{"id":1539405,"date":"2025-06-02T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1539405"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:30:00","slug":"istanbul-talks-conclude-as-world-awaits-feared-massive-russian-military-response-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/istanbul-talks-conclude-as-world-awaits-feared-massive-russian-military-response-on-ukraine\/1539405\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Talks Conclude As World Awaits Feared Massive Russian Military Response On Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Istanbul Talks Conclude As World Awaits Feared Massive Russian Military Response On Ukraine<\/span><\/p>\n

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Despite Sunday’s major Ukrainian drone operation<\/a> deep inside Russian territory which is being called the country’s Pearl Harbor, the second round of direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and coordinated by Turkey were held in Istanbul without a problem.<\/p>\n

“The eyes of the whole world are focused on the contacts here,”<\/strong> Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the delegations as the sides squared off in the opulent \u00c7\u0131ra\u011fan Palace by the Bosphorus. Faden said the aim of the talks is to reach a “sustainable peace”.<\/p>\n

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“We believe that you will achieve concrete results that will bring us one step closer to peace,” Fidan added, stressing that the meeting aims to evaluate the conditions for a cease-fire, including prepare for a potential future meeting between\u00a0the Russian and Ukrainian presidents. There’s also the potential for more prisoner swaps to come out of the dialogue.<\/p>\n

But expectations are low<\/strong> at this point, and it seems that the Kremlin is patiently weighing its options<\/a> to Sunday’s assault, rather launching a hasty retaliatory attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One Turkish publication writes<\/a> that even as talks happened, there are “no sign that the two sides are any closer to a deal, the mood in Russia was angry as the talks kicked off, with influential war bloggers calling on Moscow to deliver a fearsome retaliatory blow against Kyiv<\/strong> after Ukraine on Sunday launched one of its most ambitious attacks of the war, targeting Russian nuclear-capable long-range bombers in Siberia and elsewhere.”<\/p>\n

June 1, 2025: Russa’s Pearl Harbor: “Russian bombers are burning en masse.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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June 1, 2025, it’s Pearl Harbor: \u201cRussian bombers are burning en masse\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a historic drone attack, Ukraine decimates over 40 Russian strategic bombers on their home bases, including in the Arctic and in Siberia.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\uddf5 1\/24 pic.twitter.com\/DQhERz8Yh5<\/a><\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s delegation was again led Vladimir Medinsky, who arrived Sunday, while Ukraine\u2019s team was headed\u00a0by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, and he had traveled Monday. Turkey\u2019s intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin also took part, according to\u00a0RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n

While Russia’s precise proposals and terms for truce are as yet unclear, Reuters<\/em><\/a> earlier previewed the Ukrainian side’s as wanting a full 30-day ceasefire by air, land, and sea – followed by a return of all prisoners, and of the return of all Ukrainian children allegedly taken into Russian-held territory.<\/p>\n

Overnight there were a small amount of Russian ballistic missiles fired on Ukraine, while on the other side the drone swarm attacks continued on Russia, resulting in fires<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Overnight Ukrainian drone attacks on the\u00a0Kursk and Voronezh regions sparked fires in residential buildings and disrupted traffic on a major highway<\/strong>, regional officials said early on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Air defenses destroyed a\u00a0total of 162\u00a0Ukrainian drones overnight<\/strong>, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry, downing 57 of the aircraft over the Kursk region.<\/em><\/p>\n

Falling debris from destroyed drones in the Kursk region sparked fires at several houses and damaged private apartments, Acting Kursk region Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zelensky, feeling confident and emboldened, is warning Russia there’s more to come as US and European weapons are ‘better’ and Kiev has a full arsenal of them. Clearly Zelensky attempted to establish leverage with ‘Operation Spider Web’<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Europe, together with America, has better weapons than Russia. We also have stronger tactical solutions \u2013 our operation \u201cSpiderweb\u201d yesterday proved that. Russia must feel what its losses mean. That is what will push it toward diplomacy.<\/p>\n

And when Russia takes losses in this\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/7vel0PRFrn<\/a><\/p>\n

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One Russian overnight attack reportedly killed 12 Ukrainian soldiers at a military base in Ukraine\u2019s Dnipro region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And as the dust settles from the major Sunday operation, it has become clear that Russia has lost hundreds of millions worth of military hardware, including several strategic bombers, now destroyed.<\/p>\n

Satellite images emerge: “Judging by the images, four Tu-22M3 bombers and three Tu-95MS bombers were likely destroyed during the operation. In addition, one Tu-95MS was probably damaged,” Ukraine media sources<\/a> say.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had hailed the major Sunday attacks as “absolutely brilliant” and said that the planning for the operation had been in the works for a year-and-a-half. “Ukraine is defending itself, and rightly so \u2013 we are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war,” he said.<\/p>\n

The White House has still yet to make a definitive statement, and weekend reports said that Kiev hid its planning from Washington – however many analysts expressed doubt over this claim. President Trump, if he embraces or hails the operation too enthusiastically, might derail efforts at improved bilateral relations with Russia. Any statement seen as giving a US ‘blessing’ might also serve to thwart ongoing ceasefire attempts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 06\/02\/2025 – 09:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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