Russia still sees no grounds for peace talks with Ukraine, according to the Kremlin's spokesman.

Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that at the moment there was no sign of any of the prerequisites for such talks being in place, Reuters news agency reports.

Moscow had said in the past that any peace talks must take account of the "new realities" - a reference to four Ukrainian regions which Russia has claimed - something Ukraine and the West reject. Kyiv has said it will not negotiate with Moscow until the last Russian soldier has left Ukraine.

Peskov also said President Vladimir Putin will address members of Russian military units and other forces who helped to uphold order during Saturday's mutiny by the Wagner group, later today.

The BBC’s analysis editor Ros Atkins has looked at the consequences of the failed Wagner mutiny - for Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, the Wagner Group, Russia’s military leaders, and for the war in Ukraine.

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Disbandment of Wagner group could be under waypublished at 10:23 British Summer Time 27 June 2023

10:23 BST 27 June 2023

Sarah Rainsford
BBC Eastern Europe Correspondent

The terms of the deal done to end the Wagner mutiny are now emerging and it looks the mercenary group is being disbanded.

Russia’s defence ministry says preparations are under way for Wagner heavy weapons and hardware to be handed over.

Vladimir Putin says the group’s fighters can either join the regular army, go home or head for Belarus, where a private jet, linked to Wagner’s leader Yegeny Prigozhin landed this morning. It’s not clear yet whether he was on board.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Security Service, the FSB, has said that those who were part of the insurrection will not face prosecution. The case has been closed.

That is staggering, in a country where opposition activists are serving long prison sentences just for speaking out against the war on Ukraine.

Yevgeny Prigozhin and the armed men who took over a Russian city, marched on Moscow and shot down military helicopters and a plane on their way are to be allowed to go free.

Looking away from the Wagner episode for a moment, Switzerland’s intelligence agency warns that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made Switzerland a hub for Russian espionage.

Christian Dussey, head of the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), says that of the roughly 220 accredited Russian diplomats, either in Bern or the Russian mission to the UN in Geneva, “at least a third” are actually spies.

“Russia has destroyed the rules-based order for peace in Europe,” the FIS says in its annual report.

Sarah Rainsford
BBC Eastern Europe Correspondent

Russia’s defence ministry says preparations are under way for Wagner to hand over its military hardware.

This follows Vladimir Putin’s confirmation that Wagner members, who he said were mostly true patriots who had been misled into a criminal adventure, could choose to join the regular military, return to their families, or go to Belarus.

At the same time, as we've reported it was also announced that the FSB was dropping all criminal charges against those who participated in the mutiny, who had been facing prosecution for armed insurrection.

Belarusian leader Aleksander Lukashenko also says it was “painful to watch” the events that took place in Russia over the weekend, a reference to the short-lived mutiny.

“Many Belarusians also took them to heart, because the fatherland is one,” he says.

The authoritarian leader, who has been in power since 1994, is regarded as President Putin's closest ally.

We're now hearing from Belarusian leader Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been issuing remarks in Minsk about recent events in Russia.

Lukashenko said he had ordered his army to be "combat ready" during the rebellion from Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

In comments delivered by state media, he said that the army, police and special forces, were put on "full combat readiness" as the mutiny unfolded.

All three main Russian news agencies, quoting the FSB security service, say the criminal case against Wagner mutineers has been closed.

The Reuters news agency, quotes Russian outlet RIA as saying, the case was dropped because "the participants had ceased actions directly aimed at committing the crime".

Plane linked to Wagner boss lands in Belaruspublished at 09:17 British Summer Time 27 June 2023

09:17 BST 27 June 2023

A plane linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin - the boss of the Wagner mercenary group which staged Saturday's mutiny - has landed in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

BBC Verify has been monitoring a flight-tracking website, external which shows that a private jet, an Embraer Legacy 600, landed at the Machulishchy airbase near Minsk at 04:37 GMT.

We can't confirm from this information whether Prigozhin was on board.

The aircraft has been registered to a company called Autolex Transport LTD.

The US Department of the Treasury has linked this firm, external to Prigozhin and it is currently included in the US list, external of sanctioned companies.

BBC Russian has been tracking which Russian aircraft were downed in the mutiny over the weekend.

Using open sourcing, it says that this includes three Mi-8 MTPR Electronic Warfare helicopters, two attack helicopters – a Ka-52 and Mi-35 – one military transport Mi-8, as well as one Il-22M command plane.

It also says that, according to Conflict Intelligence Team, an open source organisation with a focus on Russia, it’s possible that another Mi-8 MTPR helicopter was shot down near Luhansk on June 23, although there are no further details of this incident.

It’s currently unclear how many crew members died, BBC Russian says.

Of the aircraft lost, the most valuable is the Il-22M, BBC Russian says, an airborne command post from which troops can be controlled during combat operations.

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As the counter-offensive continues, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) says Ukrainian forces are “highly likely” to have recaptured an area of territory occupied since 2014.

Ukrainian media reported in recent days that its troops had retaken the village of Krasnohorivka, near Donetsk city.

In its daily intelligence briefing, the UK MoD says airborne forces have since “made small advances” east from that village.

“This is one of the first instances since Russia’s February 2022 invasion that Ukrainian forces have highly likely recaptured an area of territory occupied by Russia since 2014,” the MoD says.

“Recent multiple concurrent Ukrainian assaults throughout the Donbas have likely overstretched Donetsk People’s Republic and Chechen forces operating in this area.”

