Russia controls about 18% of Kyiv’s territory, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.
Russian president Vladimir Putin criticised the West’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs, depleted uranium munitions, and F-16 jets.
Putin, speaking at an economic forum in Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok, said Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces had so far failed and that the Ukrainian army had sustained heavy losses. For there to be any chance of talks, said Putin, Ukraine would first have to cancel its self-imposed legal ban on peace talks and explain what it wanted.Russia controls about 18% of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, and a swathe of eastern and southern Ukraine which it took control of in 2022.
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