Ukraine said fighting had “intensified” on the eastern front as Russian President Vladimir Putin deemed Kyiv’s counteroffensive a failure.
In a televised interview broadcasted Sunday, Putin said the Ukrainian military made no progress.
In the televised interview, Putin said he “positively” assessed the course of his special military operation. Russia however says that obstacles to its own exports remain, and threatens to pull out of the grain deal over the issue.“Vladimir Putin stressed that the obligations… to remove obstacles to the export of Russian food and fertilisers still remain unfulfilled,” according to a Kremlin statement.
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