The Russian president said he hopes Ukraine's leadership will be "guided by national interests" in negotiations.

Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his insistence that Russia will not give up any occupied territory as part of peace negotiations with Ukraine.

In an exclusive interview with Sky News Arabia, the Russian president said negotiations need to recognise "the will of the people who live in certain territories".

Mr Putin was referring to referendums held by Russian officials in 2022 in four annexed regions of Ukraine, and in Crimea.

Those referendums, which were described as "shams" by the UK's foreign secretary at the time, saw all four regions vote to join Russia.

"The will of the people is what [we] call democracy," said Mr Putin.

He said that he hopes Ukraine's leadership will be "guided by national interests" in negotiations, rather than by the "interests of its sponsors".

Those sponsors, he said, "are not interested in ending the conflict, but in using Ukraine for their own selfish political purposes".

On Friday, the Russian president told business leaders in St Petersburg: "I have said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one nation.

"In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours."

He also threatened a nuclear strike on Ukraine for the first time in months, promising "catastrophic" consequences if Kyiv used a dirty bomb against Russian forces.

"This would be a colossal mistake on the part of those whom we call neo-Nazis on the territory of today's Ukraine," he said.

"It could be their last mistake. We always respond and respond in kind. Therefore, our response will be very tough.

"Ukraine deserves a better fate than being an instrument in the geopolitical struggle of those who strive for confrontation with the Russian Federation."

On Saturday morning, Russia claimed to have captured a small village named Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, posted on Telegram saying that more than 200 Russian UAVs targeted the region on Friday.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv was now in talks with Denmark, Norway, Germany, Canada, the UK and Lithuania to start joint weapons production.

He urged Kyiv's partners to provide 0.25% of their GDP to finance the production of Ukraine's weapons.

俄罗斯总统表示，他希望乌克兰领导层在谈判中能够"以国家利益为导向"。

弗拉基米尔·普京再次强调，俄罗斯在与乌克兰的和平谈判中不会放弃任何已占领的领土。

俄罗斯总统在接受阿拉伯天空新闻台独家专访时表示，谈判必须承认"生活在某些地区人民的意愿"。

普京先生所指的是2022年俄罗斯官员在乌克兰四个被吞并地区及克里米亚举行的公投。

当时的英国外交大臣称这些公投是“虚假的”，而四个地区的投票结果均显示支持加入俄罗斯。

普京表示：“人民意志即为我们所称的民主。”

他表示，希望乌克兰领导层在谈判中以"国家利益"为导向，而非受其"赞助者利益"驱使。

他表示，这些支持者"对结束冲突并不感兴趣，而是想利用乌克兰来实现他们自私的政治目的"。

周五，俄罗斯总统在圣彼得堡向商界领袖表示："我曾多次强调，我认为俄罗斯人和乌克兰人同属一个民族。"

从这个意义上说，整个乌克兰都是我们的。

他还威胁称将对乌克兰发动核打击，这是数月来的首次，并警告称如果基辅对俄军使用脏弹，将造成"灾难性"后果。

他表示：“对于当今乌克兰领土上那些被我们称为新纳粹分子的人来说，这将是一个巨大的错误。”

这可能是他们犯下的最后一个错误。我们一贯以牙还牙、坚决回击。因此，我们的反击将异常强硬。

乌克兰理应拥有比成为某些势力对抗俄罗斯联邦的地缘政治工具更好的命运。

周六上午，俄罗斯宣称已占领乌克兰顿涅茨克地区一个名为扎波罗热的小村庄。

扎波罗热地区军事行政长官伊万·费多罗夫在Telegram上发文称，上周五有超过200架俄罗斯无人机袭击了该地区。

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基表示，基辅正与丹麦、挪威、德国、加拿大、英国和立陶宛就启动联合武器生产进行谈判。

他敦促基辅的合作伙伴们提供其国内生产总值的0.25%，用于资助乌克兰的武器生产。