Ukraine leader says world 'must compel Russia to peace'

This handout picture taken and released on February 22, 2022 by Ukrainian Presidential press-service shows the President Volodymyr Zelensky looking on during his TV speech in Kyiv.

Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that the country's allies were building a "coalition" against Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged the world to take measures to force Moscow to stop its attack.

"We are building an anti-Putin coalition," Zelensky wrote on Twitter, after talks with the leaders of the US, EU, Britain, Germany and Poland.

"The world must compel Russia to peace," he wrote.