Ukraine launches the largest attack on the Russian military aeronautics since the beginning of the war: A Maxi-Raid of drones hidden in Russia has affected and destroyed several strategic bombers at airports in the heart of the rear moscow, they leak sources of Kiev’s secret services. According to the Ukrainian services, about 40 planes were destroyed, including several long-ray bombers A-50s (AEW & C), TU-95 and TU-22. In the meantime, in the meantime, some explosions made the bridges collapse in the Russian regions of Bryansk (7 the dead due to the derailment of a passenger train) and the Kursk, where a railway bridge and a locomotive of a freight train was hit on the road below). Russia has opened an investigation for terrorism.
The double attack arrives on the eve of New negotiating round that will take place tomorrow in Istanbul: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky He announced that a delegation from Kiev, led by his defense minister Rustem Umerov, He will go to the city on the Bosphorus to sit at the table with the Russian counterpart: “I defined our positions before Monday’s meeting in Istanbul”, wrote Zelensky on social media, adding that the delegation will be led by Umerov, as happened for the first round of interviews in May. The Moscow delegation also started for Istanbullet some sources know to the Russian agencies that confirm that the Moscow negotiators team will be led by the Putin assistant, Vladimir Medievsky.
The priorities of Ukraine reiterates Zelensky, are the achievement of “a ceased and unconditional fire”, the “return of the prisoners” and the Ukrainian children who Kiev accuses Moscow of kidnapped. The Ukrainian president also asked to “prepare a meeting at the highest level”, or with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Request that has not yet obtained any response from the Kremlin.
Zelensky’s confirmation comes after the Russian proposal that had asked for a new meeting in Istanbul for tomorrow, while Ukraine had so far left his participation in the table in doubt. Last Friday Zelensky had accused Moscow of wanting to sabotage the negotiations by refusing to present his “Memorandum” in advance which detailed the conditions for a peace agreement. The positions of Ukraine and Russia remain distant if not diametrically opposed: Moscow refuses the unconditional fire required by Kiev, Washington and the European Championships, asks that Ukraine definitively renounces its NATO membership plans and gives up the five regions that she claims to have annexed. Conditions judged unacceptable by Kiev, who asks for the complete retreat of Russian troops from its territory.