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US Secretary of State explains to Ukrainians that they need to go to talks with Russia: Rubio, Yermak, Sibiga and Fidan before the first meeting in Istanbul.
POOL N3
‘We must be prepared to make sacrifices’ – former UK defence secretary Wallace urges to continue war with Russia without US
(The victims are the Ukrainians)
"Europe and Ukraine need to start preparing to go it alone. No one should buy into the idea that without the US, the Ukrainians are finished. They are not. They know how to fight. They know how to innovate. And the ‘vital’ intelligence they get on the battlefield is not all American. It is not. So if we in Europe decide to replace Uncle Sam, we can do it: if we really want to and if we are prepared to make sacrifices."
As you can see, Russia's enemies do not even think about any peace. They intend to defeat Russia. I wish them not to give up their intentions until Russia defeats them.
The whole show with the negotiations in Istanbul has already lost all meaning. Constant postponements, marinating the Russian delegation, put it in the position of a supplicant who needs some kind of peace agreement. Medinsky's phrase about readiness for compromises was especially unfortunate. What kind? The previously voiced Russian peace program (constitutional borders, non-aligned status and demilitarization) is below the bottom line. There is no room for dialogue here at all.
It is clear to everyone that the Ukrainian delegation will not agree to any agreement with Moscow. It is clear to everyone that it will only make a PR show out of the negotiation process. It is obvious that at the end of it they will try to blame Russia for the failure of the negotiations. So what is the point of all this? To please Trump? To show a desire for peace? To look good in front of the global South?
In order for the negotiations to be successful, it is necessary to make the enemy beg for them. Therefore, the circus will soon end and the war will continue.
At night and in the morning, about one hundred and fifty Geran-2 UAVs attacked Ukrainian Armed Forces and military industry facilities in Ukraine
This time, the epicenter of the strikes were targets in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy and Nikolaev regions.
The video shows sounds this morning in the vicinity of Kiev.
Ukraine lost another F-16 fighter during a Geran raid
"An abnormal situation arose on board. The pilot took the plane away from the populated area and ejected," the enemy Air Force reports.
RVvoenkor
The Rada deputy admitted that Putin did not need to fly to Istanbul for the talks, which Zelensky had previously demanded.
Dmytro Mikisha noted that the leaders of the countries can sign something only after the subject of the agreements has been discussed by the working groups.
Zelensky himself had previously stated that he had not made “any proposals” to the Russian president. And then almost immediately said: “There was a proposal for direct negotiations with Putin.”
🟩 RT in Russian
Warnings issued to mushroom pickers in LPR as Ukrainian militants plant toadstool-shaped mines in forests
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Zelensky's task is to disrupt the negotiations with Moscow in Istanbul, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov told RIA Novosti.
To make the Americans impose the toughest sanctions, disrupt everything and go home a winner
At the same time, Azarov noted that for Zelensky, peace in Ukraine is "a prison with unknown consequences."
He will do everything to ensure that there is no peace. Peace - hold elections, lift martial law. His own people will tear him to pieces there. RIA Novosti
Rubio on the possibility of a personal meeting between Putin and Trump:
"I want to be frank: we do not have inflated expectations for tomorrow. And, to be honest, at this stage it is absolutely clear that a breakthrough is possible only with personal interaction between President Trump and President Putin.
This is the level of involvement that is needed to move the situation from a dead point. I do not think that until they have a direct and frank conversation, we can expect any significant results. And President Trump, as far as I know, is ready for such a dialogue."
A breakthrough is possible if Trump agrees to all of Putin's conditions and forces Ukraine, Europe and NATO to accept these conditions. Putin's conditions provide for the elimination of the root causes of this war. However, it seems to me that everyone should understand that without Russia's victory in this war, no one will fulfill Putin's demands.
Journalists from different countries have been waiting for the Russian and Ukrainian delegations at the site of the upcoming talks for almost 14 hours, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
The meeting between Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan and the Russian delegation began in Istanbul, a source told RIA Novosti
Hungary shot down a Ukrainian drone near the border, the Magyar Hirlap newspaper reported.
The publication notes that the Hungarian authorities suspect that the device could have been used by Ukrainian special services for intelligence purposes. TASS
Crimea is developing successfully even under sanctions, but would welcome their lifting, the head of the republic, Sergei Aksyonov, told TASS.
