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Ukraine has destroyed Russian strategic bombers in an unprecedented infiltration drone operation while Russia has launched its greatest air raid in Ukrainian cities and intensified the attacks on its northern Sumy region, when the two parties met for peace talks in Istanbul.
The two respective drone operations were emblematic of how direct peace talks, which started on May 15, did not lower the intensity of the conflict and may have deepened it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin would have prompted A response.
The Russian drone and missile attack on Saturday evening involved 472 Kamikaze Shahed drones, four cruise missiles and three ballistic missiles. Ukraine neutralized 385 air targets, said its Air Force, including three of the cruise missiles.
Ukraine Operation Enoured A day later came and struck the types of planes that Russia used to launch these cruise missiles-Tupolev-22m3, Tupolev-95 and Tupolev-160, among others.
The spider involved 117 smuggling drones in Russia and launched simultaneously near Russian aerodromes where the bombers were parked.
The video published by Ukraine has shown that the TU-95 exploded in orange flames while drones passed them, demonstrating that their fuel tanks were full and that they were in service.
The Ukraine State Safety Service (SBU), which led the operation, said that Ukrainian media planes 41 had been affected, which, according to Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, represented “34% of the carriers of strategic cruise missiles stationed at air bases”. The SBU estimated damage to $ 7 billion.
Western military analysts and the open source media had not fully corroborated the history of Ukraine on Wednesday, but fires and explosions were reported in five Russian bases.
For the first time, Ukraine claimed to have reached Olenya air base in the Russian Arctic, nearly 2,000 km (1,240 miles) of Ukraine, where all Tu-95 bombers were reported destroyed.
It would also be struck that the Belaya air base in Irkutsk, more than 4,000 km (2,500 miles) from Ukraine, where three Tu-95 strategic bombers were reported destroyed; The Dyagilevo air base in Ryazan, just 175 km (110 miles) from downtown Moscow; And Ivanovo aerodrome, 250 km (155 miles) in the northeast of the Russian capital, where at least one A-50 has been destroyed-an airborne radar of $ 500 million that Russia uses to identify Ukrainian air defense systems and coordinate the targeting of Russian hunting jet. A fire was reported in a fifth aerodrome, also near Moscow.
Zelenskyy called it “an absolutely brilliant result, an independent result of Ukraine”, and said it was “a year, six months and nine days from the start of planning”.
The Russian Defense Ministry admitted that “in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, following [First Person View] Drones are launched from an area near aerodromes, several planes caught fire “, but that similar attacks have been pushed back to Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur.
Russia also said that “some participants in terrorist attacks have been detained”, although Zelenskyy said that “our people who prepared the operation was withdrawn from Russian territory in time”.
“Russia regularly deploys Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 to launch … cruise missiles against Ukraine,” wrote the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington-based reflection group, adding: “The drop in Russian planes A-50 previously forced Russian aviation activities temporarily binding in relation to Ukraine.”
The Russian pro-Kremlin telegram channel Rybar and the Ukrainian military observer Tatarigami declared that Russia no longer builds chassis for TU-95 and TU-22, which makes them impossible to replace. Bloomberg has reported that Russia’s dependence on sanctioned Western components would prevent it from putting aircraft even damaged in service.
The New York Times estimated that Ukraine may have destroyed or damaged 20 aircraft, but it is possible that all the strike videos were not yet published on the open-source media.
“If even half of the total complaint of 41 damaged / destroyed planes is confirmed, it will have a significant impact on the capacity of the Russian long -range aviation force to maintain its large -scale cruising cruise loves against cities and large -scale aviation infrastructures of the Royal United Services Institute in the New York Times.
The operation “will force Russian officials to consider redistributing Russia’s air defense systems to cover a much wider range of territories,” the ISW said.
Ukraine SBU struck again on June 3, damaging the Kerch bridge, a vital Russian supply line to Crimea, for the third time during the war. The video has shown an underwater explosion against one of the stands of the bridge, suggesting that Ukraine had used an unmanned underwater vehicle.
