Russia insists war in Ukraine will continue "until all the goals" are met

• Ukraine's military chief Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi announced on Sunday that Ukraine had recaptured 3,000 square kilometers (1,158 square miles) of territory since the start of the month.
• Ukraine's military announced on Monday that it had reclaimed roughly 500 square kilometers of territory in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, the Financial Times reported.

What they're saying: Russia's so-called special military operation "will continue until all the goals that were originally set are achieved," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday, the Financial Times reported.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin "is in constant, round-the-clock communication with the minister of defense, and with all the military commanders," Peskov added.

• Peskov evaded a question about whether Putin still had confidence in his military leaders in light of the Ukrainian offensive, per Reuters.

Putin himself appeared on television later Monday to chair a meeting on the economy but did not acknowledge the military setbacks.

• Instead, he touted Russia's response to Western sanctions. "The economic blitzkrieg tactics, the onslaught they were counting on, did not work — this is already obvious to everyone, and to them too," he said, according to Reuters.