Posted on 06/01/2025 5:04:08 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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1. Zelensky and Rutte SHOCK with statements about UKRAINE IN NATO and Putin!
War & Politics 24
Jun 2, 2025 10:00 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJA4bWfj0JE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius. There, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda will hold a summit on June 2 at the Palace of Rulers, to which he invited the heads of state of NATO’s eastern and northern flanks. Before the closed-door meeting, the Ukrainian President said that the losses would force Russia to sit down at the negotiating table.
According to him, Operation Web showed that Ukraine is capable of delivering sensitive strikes, and this strengthens not only its defense, but also the security of all of Europe. Zelensky stressed that if Russia is preparing attacks from the territory of Belarus, as intelligence shows, then the allies need to increase support now. “Weapons production is a key factor. Strengthening Ukraine is the way to end the war and prevent its expansion,” the president noted.
2. Putin is preparing for more war, US senators warn
Associated Press
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Jun 1, 2025 11:30 a.m. EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZCYt7iup8
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling at the peace table while preparing a new military offensive in Ukraine, two senior U.S. senators warned Sunday, arguing that the next two weeks could shape the future of a war that has already smashed cities, displaced millions and redrawn Europe’s security map.”
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ARTICLE
Following peace talks, Zelenskyy says Ukraine will continue attacks unless Russia halts offensive: Delegations met in Istanbul on Monday but little progress was made.
ABC
By David Brennan
June 2, 2025, 1:36 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/International/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-resume-istanbul-after-surprise/story?id=122407264
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LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the surprise drone operation over the weekend against Russia was a success that will “continue” if Moscow doesn’t halt its offensive.
Zelenskyy addressed reporters following the next round of U.S.-brokered peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul on Monday, intended to end Russia’s 3-year-old invasion of its neighbor. The talks came just one day after Ukraine launched an audacious drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.
Asked by ABC News’ Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz on whether the attacks changed the dynamics of the war or at the negotiating table — and whether they might enrage Russia — Zelenskyy responded, “Russia’s being enraged or not enraged — this is something we’re not interested in,” citing Russia’s attack on Ukraine a day before “at night with over 480 drones.”
“This is happening on [a] daily basis,” the president said.
Zelenskyy called Ukraine’s drone attack a “strategic operation” that “is definitely reducing Russia’s potential, and demonstrates that Ukraine is working on certain steps.”
“Unless they will stop, we will continue,” he said.
Asked whether he was satisfied with President Donald Trump’s administration’s involvement, Zelenskyy told Raddatz, “We are looking for very strong steps on the part of President Trump to support the sanctions and to force President Putin to stop this war, or at least proceed with the first stage of putting an end to this war — that is the ceasefire.”
Monday’s revived talks so far have failed to reach a peace deal, or even achieve a sustained ceasefire, despite pressure on both sides by Trump’s administration. The last meeting between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul in mid-May was the first direct contact between the two sides since spring 2022.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry confirmed to ABC News on Monday morning that talks resumed at Istanbul’s Ciragan Palace, ending just over an hour later. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said the two sides agreed to swap all severely wounded and ill prisoners of war and to exchange the bodies of thousands of fallen soldiers.
They also discussed a meeting between Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Umerov.
Ukraine is calling for a full 30-day ceasefire during which time peace negotiations can take place. Russia has refused the request, with Putin and his top officials retaining maximalist war goals dating back to the opening days of the Russian invasion.
Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin aide and long-time member of Russia’s negotiating team, said Russia has proposed a ceasefire lasting two to three days, on separate sections of the front, to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers.
Among the Kremlin’s demands are the annexation of four Ukrainian regions — plus the retention of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014 — Ukrainian demilitarization and a permanent block on the country’s accession to NATO.
Zelenskyy said in a Sunday social media post that Kyiv’s delegation would be led by Umerov.
The president set out Ukraine’s goals for the meeting. “First — a full and unconditional ceasefire,” he wrote. “Second — the release of prisoners. Third — the return of abducted children. And in order to establish a reliable and lasting peace and ensure security, preparation of the meeting at the highest level.”
Zelenskyy and his government have repeatedly accused Putin of intentionally sabotaging peace talks since Trump returned to office in January, having promised on the campaign trail to end the war within 24 hours. Trump’s threat of further sanctions on Russia does not appear to have softened the Kremlin’s war goals. (Excerpt)
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If this actually makes Russia more amenable to a peace deal, I’m cool with it.
