“I will never give up on my conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people,” Putin saidMoscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow’s advance in Ukraine is going “according to plan” and ordered large compensations for Russian soldiers killed in the invasion. “I want to say that the special military operation is going strictly according to schedule, according to plan,” he said, opening a meeting with his security council. “We are at war with neo-Nazis,” the Russian leader said, adding: “I will never give up on my conviction that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.”(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)