Overview

• Russia’s chief negotiator suggested a limited two-to-three-day ceasefire in select front-line sectors to allow commanders to recover fallen soldiers’ bodies.
• Ukraine’s delegation refused the short truce, demanding an unconditional and wider halt to hostilities before pausing the war.
• Negotiators agreed to prepare a fresh prisoner exchange and to transfer the remains of about 6,000 soldiers killed in action.
• Kyiv presented Moscow with a list of deported Ukrainian children, seeking their return under humanitarian terms.
• Ukraine’s defence minister proposed reconvening talks between June 20 and 30, aiming to secure a direct summit between Presidents Zelenskyy and Putin.