
max seddon
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06-08-2011 19:03:49
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Our report on today's massive and ambitious Ukrainian drone attack on Russian strategic aircraft. "More than 40 aircraft" hit at Russian military airfields in a "co-ordinated operation" 1,000s kms away from the front line. w/ Fabrice Deprez max seddon ft.com/content/16f33b…


Ukraine’s delegation arriving at the Çırağa Palace a few minutes ago. The Ukrainian memorandum starts with a full and unconditional ceasefire. Russia hasn’t published its memo but has insisted the “root causes of the conflict” (Ukraine’s sovereignty) must be resolved first


We Financial Times wrote yesterday about the Ukrainian memorandum that Zelensky's delegation will present to the Russian side today. It lays out what Kyiv sees as a viable path to the end of the war. Here is the full text in Ukrainian and English. The Russians have refused to provide their




Senior Ukraine official on peace talks to Financial Times: No major breakthroughs, just "minor steps as we expected." Russians "just putting on a show of diplomacy for Trump." New POW exchange possible. Ukraine gave list of abducted Ukrainian children it wants ASAP. ft.com/content/6fc8aa…

In a video briefing with reporters moments ago, President Zelensky told us Kyiv's delegation gave a list of 400 abducted children; Russia agreed to return only 10. “They told us, don’t put on a show for sentimental old Europeans who don’t have any children themselves,” he said.



The aircraft disabled by Kyiv’s drone attack made up around 20% of Russia’s active long-range aviation. The planes were exactly the ones Russia used in Ukraine “A strike at the heart,” as William Alberque put it w Christopher Miller & Fabrice Deprez ft.com/content/132e43…




"The notion that Putin is under pressure from his military-industrial lobby to continue the war is fallacious. His overriding goal is to strip Ukraine of the core element of sovereignty as he defines it: the ability to defend itself," Alexandra Prokopenko writes. ft.com/content/2278e8…

Russia’s central bank cut its key interest by a full percentage point on Friday to 20 per cent, its first cut since 2022, as Vladimir Putin’s war economy cools. Anastasia Stognei has all the latest: ft.com/content/545c02…