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Russia and Ukraine continued to launch air strikes overnight while they were preparing to meet for a second cycle of direct peace talks in Turkiye.
The Ukrainian delegation arrived in Istanbul on Monday, despite the recent rhetoric of kyiv, suggesting that this might not participate in the follow -up of the first series of talks between adversaries last monthDuring which little progress was made to a ceasefire in the war, launched by Russia as it invaded its neighbor in February 2022.
Russian negotiators have also announced that they had arrived in the Turkish city, where kyiv and Moscow – under pressure from the United States – should present respective memorandums on peace conditions.
The first series of talks ended with an exchange of agreed prisoners, Ukraine complaining that Russia continues to make unacceptable and unrealistic requirements.
Russia has resist pressure To send his memorandum to Kyiv in advance. However, the presidential advisor Vladimir Medinsky, the main negotiator of Moscow, was quoted by the Tass news agency, saying that the Kremlin had received the proposal of Ukraine.
kyiv, according to the Reuters news agency, proposed a roadmap for lasting peace, without restrictions on its military force or the international recognition of Russian sovereignty in certain parts of Ukraine, of the conditions that Moscow sought to insist.
While the delegations arrived in Turkiye, Ukrainian officials were busy coordinating the European allies, who seek to support kyiv in the midst of uncertainty about the commitment of the United States under President Donald Trump.
Before the meeting with their Russian counterparts, the Ukrainian delegation met representatives of Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Above the same time, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrived in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius for a summit with the leaders of the oriental Nordic members of NATO, who are some of the most loyal donors of kyiv in the middle of the Russian invasion.
“If Ukraine is not present at the NATO summit, it will be a victory for Putin, but not over Ukraine, but on NATO,” he said last week.
Zelensky wants the Western military alliance to offer security guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire or peace, which Moscow called “unacceptable”.
Zelenskyy had reiterated calls to a “complete and unconditional ceasefire” before talks.
“Second – the liberation of prisoners. Third – the return of kidnapped children,” he said in an article on social networks.
Zelenskyy also called for a direct meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin previously declared that such a meeting could only take place after the delegations have reached broader “agreements”.
Russia continues to demand that a ceasefire agreement must tackle the “deep causes” of the conflict. He has constantly referred to the limitation of Ukraine’s military capacities, prohibiting Ukraine from joining NATO and accepting territorial concessions.
Massive bombing
While the delegations arrived in Istanbul, the two countries reported bombing after massive night attacks.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia said on Monday that its air defense units had “intercepted and destroyed” 16 Ukrainian drones, the majority of which were above the neighboring regions, including 57 intercepted in the Kursk region and 31 in the Belgorod region.
One day earlier, Ukraine produced one of its biggest And the most successful attacks against Russian soil, hitting dozens of strategic bombers in Siberia and other military bases in the country.
Ukraine, on the other hand, reported that Russia had targeted its territory with 80 drones overnight, hitting 12 targets.
The governor of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, wrote on Telegram that Artillery Fire had killed a 40 -year -old man in the Korabelny district.
A five-year-old was also injured in Kherson’s attack and undergoing medical supervision, he added.
