Key points
- Putin promises ceasefire if Kyiv withdraws troops from occupied regions
- 'Close to the point of no return': Russian president issues ominous warning in wide-ranging attack on West countries
- President follows warning with more conciliatory remarks about need to'coexist and work together'
- Russia suffered 'astronomical' losses during Kharkiv offensive - report
- Big picture:Everything you need to know about the war right now
- Your questions answered:Are there any signs of an underground resistance in Russia?
- Live reporting by Bhvishya Pateland Mark Wyatt
US defence secretary defiant in face of Putin's peace proposals
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin says Vladimir Putin is not in a position to be telling Ukraine what it must do to achieve peace.
Mr Putin said Russia would be ready for peace talks "tomorrow" if Ukraine agreed to his demands.
Those include the immediate withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the assurance that Ukraine will give up on its plans to join NATO.
Mr Austin argued that Putin could end the war today if he wants to and called on the Russian president to withdraw his troops from Ukrainian territory.
"He is not in any position to dictate to Ukraine what theymust do to bring about peace," Mr Austin told reporters at NATOheadquarters in Brussels.
Turkey will tell Ukraine summit Moscow should be there - report
Turkey will tell leaders at this weekend's peace summit in Switzerland that a meeting with both Kyiv and Moscow present will yield more results, a Turkish diplomatic source has said.
Foreign minister Hakan Fidan will join world leaders at the summit, to which Russia is not invited, to reportedly reiterate Turkey's call for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
NATO ally Turkey has sought to maintain good ties with both Kyiv and Moscow during the war, offering to host peace talks or mediate.
"(Fidan) will point out that a summit that all sides attend has a higher probability of yielding results," the source told Reuters.
Turkey supports Ukraine's territorial integrity and provides it with military support, but also opposes Western sanctions on Moscow.
Finland suspects four Russian military planes of violating its airspace
Finland suspects that four Russian military planes violated the country's airspace this month, the Finnish Border Guard has said.
On Monday, the Finnish defence ministry said it suspected a single Russian military plane of violating the airspace above the Gulf of Finland for about two minutes.
But the border guard agency has now said: "As the investigation progresses, it has become apparent that in addition to the one Russian plane reported earlier, there is also reason to suspect three other planes of territorial infringement."
The four aircraft were believed to be two bombers and two fighter jets, reaching some 1.6 miles into Finnish airspace near the city of Loviisa.
"Of course, if these kinds of airspace violations happen, and if they are deliberate and serious, we react to them but the investigation is ongoing and the Border Guard is in charge of it," Finland's chief of defence Janne Jaakkola told Reuters.
Putin has no real desire to end the war - Zelenskyy adviser
The peace terms offered to Ukraine by Vladimir Putin today are a "complete sham", according to one of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's advisers.
The Russian president said his country would be ready for peace talks "tomorrow" if Ukrainian troops withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions and if Ukraine gave up its plans to join NATO.
Mykhailo Podolyak said Mr Putin's comments showed "no novelty... no real peace proposals and no desire to end the war".
"But there is a desire not to pay for this war and to continue it in new formats," he wrote on X.
"It's all a complete sham. Therefore - once again - get rid of illusions and stop taking seriously the 'proposals of Russia' that are offensive to common sense."
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to liberate all occupied regions from Russian control - and himself said all Russian forces must leave Ukraine as a condition for any peace deal.
North Korea sends Russia containers that could hold five million artillery shells
North Korea has sent containers to Russia that could hold nearly five million artillery shells, South Korea's defence minister has said.
Speaking to Bloomberg News, Shin Wosnik said that Seoul had detected at least 10,000 shipping containers on their way to Russia.
In return, Russia has reportedly sent North Korea technology to help in its plans to destroy spy satellites as well as conventional arms.
"Putin is expected to seek closer security cooperation with North Korea, especially military supplies such as artillery shells that are necessary to seize a chance to win," Shin said.
Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Pyongyang in the coming days to meet Kim Jong-un.
The North Korean leader visited Russia last September and is believed to have agreed a deal with Mr Putin that saw Moscow receive armaments in return for technological support for North Korea's space programme.
In pictures: Ukrainian troops conduct military drills in Donetsk region
Ukrainian troops have been attending military drills near the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region.
In 2014, Russian-backed fighters seized large swathes of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions and much of the fighting is now concentrated there.
Ukrainian troops are making a major effort to end a battlefield stalemate and break through Russian defensive lines in the region.
