In further remarks to Sky News, the UK’s former representative to Nato, Sir Adam Thomson, said that Mr Zelensky was merely suggesting “agreement to disagree over who owns a chunk of Ukraine currently owned by Russia”, with Moscow being given merely “a de facto control that could change at some future stage through diplomacy”.

A senior Russian diplomat has suggested that Moscow is open to conducting nuclear missile tests for the first time since 1990. Elsewhere, Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed a potential ceasefire deal in an exclusive interview with Sky News - watch the full version below.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would use all weapons at its disposal against Ukraine if Kyiv were to acquire nuclear arms. The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested U.