Talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul: first drone strokes, then negotiations | EUROtoday

Before the subsequent spherical of the Istanbul negotiations, the confusion about Russia appeared to have reached numerous introduced paperwork for the Ukraine decline in their very own ranks. As quickly as Wladimir Medinskij, President Vladimir Putin’s cultural advisor and head of the Russian delegation, had arrived within the Turkish metropolis on Sunday night, he stated, based on the state information company Tass, that it might be declared “Russian position on Ukraine” on Monday. Immediately an nameless “source” of the identical company made it clear that this didn’t imply the “memorandum about a possible future peace treaty” that Putin had introduced in his current phone name to the American President Donald Trump on May 19.

What Medinskij of the Ukrainian delegation, which is just lately listed by Defense Minister Rustem Umjerow, was fairly a special memorandum that, based on the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrow, is the topic of “all aspects of reliable overcoming the basic causes of the crisis”. Even if these two memorands had been lengthy in coming, the listing of Russian calls for on Kiev and the West was recognized for a very long time.

This contains recognition of the earlier annexions in addition to a neutrality of Ukraine within the occasion of a strongly decimating navy. Putin because the earlier spherical of negotiations in mid -May, the primary direct talks in round three years, additionally sweared for a “security buffer zone” within the north of Ukraine and is claimed to have threatened Medinskij with additional conquests.

In distinction, Ukraine, whose strategies had been unfold earlier than the current assembly within the press, insists on a whole and unconditional ceasefire, which ought to lay the premise for peace negotiations. Kyiv emphasizes that Russia’s conquests haven’t been acknowledged internationally since 2014; The factual entrance line should be the premise of negotiations, territorial points might solely be mentioned after a ceasefire.

There remains to be no discuss of such an ceasefire that Ukraine and the USA had first proposed in March in March; After the primary assembly, Medinskij had stated that it might all the time be negotiated and fought on the identical time in wars, and behind closed doorways he’s stated to have made the Ukrainians in order that Russia was able to “fight forever”. The positions are so incompatible {that a} new prisoner trade, because it was agreed in mid -May and was carried out shortly afterwards, could be a hit.

In all variations, the enemies unite that each combatants need to take a person who shouldn’t be represented in Istanbul: Trump. The Ukrainians don’t need to lose American help, quite the opposite, the Russians obtain Washington Kiev. The resumption of the negotiations goes again to a proposal in Putin, which deflected it from additional rejecting the western Ukrainian ceasefire. Lavrov had proposed the present dialogue spherical final week.

Ukraine is now strengthened by its current profitable drone strokes in opposition to Russia’s strategic Air Force, which additionally performs a key position within the warfare of assault for rocket strokes in opposition to Ukrainian cities. “The Russian delegation in Istanbul is independent of the background of the negotiations in a work mood,” the TASS quoted its “source”. That means: A cancellation of the talks is dominated out. It could be equal to the admission that the assault on a complete of 5 navy airfields in numerous elements of the state of Russia ought to have hit onerous.

Officially, the Ministry of Defense has solely confirmed that Olenja within the Northwestern Murder’s space and Belaya in Siberian Irkutsk space – have “come on fire on two of the airfields -” some models of aviation expertise are on fireplace “. According to Ukrainian information, 41 aircraft of the strategic air force of Russia were destroyed in the “Aktion Spinnse community”, including TU-95 and TU-22 m3 long-range bombers and an A-50 reconnaissance aircraft. Data analysts, on the other hand, are based on the published videos of burning aircraft and on the basis of satellite images from less destroyed machines, namely that at least 13 aircraft were destroyed or damaged in Belaja and Olenja, ten of them strategic bombers – and thus more than before in the entire attack war against Ukraine.

As with previous weights, there was a discrepancy between the official version and the so-called Z-channels of the war enthusiasts, which sometimes complained about negative effects on Russia’s nuclear skills. The Channel Rybar, close to the Ministry of Defense, also spoke of a “tragic loss” and a “very delicate blow in opposition to the nuclear protect”. It is “not possible to switch these losses”. Those who did not take care of air defense for the airfields and protective shelters for the aircraft are to blame. The Ukraine had successfully used long -distance roars against Russia’s strategic air force in the past, and also against Olenja airfield in July 2024.

The light FPV drones now apparently rose from truck that had invited containers that are said to have been loaded in a camp in Tscheljabinsk in the Urals. As early as October 2022, the Ukraine had used an explosive truck to attack the bridge to the annexed Crimea.

The driver of the time was apparently as unsuspecting as those who now brought the drones to their locations. In the Far Eastern Amur area, one of them is said to have been killed when he tried to extinguish a fire that was created in the container with the drones and there was an explosion, as a video shows.

Officially, Moscow, nevertheless, has already downplayed or hid the results of significantly profitable Ukrainian assaults on his strategic Air Force, in addition to that of his navy and infantry. Putin’s energy and media equipment succeed a yr in the past that the Ukrainians had radar stations that Russia wants for his warning system earlier than a nuclear assault to react and to have the ability to fireplace rockets, a few of them efficiently attacked long-distance roar. It is essential to not seem weak and stunned – and alternatively to restrict the decision for retaliation to the circles of the warfare lovers with out bringing Putin into motion.