La Slovakia is ready to offer a negotiating platform for the talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war and Moscow says ok. So Vladimir Putin, quoted by Tass. In recent days the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico had been received in the Kremlin. Russia seeks to end the conflict, not to freeze it, Putin said. “A ceasefire in Ukraine at this point would lead to nothing, reliable agreements are needed,” according to the Russian Foreign Minister, Serghei Lavrov, which reveals: “France offered dialogue without involving Kiev”.
Putin, here's what he said
La Russia wants to “end the conflict in Ukraine”, he doesn't want to "freeze it"“Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russian news agencies, answering a question about plans to Donald Trump to reach an agreement on a truce in Ukraine. “We are also trying to end the conflict,” he said. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also believes that the ceasefire risks being a “dead end.” According to what he told Russian media, Russia will not “be satisfied with just talking. No one is hiding the fact that the purpose of the ceasefire is to buy time to continue to flood Ukraine with weapons and enable it to reunite, mobilize, and so on,” he said. The head of Russian diplomacy calls for “final, legally binding agreements that document the conditions for ensuring Russia’s security and, of course, the legitimate interests of our neighbors, but in a manner based on international law, which will make it impossible to violate such agreements.”
Ukraine, first North Korean soldier captured
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian armed forces have captured a North Korean soldier who was fighting alongside the Russian army. South Korean intelligence reported: "As part of real-time information exchanges with the intelligence agency of an allied country, it was confirmed that a wounded North Korean soldier was captured," the agency said in a statement. According to what was reported by the agency Yonhap The captured soldier is wounded.
