Zelenskyy rules out a ceasefire, says Russia would use it to rearm

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday ruled out a ceasefire as his country fights off the Russian invasion, saying the Kremlin's forces would use the pause to rearm and regroup in order to overwhelm Kyiv's troops.

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"A pause on the Ukrainian battlefield will not mean a pause in the war," Zelenskyy said during a visit to Estonia.

"A pause would play into (Russia's) hands. It might crush us afterward." Both sides are scrambling to replenish their weapons after 22 months of fighting and are facing the prospect of a protracted conflict. With the roughly 1,500 kilometre front line mostly static during winter, they both require shells, and drones.