PUTIN: ‘THERE ARE NO RESULTS’: As Russian President Vladimir Putin offers Kim Jong Un help with North Korea’s space program in return for desperately needed artillery ammunition, Putin continues to project outward confidence that Ukraine’s counteroffensive is failing and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will eventually be forced to sue for peace.

“Let’s refrain from calling it a failure or not a failure. There are no results. There have been significant losses. Since the start of the counteroffensive, they have lost 71,500 troops,” Putin said at a session of the Eastern Economic Forum. “They have suffered significant losses, including 543 tanks and nearly 18,000 armored vehicles of various classes.”