Vladimir Putin says that the ultimate resolution of the conflict with Ukraine must be handled by Moscow and Kiev only while noting that Ukraine's current Western sponsors are complicit in international terrorism. Moscow says Vladimir Zelensky's threats to civilian infrastructure and his terrorist tactics are an attempt to draw attention away from Kiev's frontline losses. On the eve of a shooting in Kiev between Ukraine's spy agencies, one officer claims he was kidnapped by the rival department, fueling a long-standing feud between the intelligence bodies.