Posted on 05/14/2025 4:02:32 AM PDT by McGruff
Moscow on Wednesday said it would send a delegation to Istanbul to meet with Ukrainian officials, potentially bringing diplomats from the two at-war countries together for the first known in-person direct talks in more than three years.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Wednesday that Russian diplomats would travel to Turkey, but didn't detail which officials would be present.
The confirmation followed an act of one-upmanship from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who on Wednesday said he would be willing to meet personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, should the latter decide to travel to Turkey.
"We are ready for such direct diplomacy to put an end to killings and advance real peace," Zelenskyy said on social media "And this must certainly be discussed with the person who makes decisions in Russia."
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Zelenskyy, 2025: “Putin, I’m waiting for you!”
I think Putin should meet with Zelensky. At least try, Vlad.
But after what Zelensky pulled at the White House at the end of February, I can understand the hesitation, too.
“Neither is your globohomo, nazi Smurf.
Zelensky is getting richer and richer off this war.”
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THANK YOU. TOTAL AGREEMENT. LIKE FER SHURR, TOTALLY. VERY THOUGHTFUK.
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AGITPROP, BABY!
OBSERVE
For some, their only function on FR is to use Russian Agitprop. The Agitprop or Department for Agitation and Propaganda (отдел агитации и пропаганды, otdel agitatsii i propagandy) was created within the committees of the Communist Party.
Responsibility of the agitpropotdel, or APPO, this Communist technique is designed to work as: (1) agitation work among people who were NOT Communists as well as (2) PROMOTE propaganda (political work among communist members.
Typically, Russian agitprop explains the ideology and policies of the Communist Party by attempting to persuade the general public to support and share its viewponts. Also, these the oral-agitation are used as attempts to spread Communist power to Europe and the US.
RECOGNIZE THEM BY THEIR FRUIT THEN JUST IGNORE the” disruptors, detractors haters and harassers.
SO THERE!
VERY FUNNY:
Trying to reject identification as FR Russian Agitprop, the softer look of: Window Licker or Eating Classroom Paste is apparently trying to be substituted!
DISCERN THEIR TYPICAL COMMENT BEHAVIOR:
1. RECOGNIZE THEM BY THEIR FRUIT
2. NOTE THEIR COMMENTS
3. THEN JUST IGNORE the” disruptors, detractors haters and harassers
OBSERVE that for some, their only function on FR is to use Russian Agitprop. The Agitprop or Department for Agitation and Propaganda (отдел агитации и пропаганды, otdel agitatsii i propagandy) was created within the committees of the Communist Party.
Responsibility of the agitpropotdel, or APPO, this Communist technique is designed to work as:
(1) agitation work among people who were NOT Communists as well as
(2) PROMOTE propaganda (political work among communist members.
Typically, Russian agitprop explains the ideology and policies of the Communist Party by attempting to persuade the general public to support and share its viewponts. Also, these the oral-agitation are used as attempts to spread Communist power to Europe and the US.
INTERESTING ARTICLE
COUNTERING PUTIN’S LIES
By Jay R. Mandle
https://www.democracymatters.org/money_on_my_mind/countering-putins-lies
Success in pushing back against Russian aggression in Ukraine requires opening a second front. The war will have to be won on the battlefield. But victory will also require opening a flow of accurate news to the Russian people. Only then can they learn that Putin has been lying to them about why their country is at war.
According to recent polling data, more than half the Russian people believe that the brutality imposed on Ukraine is justifiable. That is the consequence of Vladimir Putin’s drastically limiting what Russians can learn about the invasion. He understands all too well that by cutting off the free flow of information, he can preserve his power – power that otherwise would be at risk. If the Russian population was exposed to the truth about the war, many would likely turn against both it and Putin. However without information that contradicts his lies, Russians are intellectually imprisoned. With almost complete censorship of radio, television and social media, they have no ability to formulate an explanation for the devastation inflicted on Ukraine that differs from what their government tells them.
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It is impossible to know what a successor regime to Putin’s might look like. But it is likely that the outcome of the Ukraine War will be interpreted as a national humiliation by Russia’s leaders. In such a context, Putin or whoever follows him, could well engage in renewed Russian aggression against its neighbors. If that were to occur, the Russian population will need truthful information if they are to resist another war.
