The Russian President seems to have backed HIMSELF into a corner….
While Ukraine President Zelenskyy HAS traveled around to ask for a cease fire?
Putin just keeps pushing the Ukraine must give up , which it is NOT doing…..
The Ukraine IS picking up more and MORE support from Europe and even Donald Trump….
Putin STALLING isn’t hurting the Ukraine’s support….
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Vladimir Putin has refused a challenge to attend peace talks in Turkey but Nato ministers will still meet there as the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, promises to update allies on UK steps to “force Putin’s hand”while the Russian president refuses to accept a 30-day ceasefire. Britain and its military allies will be working to “step up” their collective security at the informal meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Antalya, Lammy said. Military officers from about 30 countries have been drawing up plans to enforce a potential peace in Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is due in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Thursday where he will meet with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ukraine-Russia talks are due to take place in Istanbul on Thursday, but due to Putin’s refusal to attend, they will not be at the presidential level. Putin announced on Wednesday that he would send Vladimir Medinsky, a presidential adviser; and Alexander Fomin, a deputy defence minister; Igor Kostyukov, an intelligence director; and Mikhail Galuzin, a deputy foreign minister. Zelenskyy had promised to reciprocate if Putin attended, and said this week that Putin skipping the talks would signal an unwillingness to seek peace that should be met with massive western sanctions and more military aid for Ukraine.
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Significantly, Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, both top negotiators for the Kremlin, were not named in the Russian delegation. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is expected in Istanbul on Friday to take part in what are the first direct peace talks since failed efforts in the first weeks of the Russian full-scale invasion. Rubio met with Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiga, on Wednesday in Antalya.
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Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Wednesday that there must not be any settlement in Ukraine in the form of a “dictated peace” from Moscow. Addressing parliament, Merz warned of “militarily created facts against Ukraine’s will”, telling lawmakers it was “of paramount importance that the political west does not allow itself to be divided”.
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A Russian missile attack on Wednesday killed three people at an industrial site near the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, said the regional governor, Oleh Hryhorov. Sumy sits opposite Russia’s Kursk region – a Russian missile attack on the city of Sumy on Palm Sunday killed 35 people….
ISW...Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14, 2025
- Russian officials continue to reiterate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent call to base future negotiations with Ukraine on the early 2022 Istanbul protocols that included Russian demands for Ukraine’s complete capitulation.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also reiterated the Kremlin’s demands that any resolution to the war must result in regime change in Ukraine and restrictions against the West ahead of negotiations in Istanbul.
- Polling from early May 2025 indicates that the majority of Ukrainians support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the legitimate leader of Ukraine and are against holding elections before a final end to the war — in accordance with Ukrainian law and the Ukrainian Constitution.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk, and Russian forces recently advanced near Kupyansk, Toretsk, Kurakhove, and Velyka Novosilka.
Daily Kos grunt report for today….
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