Western sanctions will never make Russia change its position on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that while direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv had begun, there were no plans for talks between the two countries' presidents.
Peskov dismissed allegations of Russian strikes on civilian targets and the use of cluster bombs and vacuum bombs as fakes.
He declined to give an assessment of the military situation on the ground on the sixth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which the Kremlin describes as special operation to demilitarise and "denazify" the country.
Peskov declined to comment on whether the Kremlin considers the capital Kyiv to be under the control of Nazis, referring the question to the Russian military.
(Reporting by Moscow bureau)
