Russia-Ukraine live news: Russian diplomat rules out peace deal

The struggle in Ukraine has flattened cities and cities, killed hundreds of individuals and compelled thousands and thousands of others to flee the nation [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

• A Russian official has dominated out the opportunity of a diplomatic answer to finish the struggle in Ukraine within the close to future.
• Ukrainian officers report injury from artillery and rocket assaults within the jap Bakhmut area, in addition to assaults on Nikopol, close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and the southern metropolis of Mykolaiv.