Putin indicates he will not compromise on Ukraine in meeting with US envoys

Vladimir Putin indicated on Thursday that Russia will not compromise on its hardline demands to end the Ukraine offensive but offered a short-term ceasefire in a key frontline city during a Kremlin meeting with US envoys. The Russian president said he would not water down his demands to control parts of Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed and ruled out agreeing to foreign peacekeeping troops in Ukraine – a deployment that he said would be a “continuation of war”. Washington’s envoys,...