Russia Seeks Victory Not Compromise In Negotiations With Ukraine

JAKARTA - Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday the aim of holding peace negotiations with Ukraine was to ensure Russia's swift and complete victory.

" Istanbul's talks are not to achieve compromise peace with unreasonable conditions from other parties, but to ensure our rapid victory and the total destruction of the neo-Nazi regime," the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council said on Telegram.

"That's the content of the Russian Memorandum published yesterday," he said.

The former Russian president referred to a series of Russian demands submitted to Ukraine during talks at the Ciragan Palace, Istanbul, Turkey on Monday.

The demands include handing over more territory, becoming a neutral country, accepting restrictions on the number of Ukrainian soldiers, and holding new parliamentary and presidential elections.

In talks that lasted just one hour, both sides agreed to exchange new prisoners of war and exchange 12,000 soldiers who died, but not at a ceasefire whose Ukraine and its allies urged Russia to accept.

Medvedev added, in a clear response to Ukraine's attack on the weekend against Russia's strategic bomber base, Moscow would respond to the attack.

"Retaliatorys cannot be avoided," he said.

"Our army continues to advance and will continue to advance. Everything that needs to be detonated will be detonated, and those who must be removed will be removed," he concluded.