Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that the point of holding peace talks with Ukraine was to ensure a swift and complete Russian victory. "The Istanbul talks are not for striking a compromise peace on someone else's delusional terms but for ensuring our swift victory and the complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime,

Dmitry Medvedev said the purpose of the Istanbul talks was not to strike a peace deal on what he called “delusional terms” but to secure “swift victory” and ensure the “complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime” in Kyiv.

Russia launched strikes overnight in Ukraine, days after news emerged of a sophisticated attack inside Russia by Ukrainian drones that took a year to plan, according to security officials. This comes on the heels of ceasefire talks in Turkey,