Moscow denied that there were real damage.
Russia slips forward
The success of Marring Ukraine was the news of persistent Russian advances.
The most alarming were near the city north of Sumy, just 30 km (20 miles) from the Russian border.
Geolocalized images have shown that Russian troops take the villages of Konstantynivka on the border and Oleksivka, 4 km (2.5 miles) from the border on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Russian forces were close enough to launch rocket artillery in the city of Sumy, killing four people and wounding 30.
“Artillery rocket against an ordinary city – the Russians struck in the street, hitting ordinary residential buildings. Sleazebags,” said Zelenskyy.
Russian troops also seemed to have seized the colonies of Dyliivka and Zorya on Sunday, north and west of Totretsk in eastern Ukraine.
Geolocalized images have indicated that Russian troops had also progressed to Lyman and Kurakhove, two other key targets in eastern Ukraine.
These earnings were part of a slow advance which has been taking place for more than a year, but these are signs of determination of Putin to finish his conquest of the Ukraine East.
Conferences secure another POW exchange
This determination was exposed to Istanbul, where Ukrainian and Russian negotiators gathered on Monday for a second round Peace talks.
Russia has presented a ceasefire memorandum which required that Ukraine officially gives up all the territory that Russia has taken in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, as well as the parts of these regions which it has not yet seized, which could take years to conquer and reach a cost.
Syrskii said that Russian victims only this year crossed the 200,000 Tuesday – a figure that Al Jazeera is not able to check independently.
The memorandum of Russia also demanded a limit to the size of the armed forces of Ukraine, and a commitment that Ukraine will join neither foreign military alliances nor will allow foreign troops on its soil.
He also demanded a Ukrainian election within 100 days of signing the cease-fire agreement, stressing Moscow’s desire to replace the pro-Western Zelenskyy in kyiv.
These requests comply with the terms Putin expressed in a speech in June 2024, and Ukrainian negotiators, who had not seen the memorandum of Russia before arriving at talks at 1 p.m. Monday, left after a little more than an hour.
The two parties accepted an exchange of at least 1,000 prisoners of war, and perhaps up to 1,200, prioritizing the young (18-25) and injured. They also agreed with an exchange of 6,000 team bodies.
They agreed to hold a third round of talks in the last 10 days of June, with the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, suggesting that this implies Putin and Zelenskyy, “because decisions can only be made by those who really make decisions”.
Some observers thought it was possible that the two leaders met during the first round of the talks on May 15, but only Zelenskyy presented himself.
“Istanbul’s talks are not intended to strike a compromise for the delusional conditions of someone else, but to ensure our rapid victory and the complete destruction of the neonazi regime,” said Dmitry Medvedev, vice-president of the Russia Security Council, on his telegram channel.
“Our army is going forward and will continue to move forward. Anything that must be exploded will be exploded, and those who must be eliminated will be,” he concluded.
More sanctions for Russia?
US President Donald Trump has refrained from imposing new sanctions in Moscow, but his position is now losing supporters at the US Congress.
Sidney Blumenthal, a former presidential advisor, and Lindsey Graham said that they would have the legislation of this week’s legislation imposing 500% tariffs on any country that imports oil, gas and uranium from Russia. Graham called it “the most draconian bill I have ever seen in my life in the Senate”.
They made this announcement after a weekend in kyiv and a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
“What I learned during this trip is that he is preparing for more war,” said Graham about Putin.
The bill would target China and India, which explain most of Russian energy exports, totaling 233 billion euros (266 billion dollars) last year, according to a BBC survey.
But it could theoretically include members of the European Union, who spent a 23 billion euros ($ 26 billion) of Russian oil and gas last year.
A certain number of EU members asked for exceptions from Russian oil prohibitions in early 2023, and the EU never prohibited Russian gas, although it has almost completely ceased to import it.
