A mother and daughter in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv
(Picture: AP)Vladimir Putin has been accused of “military, diplomatic and KGB games” with a pledge to de-escalate his war near Kyiv as part of peace moves — as some Russian units were being forced to return to Belarus because they have lost so many soldiers.
Britain issued a strong warning not to “trust what is coming out of the mouth of Putin’s war machine” after Russian deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin said the Kremlin had decided to “radically reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions” to boost trust at peace talks towards reaching an agreement to end the conflict.
