Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin claims counter-offensive ‘has not made progress’ as Kim Jong-un travels for weapons talks

Putin claims Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘has not made progress’

Vladimir Putin has directly addressed the war in Ukraine during the Q&A session at the eastern economic forum in Vladivostok. He has said that the Ukrainian counter-offensive has not made any progress. He accused British secret services of being involved in training Ukrainian saboteurs to launch attacks on Russian infrastructure. He said the deployment of cluster munitions and armaments that utilise depleted uranium by Ukrainian forces is a crime. He said that he believed Ukraine would eventually seek peace talks when it was close to running out of resources.