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Military expert Alexander Zimovsky:
The Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul consists of the most hardcore Banderites of the most cave-like variety.
There is no need to scratch this - all members of the delegation have publicly and repeatedly expressed their views.
War delegation: is the definition justified?
To be semantically precise, we have a 100% militaristic-Nazi delegation from Kiev.
The militaristic component is obvious, given the dominance of Ukrainian Nazi military and special services organizers of terror on the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kiev delegation.
This reflects the focus on the military aspects of the negotiations.
And if we are to be completely precise, the delegation from Kyiv reflects Zelensky's readiness to demand a ceasefire from Russia, and exclusively from a position of Kiev's strength (that is, NATO, of course, what Kiev?).
The Bandera component does not require decoding. We have repeatedly seen, even from Ukrainian and Anglo-American sources, that characters like Kislitsa, Skibitsky, Lugovskoy, Umerov and other delegates have publicly expressed and continue to express Nazi, Bandera and Russophobic views. Which in the Ukrainian context are quite a Nazi media mainstream.
Technically, the military bias of the Ukrainian delegation is due to the realities of the war and the need to gain time to strengthen the Eastern Front, which is methodically being split by powerful strikes from the Russian Armed Forces.
Tension hung in the air ahead of the US-Turkey-Ukraine talks, with delegation members looking gravely at journalists as they waited for them to leave.
⭐️ Zvezdanews
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
Today, Turkey is giving the last chance to start direct negotiations. If they fail, the Russian delegation will leave Turkey.
In general, everything is holding up thanks to the efforts of the Turkish side.
In Istanbul, everyone sees and understands that the Ukrainians are openly trying to disrupt the negotiations and are not ready for constructive negotiations.
The Americans have let their peace initiatives slide and are not trying to put pressure on the Ukrainian side. British trainers were preparing the Ukrainian negotiating group all evening until late at night yesterday.
Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul are scheduled for the second half of the day, the target start time is 13-14.00.
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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