Russia's top general says forces advancing on Ukraine's Myrnohrad

Russia's top general, Valery Gerasimov, said on Tuesday that Russian forces were advancing along the entire front line in Ukraine and targeting surrounded Ukrainian troops in the town of Myrnohrad.

In a command post meeting with officers of the Centre Grouping, which is fighting in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, Gerasimov said President Vladimir Putin has ordered the defeat of Ukrainian forces in Myrnohrad, a town with a pre-war population of some 46,000 people to the east of Pokrovsk.

Russia has taken control of more than 30 percent of Myrnohrad's buildings, Gerasimov said.

Ukraine has repeatedly denied Russian claims that Pokrovsk has fallen and says its forces still hold part of the city and are fighting back in Myrnohrad.

Ukraine says it is holding its defensive lines and forcing Russia to pay a high price for what it says are relatively modest gains.

Putin said last week that Russia would take full control of Ukraine's Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, something Kyiv has flatly rejected.

Meanwhile, U.S.-brokered peace efforts are underway as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks to persuade the Trump administration to revise a 28-point proposal it previously unveiled.

Kyiv is expected to present a revised plan to Washington on Tuesday, a day after Zelenskyy held talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London.

In his online press conference on Monday, Zelenskyy said Kyiv had no legal or moral right to give up land to Russia. "Do we envision ceding territories? We have no legal right to do so, under Ukrainian law, our constitution and international law. And we don't have any moral right either," he told reporters.

He said the current peace plan differs from earlier versions in that it now has 20 points, after what he called some "obvious anti-Ukrainian points were removed."

The urgency is mounting as Kyiv faces pressure from the White House to quickly agree to a peace deal. U.S. President Donald Trump earlier accused Zelenskyy of not reading his administration's proposal, saying he was "a little bit disappointed."

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin last week, with Moscow rejecting parts of the U.S. proposal. Putin's senior foreign policy adviser and key negotiator, Yuri Ushakov, earlier said they did not reach a compromise on ending the conflict.

He suggested that Russia's negotiating position had been bolstered by what Moscow said were its recent battlefield gains.

(With input from agencies)