Deranged Putin lays out wish list of ‘surrender demands' for Ukraine… despite being humbled by Russia's ‘Pearl Harbour'
HUMILIATED tyrant Vladimir Putin has listed his "surrender demands" to Ukraine - despite being humbled by a devastating drone blitz the day earlier.
Mad Vlad's negotiators suggested Ukraine effectively surrender in order to bring an end to the war, during a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.
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Moscow's negotiating team proposed Putin's wish list of deranged demands after talks in Istanbul
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Vladimir Putin seen on Monday - after he was humiliated by the attack
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Russian Tu-95 bombers burning 'en masse' after Ukraine's sophisticated drone blitz on Sunday
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Putin's payback strike in Odesa on June 3, days after the humiliating operation Spiderweb
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It came just hours after Ukraine orchestrated
The attack, which took 18 months to plan and has reportedly cost Putin billions in damages, has been dubbed
Now, his mouthpieces have given their
Its first section contained Moscow's "basic parameters of a final settlement".
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The sham proposal demanded that Ukraine must withdraw its troops from four eastern regions that
It also ordered that the international community recognise Crimea as Russia's sovereign territory - after they annexed the peninsula in 2014.
Putin's shopping list of demands went on to detail that Kyiv must commit to limiting the size of its
Other terms of the settlement included a bizarre ban on the "glorification or promotion of Nazism and neo-Nazism" in Ukraine - an accusation that Putin's propaganda teams have consistently peddled.
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Moscow also asked for diplomatic and economic ties between the neighbouring countries to be reinstated.
This would include the resumption of Russian natural gas flowing through Ukraine in order to be sold to other countries.
Ukraine's SAS-style 'Spiderweb' blitz step by incredible step: Smuggled drones, booby-trapped crates & a $7bn hammerblow
The unrealistic demands have been seen as yet another ploy to stall peace talks while Putin continues to carry out his bloody invasion.
The second section in the settlement listed the Kremlin's conditions for agreeing to a temporary 30-day ceasefire.
It gave Kyiv two choices: Either withdraw troops from four regions claimed by Russia, or agree to cancelling martial
law
and holding elections.
Additional requirements packaged up with the two options included a total cessation of all foreign military aid, and for Ukraine to start demobilising.
The negotiations were brokered by the US and
Turkey
at the Ciragan palace - but appeared to bring neither side closer to a truce.
But they did manage to agree to an exchange of 6,000 dead bodies, and an "all-for-all" swap of seriously wounded POWs, and captured servicemen under the age of 25.
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The second round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, held in Turkey
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Putin unleashed devastating retribution strikes on Tuesday
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Putin's negotiating team after a second round of direct peace talks
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Russian locals filmed the drones taking off and attacking the air bases in awe
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Russia offered local truces to collect the bodies – but Ukraine appeared to decline, as a senior military figure told The Telegraph that these pauses has been used before to prepare for fresh attacks.
Neither side could bridge their differences on a 30-day ceasefire plan tabled by Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.
But the Don said on Monday that he was open to holding talks between himself, Zelensky and Putin.
The aggressive demands made by Russia on Monday appeared to be almost identical to the set of proposals suggested in the early months of Russia's full-scale invasion.
These were interpreted as a full capitulation of Ukraine, and were rejected by Zelensky.
Kyiv's proposals on Monday included security guarantees to prevent another Russian invasion, no international recognition of Moscow's occupation of Ukrainian territories and no restriction on Kyiv's military.
A Ukrainian official familiar with the talks called them 'unproductive', and branded Moscow's settlement terms unacceptable.
Kyiv's team were also accused of 'putting on a show' after they provided a list of hundreds of Ukrainian children they wanted returned from Russia.
A Russian mouthpiece said: 'Do not put on a show for European tender-hearted aunties who do not have children themselves."
They then offered to return just 10 of the 300 or so Ukrainian children kidnapped Putin's forces, according to The Telegraph.
The Russian tyrant's demands came just one day after the most embarrassing security lapse of his war, which let allowed some 40 Russian strategic bombers to be destroyed.
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The SAS-style strike against
A triumphant Zelensky said: "It's genuinely satisfying when something I authorised a year and six months ago comes to fruition and deprives Russians of over forty units of strategic aviation.
"We will continue this work."
Putin's doomsday bomber fleet is now crippled with 41, or a third, of his most prized aircraft lying in smouldering wrecks on tarmac.
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Ukraine hit bombers at the Russian Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk
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Smoke could be seen from miles away as the planes burned
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Ukraine released photos of the drones in the crates taken from inside Russia
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