Ukraine-Russia war live: Zelensky responds to Trump’s ‘peace deal’ as UK issues warning over Putin’s lies

Volodymyr Zelensky has slated Donald Trump’s reported idea of giving up swathes of territory to Russia, branding it “primitive”.

The US presidential candidate is said to have suggested Kyiv cede Crimea and the Donbas to Vladimir Putin to end the war.

But the Ukrainian president said such a deal would pave the way for more Russian conquest.

“If the deal is that we just give up our territories, and that’s the idea behind it, then it’s a very primitive idea,” Mr Zelensky told Politico.

“I don’t need a fantastic idea, I need a real idea, because people’s lives are at stake.”

Meanwhile, UK foreign secretary Lord Cameron urged US politicians not to be taken in by propaganda from Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

“Don’t listen to Putin’s lies about Ukraine. It is a free democracy that wants to be an independent sovereign country, that wants to be our ally and our friend,” he said.

Kyiv downed dozens of Russian drones, and two guided missiles targeting Odesa and Mykolaiv were destroyed.

But Ukraine has also denied claims by Moscow it was behind drone strikes on Europe’s largest nuclear plant, at Zaporizhzhia.

Ukrainian officials say Moscow is behind the ‘provocation’ – while the Kremlin has tried to blame Kyiv

The last time Vladimir Kara-Murza – Russia’s most prominent opposition leader after the death of Alexei Navalny – was allowed to speak to his family, his wife Evgenia declined the opportunity. It had been months since they last spoke.

Kara-Murza, who faces 25 years in a remote penal colony for speaking out against Vladimir Putin, the longest sentence handed to a Kremlin critic since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was only allowed to use the phone for 15 minutes.

Tom Watling reports on his ordeal:

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