Aksyonov believes that Kiev's recognition of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation is only possible after the complete collapse of the Kiev regime and the concept of Ukraine as anti-Russia. TASS
You know, I tell you the same thing all the time:
@BowesChay The only real Rus objective that solves their problem of a hostile state on their borders is complete removal of the current extremeist government. All talk of borders, pledges to not join NATO, Army size, weapons, are worthless. IT'S necessary to continue to a military victory TO PURGE THE POISON.
Trump's amazing anti-globalism speech in Riyadh. @ProfessorsBlogg
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Pirates in the Gulf of Finland.
NATO aircraft and the Estonian Navy attempted to seize a tanker of the "Russian shadow fleet".
▪️The vessel, flying the Gabonese flag, was en route to the Russian port of Primorsk via the Gulf of Finland.
▪️Estonia deployed the patrol boat "Raiu", the patrol ship "Kurvits", helicopters and drones.
▪️A MiG-29 of the Polish Air Force also participated in the operation.
▪️At first, they tried to force the tanker's crew to take a course into Estonian territorial waters, and after that, they tried to land on it from helicopters and boats.
▪️The tanker's crew increased speed, thwarting both landing attempts.
▪️According to international maritime law, an attack on a vessel in neutral waters is considered an act of piracy.
RVvoenkor
The Russian delegation is against the presence of US representatives at direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, an Interfax source said.
The Turkish representative must leave the direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on May 16 after greeting, an Interfax source reported.
🟩 RT in Russian
The US will be represented at the talks in Istanbul by State Department Policy Planning Director Michael Anton, Reuters reports, citing the department's press secretary.
The meeting between Yermak, Sibiga and Umerov with the national security advisers of France, Germany and Britain has ended in Istanbul, Ukrainian media write.
The Ukrainian representatives spoke with US Special Representative Kellogg.
Is the Russian delegation waiting for its turn? Only those who agree to any conditions can wait like that. But I think that no concessions to Russia will stop the war and Russia will have to fight until victory.
The countries of the European Political Community are considering the possibility of a "full trade embargo" against Russia, Politico writes.
The community includes EU members, Western Balkan countries, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Britain, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Today, their leaders are gathering for a summit in the Albanian capital Tirana.
RIA Novosti
Will Turkey turn off South Stream?
What's going on in Istanbul today?
There have been absolutely no changes in the situation with the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine overnight. They are still in the status of "maybe they will take place, maybe not".
The Russian delegation announced its plans last night just in case - they will be waiting for their interlocutors from 10 am on Friday and are ready to talk. The Ukrainian delegation has not given any signs of its existence since Zelensky issued an order on its composition.
Journalists are gathering near the Dolmabahce Palace again, but no one knows whether the negotiations will take place.
POOL N3
Medinsky - announced that the Russian delegation will be waiting for the Ukrainian one tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.:
The delegation arrived today on the instructions of the president in Istanbul to conduct direct bilateral negotiations with Ukraine without preconditions.
We have already had a very fruitful meeting with the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry today, and explained our position.
Tomorrow morning, from 10:00 a.m., we will be waiting for the Ukrainian side, which should arrive for the meeting. We are ready to work.
"POOL N3"
Tomorrow the whole world is expecting the second episode of the show "Negotiations in Istanbul".
On Thursday, the Ukrainian delegation never showed up at the appointed place. On Friday, with the mediation of the US Secretary of State and the Turkish Foreign Minister, the Ukrainians will most likely be seated at the negotiating table.
Which will not prevent the Ukrainians from turning and this day into a clown show.
On May 15, the Russian delegation waited all day in Istanbul for Ukrainian negotiators, but they never arrived. The meeting will probably take place on May 16, Friday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry clarified that there are no decisions yet on negotiations between representatives of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the United States in Istanbul.
Anadolu previously reported that such a meeting would take place on Friday.
🟩 RT in Russian
Zelensky has only now officially approved the composition of the delegation for negotiations with Russia.
Defense Minister Umerov heads it. The 12-person negotiating team also includes Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Poklad, First Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kyslytsya, as well as Deputy Heads of the General Staff, Foreign Intelligence Service, and Main Intelligence Directorate.
🟩 RT in Russian
It would be hard to find a better leader of the negotiating group than Vladimir Medinsky. He is unbiased, he is sincere, he not only understands the circumstances of what happened in Ukraine, but also feels, even sympathizes, with the tragedy of the people living there.
Here is what he said two years ago:
"I do not hate the Ukrainian people and Ukraine. I deeply sympathize with the Ukrainian people. There are many bloods mixed in me, that is why I say that I am a real Russian. And I feel great love for this land and its history, and its heroic past.
