Russia sent to Ukraine some of its dead troops in a prisoner and body exchange to hide Moscow's true battlefield losses, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president said that Vladimir Putin was using the return of war dead to obscure the scale of military losses from the Russian public.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he's open to meeting Ukraine's Zelensky — but only in the “final phase” of talks. Zelensky, after a missile killed 28 in the capital, urged the world to increase pressure on Moscow,

Russian President Vladimir Putin said 'all of Ukraine' belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly bullish official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine.