Ukraine Russia struggle reside: Kyiv’s drones hit Putin’s bombers and cruise missile carriers deep inside Russian territory | EUROtoday

Volodymyr Zelensky stated Ukraine will proceed to suggest a “full and unconditional ceasefire” in at the moment’s assembly with Russia.

The Ukrainian president stated the plan Kyiv will current to Russia is “logical and realistic”.

“We continue to propose a full and unconditional ceasefire, along with all rational and dignified steps that could lead to a lasting and reliable peace,” he stated on X late on Sunday night time.

“The Russians, however, have not shared their ‘memorandum’ with anyone — we don’t have it, the Turkish side doesn’t have it, and the American side doesn’t have the Russian document either.

“Despite this, we will try to achieve at least some progress on the path toward peace.”

The Ukrainian delegation has arrived in Istanbul for the second spherical of direct peace talks since 2022.

The assembly is deliberate for this afternoon, Ukraine’s overseas ministry spokesperson stated.

Ukraine’s delegation is being led by defence minister Rustem Umerov, whereas Russia’s delegation is being headed by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky.

Germany’s chief of defence has warned that Nato should brace for an assault from Russia in 4 years and even sooner as Moscow builds up its forces “to an enormous extent”.

General Carsten Breuer stated Russia was a “very serious threat” to Nato for the time being.

General Breuer stated Russia was constructing about 1,500 most important battle tanks yearly, in addition to 4 million rounds of 155 millimetre ammunition, a few of which was stepping into navy stockpiles “facing the west”.

The normal stated it was “clear that there’s an intention” from Russia to broaden its offensive elsewhere.

“So we have to be ready by 2029 up to then, we have to speed up in Nato,” he stated.

“If you ask me now, is this a guarantee that’s not earlier than 2029 I would say, No, it’s not. So we must be able to fight tonight, and for this fight tonight … we are ready.”

Donald Trump was not given a heads-up about Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strikes that took out an enormous fleet of Russian planes on Sunday, in response to reviews.

Ukraine’s “large-scale” drone assault, launched deep into Russian territory and which worn out 40 bombers, took greater than 18 months to plan and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, each Ukrainian and U.S. officers advised Axios.

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A serious Ukrainian drone assault has destroyed greater than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia’s territory, Ukraine’s Security Service stated yesterday.

The drones hit 41 planes stationed at navy airfields on Sunday afternoon, together with A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22M plane, the official stated.

Moscow has beforehand used Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-22 long-range bombers to launch missiles at Ukraine, whereas A-50s are used to coordinate targets and detect air defences and guided missiles.

The Security Service of Ukraine stated that the operation, which it codenamed “spider web”, had destroyed 34 p.c of Russia’s fleet of air missile carriers with damages estimated at $7bn.

The declare couldn’t be independently verified.

Russia’s defence ministry in an announcement confirmed the assaults, which broken plane and sparked fires on air bases within the Irkutsk area, greater than 4,000km (2,500 miles) from Ukraine, in addition to the Murmansk area within the north, it stated.

Strikes have been additionally repelled within the Amur area in Russia’s Far East and within the western areas of Ivanovo and Ryazan, the ministry stated.

Asian shares sank this morning and oil costs jumped as commerce tensions and the Russian-Ukraine battle ratcheted up geopolitical uncertainty.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng plunged greater than 2 per cent as Beijing and Washington traded harsh phrases over commerce. US president Donald Trump’s announcement that he’ll double tariffs on metal and aluminum to 50 per cent layered on nonetheless extra worries for traders.

A report over the weekend that China’s manufacturing facility exercise contracted in May, though the decline slowed from April because the nation reached a take care of the US to slash president Donald Trump’s sky-high tariffs, additional undermined market sentiment.

Ukrainian negotiators in Istanbul will current to the Russian aspect a proposed roadmap for reaching a long-lasting peace settlement, in response to a duplicate of the doc seen by Reuters.

According to the doc, there shall be no restrictions on Ukraine’s navy power after a peace deal is struck, no worldwide recognition of Russian sovereignty over components of Ukraine taken by Moscow’s forces, and reparations for Ukraine.

The doc additionally states that the present location of the frontline would be the place to begin for negotiations about territory.

Russia presently controls just a little below one fifth of Ukraine, or about 113,100 sq. km, about the identical dimension because the US state of Ohio.

Mr Putin ordered tens of 1000’s of troops to invade Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of preventing in japanese Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops. The United States says over 1.2 million folks have been killed and injured within the struggle since 2022.

Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that Ukraine’s operation in opposition to Russian airfields struck one third of the strategic cruise missile carriers stationed at air bases.

“Today, a brilliant operation was carried out. The preparation took over a year and a half,” he wrote on X alongside his Sunday night deal with.

“What’s most interesting, is that the ‘office’ of our operation on Russian territory was located directly next to FSB headquarters in one of their regions.

“In total, 117 drones were used in the operation with a corresponding number of drone operators involved. 34% of the strategic cruise missile carriers stationed at air bases were hit. We will continue this work.”

Russian and Ukrainian officers are as a consequence of sit down at the moment within the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul for his or her second spherical of direct peace talks since 2022, however the two sides are nonetheless far aside on how you can finish the struggle and the preventing is stepping up.

The Russian delegation shall be headed by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, who after the primary spherical invoked French normal and statesman Napoleon Bonaparte to say that struggle and negotiations ought to all the time be performed on the similar time.

After preserving the world guessing on whether or not Ukraine would even flip up for the second spherical, president Volodymyr Zelensky stated defence minister Rustem Umerov would meet with Russian officers in Istanbul.

The first spherical of talks on 16 May yielded the most important prisoner swap of the struggle however no signal of peace – or perhaps a ceasefire as each side merely set out their very own opening negotiating positions.

US president Donald Trump has demanded Russia and Ukraine make peace, however to date they haven’t and the White House has repeatedly warned the United States will “walk away” from the struggle if the 2 sides are too cussed to achieve a peace deal.

Ukraine’s in a single day drone assaults on Russia’s Kursk and Voronezh areas sparked residential fires and disrupted site visitors on a serious freeway, regional officers stated early this morning.

Russian air defence models destroyed a complete of 162 Ukrainian drones in a single day, downing 57 of the air weapons over the Kursk area that borders Ukraine.

Falling particles from destroyed drones within the Kursk area sparked fires at a number of homes and broken non-public flats, stated appearing governor Alexander Khinshtein.

In the southern Russian area of Voronezh, the place Russian air models destroyed 16 Ukrainian drones, regional governor Alexander Gusev stated drone particles minimize via energy traces which fell on the M-4, a serious expressway.

A small part of the freeway, which hyperlinks the cities of Moscow, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, was closed, Mr Gusev stated. Falling drone particles additionally broken the facade of a number of homes, he added on Telegram.

There have been no accidents reported, the governors of the areas stated.

The assaults come as each Russia and Ukraine are about to fulfill for a spherical of peace talks, looking for a technique to finish the struggle that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour greater than three years in the past.