with Russia’s foreign minister and its president, Vladimir Putin. His trip comes as the U.N. struggles to bring humanitarian relief to civilians trapped by Russia’s assault on eastern Ukraine. Guterres will again press Russian and Ukrainian troops to silence their guns — after his previous calls for a ceasefire went unheeded. Ahead of the secretary-general’s visit to Moscow, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations said a truce was unlikely.

Dmitry Polyanskiy: “So, we don’t think that a ceasefire is a good option right now, because the only — the only advantage it will give, it will give a possibility for Ukrainian forces to regroup.”