The people of Russia are not responsible for this war. Indeed, Russian soldiers were not even informed of their mission before being sent into combat. What is clear is that the Ukraine armed forces have ensured that, on the military front, a takeover of the country will not easily occur. But the rest of the world has an important role to play . It needs to create a second front by finding ways to provide Russians with accurate information concerning their country’s aggression. Arming them with the truth could be an crucial component of securing peace, today as well as in the future.
Stupid Ukrainian woman calling patriotic Americans “communists” because they disagree with her Bidenesque policies.
Americans who have done far more for our country than she has done for her sh*thole, Ukraine.
Stupid Ukrainian woman accusing people of posting “Russian propaganda” but can’t produce a shred of evidence to support her stinking lies.
Stupid Ukrainian woman posts massive amounts of Ukrainian propaganda and gets paid by enemies of the USA for doing so and then has the nerve to accuse decent people of doing what *she* actually does.
Leftists are nasty and vicious.
But they *are* funny. 😂
Just read Stupid Ukrainian Woman’s little ALLCAPS cabbage-scented meltdowns, replete with vile false accusations and filthy lies in an Eastern European accent.
It’s hilarious. 🤣
“Stupid Ukrainian woman”
I have never read any comments or posts “Stupid Ukrainian woman.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4316892/posts?page=26#26
But, it is easy to recognize the typical slander used within that comment.
OBSERVE that for some, their only function on FR is to use Russian Agitprop. The Agitprop or Department for Agitation and Propaganda (отдел агитации и пропаганды, otdel agitatsii i propagandy) was created within the committees of the Communist Party.
Responsibility of the agitpropotdel, or APPO, this Communist technique is designed to work as:
(1) agitation work among people who were NOT Communists as well as
(2) PROMOTE propaganda (political work among communist members.
Typically, Russian agitprop explains the ideology and policies of the Communist Party by attempting to persuade the general public to support and share its viewponts. Also, these the oral-agitation are used as attempts to spread Communist power to Europe and the US.
DISCERN THEIR TYPICAL COMMENT BEHAVIOR:
1. RECOGNIZE THEM BY THEIR FRUIT
2. NOTE THEIR COMMENTS
3. THEN JUST IGNORE the “disruptors, detractors haters and harassers” on FR
Stupid Ukrainian Woman really needs stop copy/pasting the same inane word salad over and over. That’s blatant spamming.
I believe the owner of this site has said more than once that less propaganda would be appreciated. I believe at least one Mod has advised to STOP SPAMMING.
Stupid Ukrainian Woman might also try to be more of an independent thinker instead of copying more intelligent posters’ creativity. Maybe if Stupid Ukrainian Woman didn’t feel the need to earn “mahh-ney” by polluting conservative sites with leftist bilge, she might even be a nicer person and not such a nasty, deceptive harridan.
I doubt it, though. Leftist hate and anger seems to run pretty deep.
Good luck, Stupid Ukrainian Woman.
😊
ARTICLE
Will anyone show up to Turkey peace talks? What Trump, Zelensky and Putin have said: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky says he will be waiting for Vladimir Putin in Turkey, but insists that he will not talk to lower-level Russian officials
INDEPENDENT
Tom Watling, Alex Croft
Wednesday 14 May 2025 16:53 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-turkey-peace-talks-trump-putin-b2750547.html
Putin proposes direct talks between Russia and Ukraine
The fate of potentially groundbreaking Ukraine peace talks hangs in the balance as of Wednesday afternoon, as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin hold back on confirming their attendance.
Neither president has ruled out showing up to the talks beginning in Istanbul on Thursday. Both Mr Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky say their attendance depends on that of the Russian leader - but the Kremlin has not yet revealed whether he will join talks.
The Ukrainian president offered to meet Putin face-to-face during the talks in Istanbul. Whether or not the presidents attend, delegations from Kyiv and Moscow will meet in Turkey on Thursday for the first direct talks since March 2022.
It comes amid a backdrop of Russia’s repeated rejection of Ukraine’s calls for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, insisting that its maximalist demands, which include the effective ending of Ukraine’s sovereignty, have not been addressed.
