After the meeting, Ukraine's presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said in a tweet that the second round of talks with Russia had ended but it didn’t deliver any results that Ukraine needed.

"The second round of negotiations is over. Unfortunately, the results Ukraine needs are not yet achieved. There is a solution only for the organization of humanitarian corridors," Podolyak tweeted.

The Russian and Ukrainian delegations on Thursday held several hours of negotiations on the Brest region of Belarus, for the second time in the last four days.

The second round of 'peace talks', however, ended without a cease-fire agreement as the war continues to rage. 

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will continue to insist that any peace agreement with Ukraine must include a promise that Kyiv will "demilitarize", and Russia has also signaled it wants to discuss Ukraine adopting a "neutral status" and agree to abandon its ambitions of joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or the European Union (EU).

On the other hand, Ukrainian negotiators said that Ukraine’s priorities in the talks were an "immediate cease-fire," an armistice and "humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians", and Kyiv also wants Russia to withdraw all troops from Ukraine.

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When Russia said any peace agreement must include a point on Ukraine’s "demilitarization", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday expressed no interest in demilitarizing and issued a warning to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

"You will repay everything you did against Ukraine.....in full," Zelenskyy said in a televised news conference, adding that the country "will not forget those who perished."

Meanwhile, the United Nations estimates that more than 10 million people may end up fleeing their homes in Ukraine if the Russian invasion continues.

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"We expect that more than 10 million people may flee their homes if violence continues, including four million people who may cross borders to neighbouring countries," UN Secretary General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

Meanwhile, praising Russian soldiers as heroes, Vladimir Putin Thursday said Russia's military operations in Ukraine were going according to plan.