Russia catches more Ukraine when Russia enters peace talks | Russia – Ukrainian War News
Russian troops have advanced through eastern Ukraine this week, and the two countries are preparing for their first direct negotiations within three years on Thursday.
Russian troops seized Kotlyarivka in the southwest of the Pokrovsk region on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The epilepsy brought Russian troops within 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) of the regional border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine.
The Russian army also forced them into the village of Myrolyubivka east of Pokrovsk and claimed that the entire settlement had been taken.
On Wednesday, Russia's defense ministry claimed that its forces brought the Mikarovka community to Donetsk.
These are progress in minors, but show that Russia's efforts have occupied all other areas in Donetsk and its parts, even if it is ready for peace negotiations, it has not relaxed.
According to the Financial Times, Russia is even transferring its troops to a major offensive, according to the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Company.
Peace negotiations
U.S. President Donald Trump called for a ceasefire on May 8. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy supported this demand on both sides of leaders in Poland, Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
Although Russia told Western press conferences to “consider”, the Kremlin eventually insisted on peaceful negotiations without a ceasefire, accusing Ukraine of violating a unilaterally announced previous ceasefire.
Instead, Putin proposed peace talks at a Dawn media conference on Sunday.
“We have not ruled out that in these negotiations we will be able to reach a consensus on a new ceasefire, a new truce,” he said.
Zelenskyy said he would attend the talks in Istanbul if Putin did the same. Putin's name did not appear on the list of representatives provided by Russia after his spokesman said Russia would participate in the “corresponding” level.
“If Putin doesn't show up – if it's another game, it will clearly show that Russia is not ready to end the war,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
As of Wednesday night, he said: “I'm waiting to see who comes from Russia and then I'll decide what steps Ukraine should take.”
U.S. President Donald Trump, currently on the Middle East, praised the diplomatic initiative.
“I insist on this meeting and it's going to be held,” he said.
Trump sent his Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and said he was “thinking that actually flew over. I think if I thought something would happen.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host the speech.
“I think we will take the Ukrainian issue to a more constructive level this week and the next 10 days (two weeks),” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told Turkiye's Anadolu News Agency.
Putin's pressure?
There appears to be a link between Putin’s meeting with foreign leaders on Saturday and a proposal for peace talks at dawn on Sunday.
He is still in talks with South Ossetia leaders who are separated from Georgia at 1:30 am on Sunday morning at 22:30 GMT.
This was the last four days of a meeting with 23 leaders who came to Moscow to attend the May 9 parade to celebrate the end of World War II.
At 4:00 a.m. GMT (01:00), he warned the media that he would announce that “the result of international activities is to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.”
Kremlin Newswire Tass reported that when he invited Ukraine to hold peace talks in Tukuye less than two hours later, he also thanked foreign partners for their “peace-oriented efforts”.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine had received messages supporting its call for a 30-day ceasefire in China, perhaps indicating that China has privately put pressure on Putin to pursue peace.
The dark prospect of conversation
However, there was a big headwind for the conversation.
Putin's language was not friendly when he announced the talks.
“Now, this ball is in the courts of the Kiev government and its curators, who are guided by political ambitions, not their people's interests – they are eager to continue their conflict with Russia with the Ukrainian nationalists themselves,” he said.
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On Tuesday, almost on the eve of talks in Istanbul, Putin sold Ukraine's Russian-occupied area to investors in the Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) Association, meaning there will be no territorial concessions. “There are some things to invest there. There is land like this in agriculture, and it is good for tourism development,” he said.
On Wednesday, Russian Ambassador Rodion Miroshnik told reporters that negotiations do not have to go further than the 2022 Istanbul proposal.
At that time, Russia tried to implement a surrender agreement in March and April 2022, when Russian invading forces threatened to take Kiev. It calls Russia and China security guarantors for Ukraine, reduced Ukraine's armed forces to 85,000 people, less than one-tenth of the current Ukrainian army, and banned Ukraine from joining foreign alliances such as NATO.
“Let's go back and make adjustments that have been seen in the past three years and we'll sign the document,” Miroshnik said.
The Western status before the negotiations is also difficult for Russia.
On the day of Putin's march, about 40 world leaders gathered in Lviv, western Ukraine to celebrate the end of World War II and announced a courtroom in an attempt to try Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The court will be established in Luxembourg this week when the European Council convened.
On Tuesday, the ICAO Council formally ruled that Russia was responsible for the landing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in 2014. Pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine landed on the plane in July of that year using Russia's Booker air defense system, killing all 298 people on board.
On Wednesday, the EU reached its 17th set of sanctions plan, limiting 200 tankers Russia uses to evade the ban on oil exports to the EU, bringing Moscow into tens of thousands of dollars in illegal dollars. The EU Foreign Minister is expected to impose sanctions on May 20. European Economic Affairs Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said the work will begin immediately with the 18th package.
Poland closed its Russian consulate in Krakow on Monday after investigators determined that the fire that destroyed the Marie Verska shopping center last year was the work of Russian vandals.
