Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin open to peace talks in Slovakia as reports claim North Korean soldier captured
Russian president Vladimir Putin said he would be open to peace talks with Ukraine in Slovakia “if it comes to that”.
Mr Putin said Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico, who visited Moscow this week, had offered his country as a location for negotiations as the war in Ukraine neared the three-year mark.
“We are not opposed, if it comes to that. Why not? Since Slovakia takes such a neutral position,” Mr Putin said, adding that he was resolved to end the conflict in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, South Korean intelligence claimed that Ukraine had, for the first time, captured a wounded North Korean soldier fighting for Russia, broadcaster YTN reported.
South Korea, Ukraine and the US previously accused Pyongyang of sending thousands of soldiers to help Russia fight off the Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk border region.
Russia earlier claimed that it had foiled several Ukrainian plots to assassinate senior officers and their families using bombs disguised as power banks or document folders.