The return of Mr Trump to the White House has forced the two sides to the negotiating table, after more than three years of war and around a million people killed or wounded, but their differences appear still to be irreconcilable.
WHAT HAVE TRUMP, PUTIN, AND ZELENSKY SAID?
US president Donald Trump says he might interrupt his whirlwind tour of the Gulf to attend the talks in Turkey
US president Donald Trump says he might interrupt his whirlwind tour of the Gulf to attend the talks in Turkey
Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have found themselves in a diplomatic standoff over the proposed direct talks.
After Putin called for direct talks between Kyiv and Moscow over the weekend, Mr Zelensky said he was ready to meet face-to-face with the Russian president in Istanbul.
The Ukrainian president has been the most vocal about his attendance. He wrote on social media earlier this week that he supports Mr Trump’s calls for direct talks with Putin.
“I have openly said that I am ready for a meeting. I will be in Turkey. I hope that the Russians will not avoid this meeting,” he wrote on X, adding that he hoped Mr Trump would “be there with us - at the meeting in Turkey”.
On Tuesday, Mr Zelensky later told reporters in his presidential office. “Trump needs to believe that Putin actually lies. And we should do our part. Sensibly approach this issue, to show that it’s not us that is slowing down the process.
“If Putin does not arrive and plays games, it is the final point that he does not want to end the war,” Mr Zelensky added last night.
He will visit Ankara for talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan and fly to Istanbul if Vladimir Putin also confirms that he will, the Ukrainian president said.
His chief aides have suggested that the president will not sit down with lower-level Russian officials if Putin does not show up. Kyiv insists that Putin is the only decision maker in Moscow.
Donald Trump, who had first proposed the face-to-face meeting between the leaders who last met in 2019, said he was “thinking about flying over”.
On Wednesday, he told reporters onboard Air Force One en route to Qatar that the Russian president may not show up to the Istanbul talks if he is not present.
“He’d like me to be there, and that’s a possibility. ... I don’t know that he would be there if I’m not there. We’re going to find out.”
US special envoy Keith Kellogg said Mr Trump will join the talks if the Russian president does indeed show up. “We’re hoping President Putin shows up as well, and then President Trump will be there. This could be an absolutely incredible meeting,” Mr Kellog said.
“We can get peace, I really believe, pretty fast if all three leaders sit down and talk.”
But the Kremlin has failed to confirm whether Vladimir Putin will attend. Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky claimed that the Kremlin would reveal on Wednesday evening who will be part of the Russian delegation to Istanbul.
In a discouraging sign for Putin’s potential attendance in Istanbul, Russia’s Kommersant newspaper has reported that foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will not be joining the peace talks. The report did not verify a source and has not been independently confirmed
WHO IS CONFIRMED TO BE ATTENDING
Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed he will attend, on the condition that Russian president Vladimir Putin also joins the talks.
A senior Russian lawmaker said the makeup of the Russian delegation will be known on Wednesday evening, according to the Kremlin-approved Shot Telegram channel. It added that an all-for-all prisoner exchange could be discussed in tomorrow’s talks.
The meeting comes after Putin claimed he was serious about a peace deal in a surprise speech on the weekend.
The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed there will be a Russian delegation, but said the lineup will only be confirmed on Putin’s orders.
On the US side, envoy Steve Witkoff said he and secretary of state Marco Rubio would travel to Istanbul on Friday for the talks, with Mr Trump’s attendance still unclear.
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha is currently in Turkey for an informal meeting with Nato foreign ministers. While Kyiv has not confirmed its delegation, it appears likely Mr Sybiha - who has been closely involved in talks so far - will be part of it.
Ukraine and Russia have held separate talks with the Trump administration in Saudi Arabia this year, though the meetings failed to achieve tangible results.
Ukraine’s talks were led by Mr Yermak, and foreign minister Andriy Sybiha, a former deputy to Mr Yermak who took over as the country’s top diplomat last September.
Russia’s talks were led by the country’s longest-serving government official, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
While he is a loyalist to Putin, he is not thought to have any influence on the Russian leader’s decision-making process on Ukraine, nor is he part of Putin’s inner circle.
