Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs minister has said the Russian president thinks any negotiations with Ukraine are now “impossible” after Kyiv’s offensive.

Ukrainian forces unexpectedly breached Russian borders earlier this month and are now occupying around 1,000 sq km of land in the Kursk region.

The incursion is particularly remarkable considering Russia has not been invaded since World War 2.

Meanwhile, Russia is still occupying 109,000 sq km of Ukrainian land more than two years after invading its European neighbour in a land grab.

But Putin apparently cannot see the irony in this and is now just refusing to conduct any peace talks at all.

According to Russia’s state news agency TASS, the country’s foreign affairs minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday: “The president said it very clearly that following attacks, or even incursion, on........

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