US-Ukraine draft could lay groundwork for future peace deal, Putin says

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said a US-Ukraine draft discussed in Geneva could serve as the basis for a future peace deal, noting that Washington had taken Russia’s positions into account but that key points still required negotiation. Earlier, Russian agencies said air defences shot down 118 Ukrainian drones overnight, 52 of them over the border region of Belgorod. Read our liveblog to see how the day's events unfolded.