RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin claimed peace talks with Ukraine were at a “dead end” today, blaming what he said were “fake claims” by Kiev about war crimes.
A Ukrainian presidential spokesman said talks were ongoing, however.
The Russian leader spoke at a space centre in the country’s far east a day after the neonazi Azov Battalion, fighting in the besiged city of Mariupol, claimed its troops had been hit by a Russian chemical weapons attack.
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict



