Dmitry Medvedev taunted President Donald Trump for shifting positions on the Russia-Ukraine war, likening it to a seesaw, after he directed the Pentagon to supply Kyiv with more weapons. Medvedev is deputy to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Security Council of Russia,

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russian and Ukrainian demands for peace remain “absolutely contradictory,” as recent talks failed to bring the two sides closer to a ceasefire. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators exchanged written proposals at peace talks in Istanbul earlier this month,

The Russian leader is convinced that Moscow’s battlefield superiority is growing, and that Ukraine’s defenses may collapse in the coming months, according to people close to the Kremlin.