Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to deploy troops in Belarus this year and attempt to drag the country into the war. Specifically, he may threaten Poland or the Baltic countries from there, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a press conference with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

In an interview published on Tuesday, the Ukrainian president said that he would be willing to sit at the negotiating table with his Russian counterpart, if that was the only to "bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people.