Istanbul talks. Russia offers Ukraine/West one last chance
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
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Istanbul talks. Russia offers Ukraine/West one last chance
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the negotiations that took place in Istanbul. |
| 0:06.4 | Yesterday, these are the second talks that have taken place in Istanbul. |
| 0:11.9 | The second recent talks that have taken place in Istanbul. |
| 0:15.9 | If you go by how the Russians see it, then these are the third talks that have actually taken place in Istanbul. |
| 0:22.2 | If you go back to March 22, and then Boris Johnson flew into Kiev, and he sabotaged everything. |
| 0:28.3 | Anyway, we're not going to go there. |
| 0:30.7 | But we are going to discuss the memorandums that were presented. |
| 0:36.0 | We have the Ukraine memorandum, which I describe as the Kellogg |
| 0:42.7 | 22-point freeze-P's DMZ plan. I don't think it's very different from Kellogg's plan. You might |
| 0:52.0 | want to discuss what Ukraine presented. And then we got the Russian |
| 0:55.9 | memorandum, which was presented to the Ukrainian side. Now, this memorandum is very similar, |
| 1:07.1 | if not exact, to root cause Istanbul Plus. I would like to hear your thoughts on this, |
| 1:13.5 | but I just want to say it's on the interwebs. It's on X. It's on telegram. It's on all the |
| 1:20.8 | sites, the entire memorandum. It's not long. It's broken up into three parts. It's very easy to understand. You don't need to be a lawyer. |
| 1:30.0 | You don't need to be a diplomat. Very simple to understand. It outlines Russia's position very clearly. |
| 1:37.8 | It does not get into a lot of details. For example, when they're talking about scaling down the Ukraine military, |
| 1:47.9 | they don't get it to the numbers, obviously, but they mention it. |
| 1:50.8 | So it's in bullet point format. |
| 1:53.6 | It's three parts. |
| 1:55.4 | The first part talks about Russia's terms, I would say. |
| 1:58.8 | The second part gives an option for how you can begin |
| 2:03.2 | a 30-day ceasefire, and it is a 30-day ceasefire, and it provides two options. And then the third |
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