In a press conference with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, President Putin said military action in Ukraine would continue until Russia achieved success.
The Russian president denied reports of hundreds of civilian bodies being found in the town of Bucha outside Kyiv. Ukraine has accused Russia of the genocide in Bucha, but Russia has denied these allegations and called it propaganda from Ukraine.
President Putin accused Ukraine of creating impasse in peace talks by making false claims of Russian war crimes and demanding security guarantees for Ukraine as a whole.