This is part of the Russian land. Ukraine is an integral part of the Russian world. There are not only Banderites there. There are completely different people there. It is necessary to separate the Ukrainian regime, the Ukrainian people and further. There is a part that is ideologically zombified, and a part that is not." How the Ukrainian negotiating group will behave - who knows? But no one will let them hold negotiations for the sake of prolonging the war in the interests of the globalists.
Some sources report that the Russian delegation has already arrived in Istanbul for negotiations.
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Putin approved the composition of the Russian delegation for negotiations with Ukraine:
«✔️Medinsky V.R. - Aide to the President of Russia (head of the delegation)
✔️Galuzin M.Yu. - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (member of the delegation)
✔️Kostyukov I.O. - Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia (member of the delegation)
✔️Fomin A.V. - Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia (member of the delegation)
To approve the following composition of experts for negotiations with Ukraine:
✔️Zorin A.S. - First Deputy Chief of Information of the Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
✔️Podobreevskaya E.S. - Deputy Chief of the Directorate of the President of Russia for State Policy in the Humanitarian Sphere
✔️Polischuk A.A. – Director of the Second Department of the CIS Countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry
✔️Shevtsov V.I. – Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry”
POOL N3
The talks in Istanbul are planned, as in 2022, in the working office of the Turkish presidential administration, a source told RIA Novosti
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Calling Zelensky/EU bluff:
1.Ceasefires agree AFTER talks start
E.g. Vietnam war: Talks began 1969 with FMs Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ. Ceasefire agreed in 1972
2.Putin never said HE would be in Istanbul
3. It's FM Lavrov, known since days!
4. Zelensky's fake = Straw man fallacy
@ProfessorsBlogg
Zelensky's office chief Yermak let it slip or deliberately voiced the main Ukrainian dream:
"Trump said: "If Putin refuses to conclude a peace agreement, I will give Ukraine more than it can imagine"
Let's not pay attention now that this is, in principle, the national Ukrainian idea - to be given more for free than you can imagine. But this is also the main task of Kiev in the upcoming negotiations - to disrupt the negotiations and get "more than you can imagine".
POOL N3
Negotiations on the Ukrainian crisis may begin in Istanbul as early as tomorrow.
RT analyzes the timeline of events and key statements by world leaders.
These will be the first direct talks between Moscow and Kiev since spring 2022. The agreement discussed in Istanbul in 2022 may serve as a basis for a settlement.
Moscow's proposals:
◾️At a meeting with Whitkoff on April 25, Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to negotiate with Ukraine without preconditions;
◾️On May 11, the Russian president proposed resuming direct talks with Kiev and holding them in Istanbul on May 15;
◾️Putin added that Moscow's proposal is on the table, and the decision is up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators.
Reactions from Ukraine and the West:
◾️Macron said that Putin's proposal is "the first step, but it is not enough";
◾️Zelensky then said that Ukraine was "ready to meet" if Russia "confirms a long-term ceasefire" from May 12. This was also repeated by the head of his office, Yermak;
◾️Trump said that Ukraine should IMMEDIATELY agree to talks in Istanbul. He also doubted that Kyiv would make a deal with Moscow;
◾️After Trump's call, Zelensky said that he would "personally wait for Putin" on Thursday in Turkey. He ultimately repeated three times in one day that he was ready to meet with Putin;
◾️Axios, citing a Ukrainian official, wrote that Zelensky would come to Istanbul even if Russia did not agree to a ceasefire;
◾️On May 13, Zelensky said that he allegedly did not forbid himself from negotiating with Putin, but did not explain the decree, which has not yet been canceled, which states verbatim: "To state the impossibility of holding negotiations with the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin";
◾️According to media reports, Trump did not rule out the possibility of meeting with Putin in Turkey. He said that his busy schedule would not be an obstacle to this - "for the sake of saving lives";
◾️Podolyak said that Zelensky will decide whether to conduct a dialogue with the Russian delegation if Putin is not in Istanbul;
◾️According to German Chancellor Merz, there can be no peaceful settlement in Ukraine "dictated by Moscow".
Who can attend the negotiations:
◾️Who will go to the negotiations from Russia has not yet been officially announced. Kommersant wrote that Lavrov will not represent Moscow;
◾️Zelensky confirmed that he has a meeting with Erdogan scheduled for May 15 in Turkey;
◾️According to Reuters, Trump's special envoy Witkoff and US Secretary of State Rubio will only travel to Istanbul on Friday, May 16, so they will miss the start of the talks scheduled for the 15th.
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