Putin says peace talks at 'dead end, the war will “continue until its full completion and the fulfillment of the tasks that have been set,&

Russia's audacious invasion of Ukraine is proceeding as planned and peace talks have reached a "dead end," Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

Putin, speaking at a joint press conference with ally Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused Ukraine of violating agreements made during talks in Istanbul. He once again dismissed images of bodies strewn in Bucha and other cities as staged by Ukraine and said Russia's total focus is on supporting separatists in the eastern Donbas region.

The war will “continue until its full completion and the fulfillment of the tasks that have been set," Putin said. He said Russian was forced to invade Ukraine to protect ethnic Russians in the separatists state of the Donbas region.



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