Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that peace talks with Russia at a high risk of ending given the action of Russian troops during the war, reported Russian state-run news agency Interfax reported according to Reuters.  

Seperately, a Pentagon spokesperson said that it is hard to look at what Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine and think that any ethical, moral person could justify such actions. The Pentagon spokesperson added that Russian operations in Ukraine are brutality of the coldest and most depraved sort.