and russian soldiers have been reduced to propaganda missions, spreading pro—moscow messages. it is difficult to verify these claims. what it tells us is ukraine outwardly is wanting to portray confidence in this war. there were more peace talks yesterday between negotiators from ukraine and russia and going into them, expectations were always low. russia seems to have almost increased its demands since before the invasion, saying it wants it written into ukraine law it will neverjoin nato, as well as it to formally recognise crimea as part of russia and the occupied eastern territories to be recognised. russia's demands have gone up and ukraine's demands have always been for russian troops to pull out and we know the opposite has happened. where there has been agreement we are told is a long humanitarian