The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Friday that Britain would have to return Moscow money that London had decided to illegally gift to Ukraine to fund Kyiv's military.

In an interview on The World With Yalda Hakim, Andrei Kelin says Moscow told Washington it believes its territorial advances in Ukraine "should be recognised" as part of any peace deal.

Influential Russian parliamentarians dismissed a summit of European leaders in London on Sunday, saying it had produced no plan to settle the war in Ukraine.

The French and British are calling for a month-long truce in the war between Moscow and Kyiv, but there's no sign that the United States is ready to support it.