Peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine continue, but with divergent proposals and maximalist demands on both sides.
The US president revealed on Wednesday that he had a conversation with Russian homologous, Vladimir Putin, who conveyed to him “very vehemently” that he intends to respond to recent Ukrainian attacks, and admitted that this call will not lead to “immediate peace.”
“We discussed the attack on parked Russian planes [em aeródromos militares]by Ukraine, as well as several other attacks that have been occurring on both sides. It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that leads to immediate peace, “said Donald Trump on his social truth network.
According to the White House leader, during the one -hour and 15 -minute conversation, “Putin said, and very vehemently, that he will have to ripine the recent attack on Russian aerodromes in a surprise operation of the Ukrainian forces last Sunday.
Russia investigates Ukrainian attacks
Kremlin said it will do everything possible to clarify the Ukrainian attacks on Sunday against Russian military aviation aviation aviation, which resulted in the destruction of several bombers.
Russian presidency spokesman Dmitri Peskov said it was a crime that will be investigated.
In the operation, named “Spider’s Web” (“Spider Web”), ‘Ukrainian drones’ launched from trucks within Russia attacked five military aerodromes, two of whom in Siberia, which was first targeted by attacks by Kiev forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense admitted that Ukrainian ‘drones’ were able to achieve their goals in Irkutsk and Murmansk.
Ukraine has complained about the destruction of a third of Russian military aircraft that make up one of the three elements of the Moscow’s nuclear strategy, along with atomic submarines and intercontinental missiles.
What came out of the meeting in Istanbul?
Russian and Western experts expect Moscow to respond to the Ukrainian attack on the eve of the second round of peace negotiations on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey, along with the intensification of Russian operations in East and Northern Ukraine.
From the meeting in the Turkish city, it resulted in an agreement for the exchange of all prisoners until the age of 25, as well as all patients and severely injured, in addition to the bodies of soldiers in possession of the parties.
Russia has however announced its peace proposal, which includes its maximalist demands for international recognition on the four provinces that partially occupies in Ukraine, as well as the Crimea Peninsula, and the withdrawal of the Ukrainian troops from these territories before signing a ceasefire.
Russia rejects Ukraine’s adhesion to the NATO
Moscow also intends to reject Kiev’s adhesion plans to NATO and its militarization projects.
Ukraine, for its part, refuses to give sovereignty over those territories and requires an unconditional ceasefire of 30 days before moving on the conversations.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to Moscow’s “an ultimatum” and reiterated the proposal for a high-level tripartite meeting with Putin and Trump, because the current negotiating format is “no meaning.”
