Russia Extends Drills in Belarus as Putin Agrees to More Talks With Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine—Russia will prolong its military services drills with Belarus since of growing violence in Ukraine’s Donbas area, the federal government in Minsk claimed, as Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted a new round of talks with Kyiv in the midst of warnings of an imminent Russian invasion.

Mr. Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron said immediately after speaking Sunday that they agreed to continue on trying to get a diplomatic resolution. Russia has amassed as several as 190,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, such as some 30,000 for exercises in allied Belarus that were slated to stop Sunday. Moscow demands that Kyiv abandon its aspirations to be a part of NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—and give Russian proxies a key say in Ukraine’s upcoming.