Posted on 05/29/2025 8:35:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine says it has handed Russia a “memorandum” on a proposed ceasefire, urging Moscow to do the same in return, as fresh talks next week emerge as a possibility.
Russia has proposed a second round of Moscow-Kyiv talks for Monday June second, calling Istanbul “the central location for talks”. The Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu thanked Turkey for its “significant efforts” to support talks, saying on Thursday they had ensured “security and creating favorable conditions for the delegations’ work”.
Should these talks materialise, they would come over two weeks after the historic but unproductive first set of discussions hosted by Turkey in mid-May. Despite high hopes — and proposals for an in-person meeting between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin — the talks ended without meaningful progress, beyond an agreement on a major prisoner swap.
Again, the major stumbling-block remains radically different negotiation ambitions for both sides, with Ukraine sticking to its position that meaningful peace talks can’t realistically take place while both sides continue to bomb each other. From this requirement, a ceasefire before talks becomes essential, something Russia has proven reluctant to seriously engage with.
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Not Constantinople?
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That was my first thought👍the meetings would be so much better there...
They just have one little thing to solve and peace will come:
Russia wants all the land it has taken and will take, and Ukraine wants it all back.
Easy-peasy.
There will never be a cease fire or peace agreement as long as Zelensky is in power.
And Zelensky will be in power as longs as Uncle Sam keeps writing the checks.
Whether Trump fully understands that is unclear.
Or maybe he understands that and is checking boxes so that when he walks away he can honestly claim that he did all he could to get a peace agreement.
Notice how Zelensky always says memorandum for ceasefire?
Russia says a memorandum for peace and negotiation for ceasefire based on success in talks.
There is no valid reason that a ceasefire has to be at the beginning to negotiate a peaceful end.
Why have a ceasefire? So the Z man can reload? Make the deal for peace or don’t bother.
You are correct.
You get Dumber by the day. 🤡
It would be a good time for Russia to present their peace proposal.
Macron, Starmer, Merz, etc. have no real interest in seeing this war end, and are egging Zelensky on with maximalist goals like retaking Crimea, even though he didn't even think it was a hill worth dying on in 2014.
Correction: I meant to say that Ukraine didn’t think Crimea was worth fighting for back in 2014 when it was first taken (Zelensky wasn’t President then yet, but he didn’t say or do much about it when he came into office either).
dont feed the nudgers
Thats a given.
But, its the same BS, just a different day.
After the last assassination attempt against Putin by the Banderite regime, it is a different ball game.
The Russians will hold on their present demands and add some more.
The Banderites successfully sabotaged any hope of a negotiated peace.
Oh I know. LOL The Green Booger wants a ceasefire to rearm and probably bring in some “euro peacekeepers”.
No way does Russia trust Zelensky or the EU/UK to honor an “unconditional ceasefire” which is what Zelensky demands.
Because Zelensky is so stuck on it with those clowns in the EU is exactly why distrust is at such a high level.
I was wondering how to phrase that myself...good work! 😉
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