Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. Before we get into today's updates, let's recap what happened in the past 24 hours. In the early hours of yesterday ...

Putin has also not limited himself on the battlefield as his armies make gains in Kursk. A prisoner swap was confirmed to happen on Wednesday, with a 175-for-175 exchange between Russia and Ukraine.

Putin claimed on Thursday that Ukrainian troops are "surrounded" in Russia's Kursk region. Trump has since repeated these claims and suggested that Ukrainian soldiers were in "grave danger" in a ...