The Latest Breaking News from Dmitry Peskov

It comes after reports the Chelsea FC owner has been flying between Moscow and Kyiv to relay messages between Putin and Zelensky in a bid to help with a potential peace agreement

Officials on both sides play down hopes of major breakthrough in Istanbul ceasefire negotiations

Germany’s energy minister says the Group of Seven major economies have agreed to reject Moscow’s demand to pay for energy imports from Russia in rubles

The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian investigators would look into a video circulated on social media that purported to show Ukrainian forces mistreating captured Russian soldiers.

The Kremlin said on Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden's remark that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" was a cause for alarm, a guarded response to the first public call from the United States for an end to Putin's 22-year rule.

The Kremlin said that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine may get under way in Turkey on Tuesday and it was important that they would take place face-to-face, after what it described as a lack of major progress in negotiations so far.

U-turn comes after Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson advised Biden to ‘control his temper’

The Kremlin has called Joe Biden’s recent comments on Russian President Vladimir Putin “alarming”.

Russian officials lined up to go on state TV to denounce US President Joe Biden, who said Putin was “bent on violence” and that there was “simply no justification or provocation for Russia’s choice of war” in Ukraine

Irpin's mayor said Ukrainian forces had retaken control of the city as some 170,000 civilians remained trapped in Mariupol without adequate food, water or medicine, according to Ukraine’s foreign ministry. Read about the events as they unfolded on Monday's live blog. All times indicated are Paris time [GMT+1].

The mayor of Mariupol says 160,000 civilians remain trapped, calling for the city's complete evacuation.