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Russia's foreign minister has rejected Volodymyr Zelenskyy's "peace formula" as a basis for negotiations, Sky News reports.

According to a report by Russian news agency RIA, Sergei Lavrov believes Ukraine is still not ready for real peace talks.

Mr Lavrov also told RIA that Ukraine's aim of driving Russia out of eastern Ukraine and Crimea with Western help was "an illusion".

It comes just a few days after Mr Lavrov appeared to put an end to any immediate prospect of peace talks in the 10-month-old conflict.

Late on Monday night, he told Tass news agency: "Our proposals for the demilitarisation and denazification of the territories controlled by the [Ukrainian] regime, the elimination of threats to Russia's security emanating from there, including our new lands, are well known to the enemy.

"The point is simple: Fulfil them for your own good. Otherwise, the issue will be decided by the Russian army."

But his comments had come just hours after Russia's president Vladimir Putin had insisted he wanted to negotiate "with everyone involved about acceptable solutions", and that Kyiv and the West were to blame for the lack of progress so far.