Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv on Wednesday that there was a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations "if common sense prevails," but that he was ready to end it by force if that was the only way.

The Russian president said it would be possible to agree to an "acceptable solution" to end the war "if common sense prevails", but that it would otherwise "have to resolve all the tasks before us by force of arms".

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he reached "understandings" with US President Donald Trump over the end of the Ukraine war, at their meeting in Alaska last month. But he did not say whether he would agree to peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky brokered by Trump,