Putin begins journey to Alaska for Trump war talks – but keeps up Ukraine onslaught as Doomsday Radio bursts into life
TYRANT EN ROUTE Putin begins journey to Alaska for Trump war talks – but keeps up Ukraine onslaught as Doomsday Radio bursts into life
VLADIMIR Putin is on his way to Alaska to hold crucial war talks with Donald Trump.
The tyrant has continued to order barbaric attacks on Ukraine just hours before he is expected to be pressured into agreeing to a peace deal.
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Vladimir Putin's huge team started their journey across to the US today as they sped through the shabby streets of Magadan
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Dozens of civilians in Sloviansk woke up to their homes being bombed in Russian drone strikes just hours before the meeting
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Ukrainian drones hit a residential building in Kursk in a last message to the Kremlin ahead of the talks
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Putin is on his way to Alaska to hold crucial war talks with Donald Trump
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Putin's huge team started their journey across to the US today as they sped through the shabby streets of Magadan before boarding a jet to Alaska.
Trump is expected to leave Washington later today with the pair officially starting peace talks at around 8:30pm UK time.
The US President has been adamant the bloodshed in Ukraine must end but a merciless Putin is yet to relent.
He continued to launch aerial bombs in Dnipropetrovsk region overnight with his troops edging forwards on the frontline.
Putin is expected to ask to keep hold of all the land he has managed to illegally seize since starting the conflict in February 2022.
The continued assaults were met with the Kremlin's "Doomsday Radio" which blurted out strange coded messages as the despot started his travels.
The station is known to send out strange messages during tense times for Russia with experts saying it is likely linked to the Kremlin's nuclear defence forces.
Today the signals NZHTI 88751 MAREL 5057 6881 and NZHTI 03649 STOKOTON 2751 2830 were broadcasted with no explanation.
The same mysterious codes were sounded only six weeks before the start of Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Kyiv launched their own warning shots at Russia as they sent a final message to the Kremlin ahead of the talks.
They are believed to have downed Putin's £32 million Su-30SM fighter close to Ukrainian-controlled Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Russia was also hit by heavy Ukrainian bombardment on the Olya port in Russia's Astrakhan region.
The port has been used to import military goods for Putin's war machine from Iran via the Caspian Sea across the past three years.
Ukraine also exploded Syzran Oil Refinery with a major drone swarm which triggered deafening explosions and sparked two major blazes.
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