Russia on Monday presented Ukraine with a "memorandum" setting out its conditions for a ceasefire, as well as key guidelines for a comprehensive treaty to end the conflict. It included demands that Ukraine has previously said are non-starters.

Ukraine's Zelenskyy wants face-to-face talks with Putin but the Russian leader shows no readiness - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Russia’s ceasefire proposal as “an ultimatum” and renewed his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock over the war,

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has accused the Ukrainian authorities of orchestrating recent explosions on railways in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk oblasts, describing them as planned terrorist attacks aimed at derailing the peace talks in Istanbul.