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The Sun
3 days ago
- Business
- The Sun
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. 13 13 13 13 13 It came just hours after Ukraine orchestrated operation Spiderweb, a sophisticated attack which saw 117 drones smuggled into Russia before unleashing hell on Putin's airfields. The attack, which took 18 months to plan and has reportedly cost Putin billions in damages, has been dubbed "Russia's Pearl Harbour". Now, his mouthpieces have given their terms for a ceasefire. Its first section contained Moscow's "basic parameters of a final settlement". The sham proposal demanded that Ukraine must withdraw its troops from four eastern regions that Russia only partly occupies at the moment. 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 military, permanently declare neutrality and host no foreign troops whatsoever on its territory. 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. 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. 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. 13 13 13 13 13 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. Dramatic footage captured the moment 117 expertly smuggled drones being stored inside trucks in Russia were launched by Ukraine - in an operation which Zelensky hailed as one of the "history books". The SAS-style strike against four airfields deep inside Russia was reminiscent of the most daring raids of WW2 that turned the tide against the Nazis. 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. 13 13 13
Sky News
5 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News
Special Ukrainian operation targets more than 40 'enemy bombers' deep inside Russia, source says
Ukraine hit more than 40 Russian bomber aircraft at four bases across Russia, using drones smuggled into the country and launched remotely off the back of trucks, security sources said. It is one of the most audacious Ukrainian special operations since the start of Vladimir Putin's war more than three years ago - and is a huge breach of Russia's national defences. The targeting of the bomber force will degrade the Russian military's ability to launch missile strikes against Ukraine. Videos shared with Sky News by Ukraine's SBU Security Service purport to show a line of Russian strategic bombers with smoke billowing out of them. "Enemy strategic bombers are massively burning in Russia - this is the result of a special SBU operation," a security source said. The operation - codenamed "web" - sounds more like a plot from a science fiction movie than reality, but it shows how new technology has transformed the battlefield. It also reveals the vulnerability of large bases and expensive pieces of military equipment. A security source said Ukrainian operatives smuggled first-person view (FPV) drones into Russia. They then brought in a load of wooden, flat-pack, garden office-style containers. These huts were constructed, with the drones hidden inside them, before being put on to the back of trucks and driven to locations from where the attacks were launched. At the right moment, hatches on the roofs of the huts were opened remotely, and the drones were piloted onto their targets, according to the source. The source said the mission took one and a half years to plan and was supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Sources said the individuals who took part in this special operation have been back in Ukraine for a long time. They claimed that anyone detained in Russia by the Russian authorities would be just for show. Offering details of the actual attack, a second source said: "Right now, the Security Service of Ukraine is conducting a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bombers in the rear of Russia. "The SBU drones are targeting aircraft that bomb Ukrainian cities every night. So far, more than 40 planes have been hit, including A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3." The Tu-95 and Tu-22 are both heavy bombers that can fire cruise missiles. At least one of the videos shared with Sky News is purportedly of the Belaya airfield, more than 2,500 miles from the Ukrainian border. Sources claimed to have inflicted more than $2bn (£1.4bn) worth of damage on the Russian air force. "We are waiting for the details. And we hope that the number of hit aircraft will increase!" one source said. The latest toll was 41 aircraft, according to Ukrainian sources. The other Russian airbases targeted by Ukraine were: Diagilevo, Olenya and Ivanovo airfields.
