- 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 New: Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected the idea of creating "gray zones" as part of a future settlement with Ukraine, saying that Moscow only recognizes the country's border as a legitimate dividing line.
"For Russia, the only dividing line is the country's border."
Putin argued that unresolved territorial arrangements or buffer zones would perpetuate disputes and undermine the possibility of sustainable peace.