Putin promises ceasefire if Kyiv withdraws troops from occupied regions
Vladimir Putin has set out what he said were Russia's preconditions for starting peace talks with Ukraine.
He said Russia would be ready for such talks "tomorrow" if Ukrainian troops withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions and if Ukraine gave up its plans to join NATO.
If Ukraine agreed to those conditions, he said Russia would cease fire and start negotiations.
"Conditions are very simple," he said.
He continued: "As soon as Kyiv says they're ready for such a decision and start the real withdrawal of forces from these regions and officially declare rejection of plans to join NATO, from our side, immediately, literally the same minute, will come an order to stop the fire and start negotiations.
"We will do it immediately. Obviously, we will guarantee the uninterrupted and safe withdrawal of Ukrainian forces."
It should be noted that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to liberate all occupied regions from Russian control - and himself said all Russian forces must leave Ukraine as a condition for any peace deal.
Mr Putin has also said that his army's advance towards the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in 2022 was aimed at forcing Ukraine to agree to a peace deal.
He claimed there was no intention of storming Kyiv.
'We will have to coexist and work together': Putin follows warning with more conciliatory remarks
More now from Vladimir Putin's speech, which also included a slightly more conciliatory passage, in which he said the Westneeded to find a way to work with Russia.
In his address at Russia's foreign ministry, he said the "Western model" of global security was collapsing, and it was time to create a new and more stable system in its place.
"Obviously, we are witnessing the collapse of the Euro-Atlantic security system. Today it simply does not exist, it needs to be essentially created anew," he said.
"All this requires us, together with our partners, with all interested countries, and there are many of them, to work out our own options for ensuring security in Eurasia, proposing them then for wider international discussion."
The president said it was time to discuss a new system of security in Europe and Eurasia, and Russia was open to discussion on that with everyone, including NATO.
"It is important to proceed from the fact that the future security architecture is open to all Eurasian countries that wish to take part in its creation. 'To all' means European and NATO countries too, of course," he said.
"We live on the same continent. No matter what happens, you cannot change the geography. We will have to coexist and work together one way or another."
'Close to the point of no return': Putin issues ominous warning in attack on West
The "selfishness and hypocrisy of Western countries" has led to a "dangerous turn of events" and we have "come close to a point of no return", Vladimir Putin has said.
Speaking at a meeting with Russian foreign ministry officials, the Kremlin leader issued the ominous warning as he accused Washington of undermining global security because of its exit from arms pacts.
He also said the West's theft of Russian assets would "not remain unpunished".
"Washington has unilaterally withdrawn from various arms control treaties," he said.
"The selfishness and arrogance of Western states has led to the current extremely dangerous state of affairs.
"We have come unacceptably close to the point of no return.
"Calls to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, which has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons, demonstrate the extreme adventurism of Western politicians.
"They either do not understand the scale of the threat that they themselves create, or are simply obsessed with the belief in their own impunity and in their own exclusivity.
"Both of these can result in tragedy."
In 2019, theUS formally withdrew from a key nuclear treaty with Russia.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by former US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 and banned missiles with ranges between 310 to 3,400 miles.
But the US pulled out of it, claiming it undermined its national security interests.
And then in 2023, Russia suspended itsparticipation in the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the US, which caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the US and Russia can deploy.
Russian attacks killed one person and injured 20 more in last 24 hours
Russian attacks on Ukraine killed one person and injured 20 more over the past day, regional authorities say.
A total of 10 areas were targeted - Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kherson, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Donetsk.
Russian attacks caused the death of one person in Kherson, where nine houses, a car and a cultural institution were all damaged, according to governor Oleksandr Prokudin.
Another man was injured and taken to hospital following an air strike on the village of Buhaivka.
In Kharkiv, a Russian drone strike damaged a bus carrying 15 civilians, also striking two cars, a cafe and a residential building, according to governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Six people, including a three-year-old girl, were injured during an attack on the town of Novomoskovsk. The attack also damaged 91 houses, five schools and a gas infrastructure facility.
Local authorities in the Esman community of Sumy reported that a Russian drone struck a bus carrying 20 people. Three women were injured and received medical care according to preliminary information.
A Russian aerial bomb attack on a residential area in Selydove injured at least six people aged between 62 and 93, the prosecutor general's office reported.
The attack damaged at least 10 high-rise buildings, a house, shop, cafe and a pharmacy.
