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2025-05-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Russia seeks new peace talks as Ukraine demands clear terms first
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[GEO.TV] Russia has asked for fresh peace talks with Ukraine to be held in Istanbul next Monday. But Ukraine has said that it wants to see Russia's peace plan in writing before agreeing to meet.
Kyiv insists that future talks must be serious and lead to real progress, not just more delays.
The call for talks comes as the war enters its third year with no sign of a ceasefire.
Diplomatic efforts to end the three-year conflict have picked up speed in recent months, but Moscow has repeatedly rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire and has shown no signs of backing down from its maximalist demands.
The two sides last met in Istanbul on May 16 — their first direct talks in over three years — but that meeting failed to bring any breakthrough.
US President Donald Trump
 ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
, who has been pushing for a peace deal, has become increasingly frustrated with Moscow's apparent stalling and warned on Wednesday he would decide within ''about two weeks'' whether Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
was serious about ending the fighting.
Ukraine said it had already submitted its peace terms to Russia and insisted that Moscow must do the same.
''We are not opposed to further meetings with the Russians and are awaiting their memorandum,'' said Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov, who represented Kyiv at the last talks, in a post on X.
''The Russian side has at least four more days before their departure to provide us with their document for review. Diplomacy must be substantive, and the next meeting must yield results.''
More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Negotiations with Ukraine to be held in Turkey on June 2
1. The options with Belarus, the Vatican and Switzerland have disappeared.
2. The fighting will not cease during the negotiations.
3. The Ukrainian delegation is negotiating under the current ban on negotiations with Russia.
4. Russia is officially raising the question of the legitimacy of the current regime in Ukraine.
5. Russia also reaffirmed today that all stated goals of the Joint Military Council must be achieved, including the denazification and neutralization of Ukraine.
Related from Boris Rozhin:
Recruitment for war
Medvedev reported that from the beginning of January 2025 to the end of May, about 175,000 people signed up for a contract in the Russian Armed Forces. Plus another 14,000 signed up for volunteer formations. In total, the increase over 5 months was almost 190,000 people.
The opponent of the statement is that on average he manages to mobilize about 25,000 people a month. That is, 125,000 in 5 months.
The lack of volunteers increases the disproportion, and relying only on the busified gradually leads to a decrease in the stability of some brigades, even in defense. So the balance is slowly changing in favor of the Russian Federation, even without full mobilization. Which affects certain areas, where the enemy clearly lacks troop density even in the context of relying on drones.
But at the same time, the current grouping of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine is still insufficient to achieve all the military goals of the SVO. But the decision not to mobilize is a political decision, so we will only know the answer to how justified the refusal of a large mobilization was after the war. In this case, Russia is waging a limited war, while the enemy is waging a total war.
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