russian president vladimir putin talked up his brutal war of choice and his faltering troops. shoulder to shoulder they held and support each other and they would take a bullet for one another on the battlefield. this as a russian mediator to the ongoing peace talks said today the two sides were close to a compromise on ukraine s future status and nato ambitions. an end to the fighting couldn t come too soon in the center of lviv memorial using 109 empty baby strollers signifying the number of children killed in the fighting so far. one refugee had this to say about putin. he simply went mad, that s it. this is what i think because the a sane person would never do anything like this. in a telephone call late on friday, between french president macron and russian president putin, putin charged ukraine was committing war crimes saying they were shelling residential