Comments by "Mikhail M" (@mikhailmik) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. Putin at the Istanbul negotiations in March-April 2022 “really wanted to achieve a peaceful settlement with Ukraine,” said one of the members of the then Ukrainian delegation, former deputy head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Alexander Chaly. At that moment I was in the group of Ukrainian negotiators. We discussed with the Russian delegation for almost two months, March and April, a possible agreement on a peaceful settlement between Ukraine and Russia. And we, as you remember, concluded the so-called “Istanbul Communiqué”. And at the end of April we were very close to ending the war with some kind of peace settlement. For some reason it was postponed. But in my opinion, Putin, this is my personal point of view, Putin, a week after February 24 last year, realized that he had made a mistake, and tried to do everything possible to conclude an agreement with Ukraine and the Istanbul communiqué. It was his personal decision to accept the text of this communique, which was completely far from the original Russian proposal, the ultimatum proposal from Russia that they presented to the Ukrainian delegation in Minsk. We managed to find a very real compromise. Putin really wanted to reach a peaceful settlement with Ukraine. This is very important to remember. Earlier, the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, said that Ukraine abandoned the Istanbul agreements after Boris Johnson’s visit to Kyiv.
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  2. The Minister of Defense warned. The use of French SCALP missiles with a long range of about 500 km outside the special operation zone will entail attacks on decision-making centers. This morning there was a massive attack with various missiles. ❗ 🔥More than 100 arrivals to various cities of Ukraine, the attack continues! ❗ 🔥According to reports from the field, the deployment and production sites of StormShadow long-range missiles, airfields and Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft located on them came under a massive attack by high-precision missiles (it is claimed that the enemy lost at least 3). ❗ 🔥The positional area of ​​the Western-made air defense system was destroyed in Kyiv. Detonation of ammunition and random dispersion of missiles were recorded. ❗ 🔥Speaker of the Air Force: The Russian Armed Forces used Kinzhals, ballistics, S-300, cruise missiles, UAVs, Kh-22 or Kh-32. About 18 strategic bombers launched the X-101/X-505. ❗ 🔥According to Ukrainian sources, the Russian Aerospace Forces today worked on Western-made air defense systems. The first waves of launches targeted military targets, and based on the American and German air defense systems identified during the process, they used "Daggers" and air-launched cruise missiles. ❗ 🇷🇺 As noted earlier by Defense Minister S.K. Shoigu, the use of Storm Shadow outside the SVO zone will entail immediate attacks on decision-making centers in Ukraine. And, as we see, today in Ukraine they announced the most powerful raid of the Russian Aerospace Forces - in response to the attack on Feodosia, Crimea.
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