Mayeni Jones
In Kyiv

I think it's fair to say that the Ukrainian forces and Volodymyr Zelensky's administration probably feel quite optimistic after this weekend's events in Russia.

He definitely wanted to present a united front as he went down to see his troops in the east of the country yesterday, as a way of further boosting morale.

I get the sense here in Kyiv that they're looking at the events in Russia with quite a bit of glee.

Over the weekend, President Zelensky basically said that Russia was getting its just deserts for invading Ukraine and that everything happening to Putin was as a direct result of all of his decision to invade Ukrainian territory.

So his visit to his troops yesterday and his statement that it's a happy day for them is partly an expression of how confident they feel, but also a comment on the fact that they have regained some territory in the east of the country and the counter-offensive appears to be doing well.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky says the Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces has made advances on all fronts.

He gave no details, but pro-Russian commentators say Ukrainian troops have crossed the Dnipro river and retaken a village near Kherson.

Ukraine's deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar also said yesterday that Ukrainian forces had regained control over Rivnopil, a village in the Donetsk region west of a cluster of settlements recaptured in offensive operations.

In a late night video address, delivered from a train after visiting frontline positions, Zelensky described Monday as a “happy day” and said his troops “have advanced in all directions” on the front.

In his late night address on Monday, President Putin confirmed that Russian army pilots were killed in clashes with Wagner troops in the short-lived mutiny over the weekend.

He thanked all those who “stood in the way of the rebels”, and remained faithful to “their duty, oath and their people”, Reuters reports.

The Russian president went onto thank the fallen heroes that showed “courage and self-sacrifice” and “saved Russia from tragic devastating consequences”.

In an earlier audio message posted on Telegram, Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that “not a single soldier was killed on the ground” during Wagner’s “march of justice”, although he expressed regret that his troops had fired at aircraft who he said were attacking them.

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Here's a recap of what Vladimir Putin said in his TV address last night:

• President Putin delivered a five-minute televised speech which his spokesman had claimed would change the course of Russian history
• The pre-recorded speech mostly repeated what he said over the weekend and claimed that Russian society had rallied around his leadership, choosing him over the Wagner Group
• He accused the West of fomenting the "mutiny" that took place at the weekend and praised Russia for its "unity"
• He also said he would keep his promise to allow Wagner troops to go to Belarus, adding that "the overwhelming majority" of the mercenaries in Wagner were Russian patriots
• Putin didn't make any mention of Yevgeny Prigozhin after the Wagner group's leader spoke out for the first time earlier since his failed mutiny on Saturday

Image source, Reuters

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the head of the Wagner group, a mercenary force active across Africa and the Middle East – as well as in Ukraine. His short-lived mutiny briefly rocked the Russian state. If you hadn't heard much of him before last weekend, here are some facts to get you up to speed:

• Prigozhin received his first criminal conviction aged 18, later serving nine years in jail for robbery and theft. Once released, he opened a hot dog stand in the 1990s
• He later formed his own catering company, used by the Kremlin, giving him the nickname "Putin's chef"
• His connections eventually gave him access to the armed forces, and in 2014 he was involved in a group which helped Russia annex Crimea. This later became the Wagner group
• The Wagner group has since conducted many controversial operations, including supporting Russian forces supporting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria
• The group has been accused of committing war crimes, propping up warlords, and robbing African countries of mineral wealth
• For years, he's also been accused of being behind so-called "troll farms" or "bot factories", best known for interfering in the 2016 US Presidential election
• Over the past few months, cracks appeared in the relationship between Wagner and Moscow, eventually leading to Prigozhin’s brief mutiny last weekend

Let’s take a look at key developments from the last 24 hours:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin released a pre-recorded speech in which he said Wagner fighters could sign a contract with the Russian military, return to their families, or move to Belarus
• He praised the Russian people for their "unity" and accused the West and Ukraine of wanting Russians to “kill each other”
• Putin then chaired a meeting with the heads of Russian security services, including Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu who Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had demanded to be sacked
• Prigozhin, who is being investigated for treason, has not been seen in public since promising to leave for Belarus after sparking a rebellion in Russia over the weekend
• Prigozhin's whereabouts are currently unknown but he released an audio recording on Monday evening, claiming that the march on Moscow was not an attempt to topple the government, but to prevent his group from being destroyed
• UK’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the failed revolt had exposed a weakness in Russia’s defences
• US officials said that their priority is supporting Ukraine, and not interfering in domestic Russian affairs
• In Ukraine, footage was posted of President Volodymr Zelensky visiting troops and posing for selfies in the contested eastern Donetsk region

Alex Binley
Live reporter

Hello and welcome to our live coverage, as we bring you the latest lines from Russia following a turbulent couple of days for the Kremlin.

In a TV address late last night Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of fomenting the “mutiny” that took place at the weekend - praising Russia for its “unity”.

Putin’s much-awaited statement came hours after the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, denied his “march for justice” was aimed at toppling the Russian president.

Putin held a meeting with the heads of the country’s security services shortly after making his statement, and defence minister Sergei Shoigu was among those attending.

Prigozhin had demanded Shoigu be sacked before he started his march towards Moscow on Saturday.

The Wagner leader said the rebellion was a last-ditch bid to ensure his mercenary group’s continued existence.

I’m here with Marita Moloney and Oliver Slow - stick with us as we bring you the latest lines.