However, I have big doubts that this is the case.
And I’m still convinced that neither side wants peace.
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ARTICLE
‘An epic failure’: Russia reels from surprise Ukrainian attack on bomber fleet Audacious drone raid threatens Moscow’s military operations and exposes vulnerability deep within its territory
FINANCIAL TIMES
Anastasia Stognei in Berlin, Fabrice Deprez in Kyiv and Christopher Miller in New York
June 3 2025
https://www.ft.com/content/132e4327-11da-4412-b36b-7363604879e6
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“Bombers that Russia may never rebuild. A fleet so mauled it may force Moscow to rethink how it raids Ukraine. Deep strikes on Russian soil that expose the price of a long war — even against a weaker foe.
As the toll of Ukraine’s weekend drone raid becomes clear from satellite imagery and expert assessments, so does the scale of the operation.
Ukraine’s audacity — plotting for 18 months to hide drones in trucks to hit military airfields thousands of kilometres from Kyiv — has largely been matched by the material damage done to Russia’s bomber force.
While the effect on Russia’s nuclear capacity is likely to be embarrassing but limited, the attack is expected to affect day-to-day operations in Ukraine, say analysts.
Perhaps most importantly for Kyiv, Ukraine was able to also show — on the eve of ceasefire negotiations with Russia in Istanbul — that it is capable of shifting the dynamics on the battlefield, forcing the Kremlin to accept a new reality in which targets deep within its territory become vulnerable, even without the use of western weapons.
Michael Kofman, a military analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Ukraine’s strikes had “undoubtedly degraded Russia’s stand-off strike potential”, destroying aircraft that Russia would struggle to replace.
“While it may not be enough to halt strikes on Ukraine, given the size of Russia’s bomber fleet, it showed that continuing the war carries a real cost to Russia’s status as a military power,” added Kofman.
The daringly original operation, which involved smuggling drones into Russia and delivering them in disguised crates in trucks to attack sites, hit aircraft capable of deploying both conventional and nuclear weapons.
Estimates still vary on the precise numbers hit. Ukraine claims more than 40 aircraft were damaged or destroyed; Russia admitted only to “several units of aviation equipment affected by a fire”. Other assessments from open-source researchers suggest the actual number of destroyed or damaged aircraft is more like 10 to 12.
Even this would mark a significant blow to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, both in operational and political terms.
The aircraft damaged and destroyed by the strikes made up around 20 per cent of Russia’s operationally ready long-range aviation, several analysts told the Financial Times. These aircraft are designed to travel long distances and deliver heavy payloads deep inside target countries.
Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, said that while many bombers were undergoing maintenance, “these aircraft were among the most operational, making these losses particularly damaging”.
Russia used the targeted bombers to strike civilian targets in Ukraine, including during the most recent mass attacks, said William Alberque, a former Nato arms control official now at the Stimson Center.
“They caused so much suffering and misery,” he said. “This was a direct way of striking back and trying to prevent future attacks.”
Now, Russia will not only have fewer bombers to attack Ukraine but will have to consider changing its tactics. That includes whether it can risk grouping the aircraft together, an approach it has recently used to launch mass strikes on Ukraine.
“If Russia will have to spread them out more for protection, that will directly diminish their ability to stage mass strikes and to overwhelm Ukrainian air defence,” added Alberque.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that the bombers targeted — the Soviet Tu-95 and Tu-22M3 — are no longer in production.
The operation “hit strategic bombers that Russia isn’t currently able to produce”, said Oleksiy Melnyk, a Ukrainian military analyst with the Razumkov Centre and a former air force officer. “They’re lost.”
“It is an epic failure, from a professional point of view, and the Russians will have to find answers to some very hard questions and will need to blame someone.”
The apparent negligence of the Russian military leadership, which left strategic carriers exposed in the open, has sparked a wave of anger in the Russian pro-war Z-community of Telegram bloggers.
“Some shelters were cobbled together for tactical aircraft, nothing was done for the strategic fleet, even though these planes have long been out of production and losses can’t be replaced,” wrote Rybar, a Z-channel with 1.3mn followers founded by a former Russian defence ministry official.
“The strike was a serious blow, and to suggest otherwise is self-delusion verging on sabotage,” Rybar added.
Moscow might altogether abandon the effort of replacing the lost fleet, which could take “years, maybe even decades”, said the Stimson Center’s Alberque.
The impact on Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which President Vladimir Putin revised last year to lower the threshold for its use, is likely to be limited. (Excerpt)
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