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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 has arrived in Istanbul for a second round of peace talks with Russia. The talks are set for Monday afternoon. The sides will exchange memorandums on a possible peace. Russia has refused to share theirs, but complained the Ukrainian one isn’t in Russian.

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

The view from Turkey

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

The second round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks are underway in Istanbul. They'll exchange memorandums about what a ceasefire could look like, then go from there. Ukraine's starts with an unconditional ceasefire. Russia refused to share anything in advance. photo via BBC/pool

Russian state media says the talks are already over after a bit more than an hour. They claim both sides spoke Russian during the talks.

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.

Tass have published Russia's memorandum, which it refused to hand over to Ukraine until the peace talks in Istanbul today. The demands basically amount to surrender, regime change, and putting Ukraine back in Russia's grip. They are: 1) Ukraine withdraws from four partially

New: Ukraine's SBU security service behind the audacious drone attack deep inside Russia now says it has attacked the Kerch bridge in occupied Crimea in a months-long operation. It says SBU agents "mined the supports" of the bridge with 1,100kg of TNT under the water line and

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…

Putin has rejected Ukraine's offer of a summit with Zelensky and an immediate ceasefire. This is his first time addressing the major Ukrainian strikes last weekend, and a marked rhetorical escalation. "Who has negotiations with terrorists?" he says.

"It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace," Trump says after speaking to Putin, who hasn't acknowledged Ukraine's attacks on Russian airfields but appears to have vowed to retaliate

Christ. The Russian army launched another strike today on Kherson’s regional government building, now destroying it, according to the regional military administration head below.

"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…