The Russian leader’s top foreign policy advisor and former ambassador to the US, Yuri Ushakov, also attended the talks.
Mr Ushakov said earlier this week that the talks in Istanbul should consider the results of the “negotiations interrupted in 2022” and the “situation on the ground”.
Mr Erdogan said he had discussed Russian-Ukrainian peace efforts in separate calls with Mr Zelensky, Putin and Mr Trump.
He said “a new window of opportunity has emerged for peace” and claimed that previous talks hosted by Turkey in 2022 came close to success.
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF A DEAL TO END THE WAR?
Few are optimistic about the talks. While the Trump administration says it is positive that the two countries are sitting down for talks after three years, the reality of their irreconcilable positions remains.
PUTIN INSISTS that UKRAINE MUST EFFECTIVELY DISARM, ABANDON ITS BID TO JOIN NATO, and CEDE FOUR REGIONS, INCLUDING PARTS OD DONETSK, ZAPORIZHZHIA and KHERSON that are NOT CONTROLLED BY RUSSIA.
Ukraine and its Western allies insist that this amounts to attempts to remove the country’s sovereignty and leave Kyiv weakened while facing the possibility of a second Russian invasion.
Moscow also wants Ukraine to recognize the Crimean peninsula as Russian, a red line that Kyiv says it will never do. Putin illegally annexed the peninsula, which borders Russia in the Black Sea, in 2014 following pro-European and pro-democracy protests on mainland Ukraine.
Ukraine’s European partners, including the UK, have insisted that RUSSIA MUST AGREE TO A CEASEFIRE BEFORE ANY TRUCE IS NEGOTIATED. If Putin refuses, they will slap additional sanctions on Moscow.
Russia has responded by saying it will not respond to threats.
The last face-to-face peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, held in Turkey in March 2022, broke down without any agreement.
Russia also DECLINED to renew a deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations to allow Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea in the summer of 2023, a year after it was agreed.
There have been dozens of ceasefires and peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the wake of Putin’s initial invasion in 2014 after the ousting of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. None of them materialized into a substantial agreement.
Interesting how this “stupid woman” only focuses on the “Stupid Woman” but not on the facts that you posted.
Also interesting that she doesn’t post the names or any evidence of the Russian Communists who are “supposedly” posting on FR.
She wouldn’t be lying again, now would she ?
To: All
OBSERVE that for some, their only function on FR is to use Russian Agitprop. This Communist technique is designed to work as:
(1) agitation work among people who were NOT Communists as well as
(2) PROMOTE propaganda (political work among communist members.
Typically, Russian agitprop explains the ideology and policies of the Communist Party by attempting to
1: persuade the general public to support and share its viewpoints.
2: the oral-agitation are used as attempts to spread Communist power to Europe and the US.
DISCERN THEIR TYPICAL COMMENT BEHAVIOR:
1. NOTE THEIR COMMENTS
2. RECOGNIZE THEM BY THEIR FRUIT
3. THEN JUST IGNORE the “disruptors, detractors haters and harassers”
>>>> I think Putin should meet with Zelensky. At least try, Vlad.
But after what Zelensky pulled at the White House at the end of February, I can understand the hesitation, too.<<<<
Putin is a thug, but at least he’s not a whiny, classless, ingrate thug who has his hand in our pockets.
I don’t think she knows how to be truthful.
Lying comes naturally to these people. It’s pathetic.
They’re extra vicious lately because their leftist wet dreams continue to be thwarted. It must really suck to be anti-American trash these days. 😁
Oh yeah, they’re both despicable. I wonder if they’re even capable of speaking civilly to each other?
And yes, while they’re both huge pains in the posterior who clearly don’t want peace, only one of them is constantly trying to get more money from us, the American taxpayers.
What even is she trying to say here? 😂🤣 She posts nonstop Ukrainian agitprop, but maybe gets confused and tries to post Russian agitprop too? It’s all Slavic, I guess.
What a busy, busy leftist she must be, what with all of that Slavic propaganda to spread, windows that need licking with little paste snack breaks in-between.
That’s why the windows in her house have a faint paste odor.
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