Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to deploy troops in Belarus this year and attempt to drag the country into the war. Specifically, he may threaten Poland or the Baltic countries from there, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a press conference with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

Zelenskyy said in the interview that the Russia-Ukraine war has killed 5,100 people and injured 390,000 others and estimated that Moscow’s losses stood at 350,000 dead with “many” Russians missing in

The think tank said that Russia is planning on making incremental gains along the front over the next nine months.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his readiness to engage in direct negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the ongoing conflict. He emphasized that such talks should include the United States,

That will take some doing. Putin remains uninterested in peace talks as long as Russian troops continue to gain ground in Ukraine’s east, albeit at a slow pace, and while Ukrainian forces hold seized territory in the Kursk region inside Russia, according to John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and other former officials.

President Donald Trump says his administration has already had “very serious” discussions with Russia about its war in Ukraine and that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin could soon take “significant” action toward ending the grinding conflict.