Britain’s defense industry executives have traveled Kiev to discuss plans to set up joint ventures to manufacture weapons locally.

The Kremlin has dismissed a peace plan by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying proposals to end the war must take into account “today’s realities” of four Ukrainian regions that recently joined Russia.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is after a potential diplomatic settlement of the war in Ukraine.

The United States is mulling the purchase of artillery shells from South Korea to supply them to Ukraine, even though Seoul insists that its policy of not sending military aid to Ukraine remains unchanged.

Multiple explosions ripped through the Ukrainian capital Kiev in the wee hours of Monday morning, according to local officials. 

Russia and Ukraine have carried out a high-profile prisoner swap, involving almost 300 people, including 10 foreigners, marking the largest exchange since the start of the Ukrainian conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top ally, Dmitry Medvedev, says if Ukraine had been allowed to join NATO, World War Three could have begun.