Press conference following peace talks in Istanbul.
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VLADIMIR Putin has brazenly listed his “surrender demands” for Ukraine – despite being humiliated by Russia’s “Pearl Harbour”.

The deranged tyrant’s negotiators said an end to the war would only be agreed if Kyiv surrenders huge chunks of territory and accepts limits on the size of its army.

Press conference following peace talks in Istanbul.

Moscow’s negotiating team proposed Putin’s wish list of deranged demands after talks in IstanbulCredit: Alamy
Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Moscow.

Vladimir Putin seen on Monday – after he was humiliated by the attackCredit: Reuters
Laptop screen showing a burning Russian bomber.

Russian Tu-95 bombers burning ‘en masse’ after Ukraine’s sophisticated drone blitz on Sunday
Firefighters battling a large fire at a postal company terminal in Odesa, Ukraine.

Putin’s payback strike in Odesa on June 3, days after the humiliating operation SpiderwebCredit: Reuters
Illustration of Putin's demands for Ukraine, including a map highlighting territorial concessions and military restrictions.

Moscow’s audacious demands came just a day after Ukraine orchestrated Operation Spiderweb – which wiped out a third of Putin’s nuclear bombers.

The sophisticated attack saw 117 drones smuggled into Russia before unleashing hell on Putin’s airfields.

Spiderweb – dubbed Russia’s “Pearl Harbour” – took 18 months to plan and is understood to have cost Putin billions in damages.

Despite being left red-faced by the mammoth assault, Putin’s mouthpieces shamelessly gave his terms for a ceasefire during a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on Monday.

Its first section contained Moscow’s “basic parameters of a final settlement”.

The sham proposal demands Ukraine withdraw its troops from four eastern regions that Russia only partly occupies at the moment.

It also ordered that the international community recognise Crimea as Russia’s sovereign territory – after they annexed the peninsula in 2014.

Putin’s shopping list of demands went on to detail that Kyiv must commit to limiting the size of its military.

The tyrant also wants Ukraine to permanently declare neutrality and host no foreign troops whatsoever on its territory.

Other terms of the settlement included a bizarre ban on the “glorification or promotion of Nazism and neo-Nazism” in Ukraine – an accusation that Putin’s propaganda teams have consistently peddled.

Ukraine’s SAS-style ‘Spiderweb’ blitz step by incredible step: Smuggled drones, booby-trapped crates & a $7bn hammerblow

Moscow also asked for diplomatic and economic ties between the neighbouring countries to be reinstated.

This would include the resumption of Russian natural gas flowing through Ukraine in order to be sold to other countries.

The unrealistic demands have been seen as yet another ploy to stall peace talks while Putin continues to carry out his bloody invasion.

The second section in the settlement listed the Kremlin’s conditions for agreeing to a temporary 30-day ceasefire.

It gave Kyiv two choices -either withdraw troops from four regions claimed by Russia, or agree to cancelling martial law and holding elections.

Additional requirements packaged up with the two options included a total cessation of all foreign military aid, and for Ukraine to start demobilising.

The negotiations were brokered by the US and Turkey at the Ciragan palace – but appeared to bring neither side closer to a truce.

But they did manage to agree to an exchange of 6,000 dead bodies, and an “all-for-all” swap of seriously wounded prisoners of war, and captured servicemen under the age of 25.

Illustration of a map detailing a Ukrainian drone operation against Russian airbases.

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The second round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, held in Turkey
Firefighters extinguishing burning cars in Sumy, Ukraine.

Putin unleashed devastating retribution strikes on TuesdayCredit: Reuters
Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation, giving a statement to the press.

Putin’s negotiating team after a second round of direct peace talksCredit: AFP
Smoke rising near a truck and a distant aircraft.

Russian locals filmed the drones taking off and attacking the air bases in awe

Russia offered local truces to collect the bodies – but Ukraine appeared to decline.

A senior military figure told The Telegraph that these pauses have been used before to prepare for fresh attacks.

Neither side could bridge their differences on a 30-day ceasefire plan tabled by Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

But the US leader said on Monday that he was open to holding talks between himself, Zelensky and Putin.

The aggressive demands made by Russia on Monday appeared to be almost identical to the set of proposals suggested in the early months of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

These were interpreted as a full capitulation of Ukraine, and were rejected by Zelensky.

Kyiv’s proposals on Monday included security guarantees to prevent another Russian invasion, no international recognition of Moscow’s occupation of Ukrainian territories and no restriction on Kyiv’s military.

A Ukrainian official familiar with the talks called them “unproductive”, and branded Moscow’s settlement terms unacceptable.

Kyiv’s team were also accused of “putting on a show” after they provided a list of hundreds of Ukrainian children they wanted returned from Russia.

A Russian mouthpiece said: “Do not put on a show for European tender-hearted aunties who do not have children themselves.”

They then offered to return just 10 of the 300 or so Ukrainian children kidnapped Putin’s forces, according to The Telegraph.

The Russian tyrant’s demands came just one day after the most embarrassing security lapse of his war, which let allowed some 40 Russian strategic bombers to be destroyed.

Dramatic footage captured the moment 117 expertly smuggled drones being stored inside trucks in Russia were launched by Ukraine – in an operation which Zelensky hailed as one of the “history books“.

The SAS-style strike against four airfields deep inside Russia was reminiscent of the most daring raids of WW2 that turned the tide against the Nazis.

A triumphant Zelensky said: “It’s genuinely satisfying when something I authorised a year and six months ago comes to fruition and deprives Russians of over forty units of strategic aviation.

“We will continue this work.”

Putin’s doomsday bomber fleet is now crippled with 41, or a third, of his most prized aircraft lying in smouldering wrecks on tarmac.

Burning airplane at Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk, Siberia.

Ukraine hit bombers at the Russian Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk
Smoke billowing over the Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk after a suspected drone strike.

Smoke could be seen from miles away as the planes burned
Multiple drones in transport crates.

Ukraine released photos of the drones in the crates taken from inside Russia
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