Ukraine is preparing for peace talks with Russia as there is “no way to win on the battlefield alone”, Kyiv’s deputy spy chief has said.

Russia said on Thursday it saw no point in a conference being planned by Switzerland in mid-June to discuss how to end the Ukraine conflict and to which Moscow is not currently invited. The Swiss government said on Thursday that "at this stage" Russia is not among the dozens of countries invited,

Switzerland has invited more than 160 delegations to next month's Ukraine peace conference, the foreign ministry said Thursday, though Russia is not among them "at this stage"."Russia has not been invited at this stage,

A senior Ukrainian intelligence official has spoken out on the inevitability of talks with Russia to end their ongoing conflict, despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's previous refusal to engage in negotiations with the Kremlin.

Ukraine will at some point have to enter into talks with Russia to bring an end to their more than two-year-old war, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said in an interview published on Thursday.

General Vadym Skibitsky, mentioned that ending the war with Russia might require more than just battlefield victories, suggesting that negotiations with the aggressor could become necessary. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has consistently dismissed the idea of talks with the