Russia and Ukraine will meet next Monday in Istanbul for a second round of peace talks if the Kremlin produces its promised memorandum of terms for an agreement.
After the first round of direct talks on May 16 in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine agreed to prepare memorandums detailing their conditions for peace.
On Wednesday evening, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed a second round of talks on June 2, again in Istanbul. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who led the delegation in the previous round of talks, said a meeting was possible, pending the receipt of the Russian terms ahead of talks.
It looks like the Allies are going to try to derail the talks based on the fact that the Russians are waiting to present their terms. Pretty stupid, since anyone with at least half of a brain already knows Russia’s terms.
But at least the talks are happening. As long as that is the case, sanity has a chance of prevailing over the Globalist and Neocon chickenhawks who made this stupid mess.