Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul for an hour on Monday, where they exchanged documents outlining their requirements for a ceasefire and eventually a settlement to end the war.
While Kiev’s memorandum reflected the demands Zelensky has been holding onto for over three years, Moscow’s memorandum was a 3-part roadmap to peace, which included demands for Kiev’s legal recognition of the regions that have voted to join Russia since 2014, an end to mobilization efforts, an end to all foreign aid, protections for Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population, and scheduled elections.
Veteran, Author and Russian Military Expert, Andrei Martyanov, noted that the talks come after Kiev carried out the “PR stunt” that was a coordinated drone attack across five Russian regions that it spent a year and a half planning. But while Kiev claimed to have destroyed 40 Russian nuclear bombers, video footage shows a small fraction of that level of destruction on the ground.
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1 June 2025 - Kiev attacked military airfields in five Russian regions – MOD
2 June 2025 - Brian Berletic on X: “I'm seeing a lot of claims from pro-NATO accounts declaring Ukraine's drone deep strike a ‘turning point’ or ‘new capability.’ An operation that took 18 months to put together and is not capable of being repeated (which is why the SBU exposed how it was done) does not constitute a new ‘effective’ capability.”
2 June 2025 - Details of Russian peace proposal revealed
2 June 2025 - UK to build new attack submarines and ramp up ‘war-fighting readiness’ with an eye on Russia, Starmer says
1 June 2025 - China says Hegseth is touting a Cold War mentality in calling the country a threat
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