Journalists from all over the world are scrambling on the ground in Istanbul, right outside the Çırağan Palace — the venue of the 2nd round of Russia–Ukraine negotiations. In just a few hours, both delegations will arrive to begin talks.
The Çırağan Palace is on the shores of the Bosporus Strait which leads from the Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea.
There is a widely-held skepticism among Journalists attending the event that it will go something like:
Ukraine: Fuck you Russia
Russia: Fuck you Ukraine
~ End of meeting ~
Over this past weekend, Ukraine utilized civilian shipping containers, hauled on regular commercial tractor trailers, to unleash drone attacks deep inside Russia; attacking airfields and both Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers.
The containers had motorized roofs which, upon receiving a signal, opened, allowing AUTONOMOUS DRONES powered by Artificial Intelligence, to self-deploy, and attack Russian Bomber aircraft.
While Ukraine claims they hit "41 aircraft" at four separate bases, a satellite image of the Belaya airbase in the Irkutsk region, which was attacked yesterday by Ukrainian FPV drones, has been published.
As a result of the attack:
Three Tu-95MS destroyed .
One Tu-95MS possibly damaged.
One Tu-22M3 destroyed
As of 7:09 PM eastern US time on Sunday evening, Confirmation came in that:
Olenya Airbase:
2 Tu-95MS destroyed
2 Tu-95MS damaged
1 An-12 destroyed
Still no PUBLIC reports of damage at two other air bases and one nuclear submarine base.
Using civilian tractor trailers to launch drone attacks would require extensive Intelligence, Surveilance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) available solely and exclusively to the United States. Moreover, out of the Kremlin last night, two separate Russian military sources told me (Verbatim):
"An attack like this would require months to prepare and would include a large amount of highly-specific intelligence only the United States could provide - and would have provided it knowing full well what it was being used for - in other words this is a US-facilitated attack Ukraine would have gotten US permission to carry out;
This further highlights how disingenuous US negotiations have been with Russia - there is no intent on ending the conflict - operations have continued - even escalated since President Trump took office."
and:
"Any op like this would require ISR only the United States could provide, and constant updates
all the way up until the decision to launch the operation was made - and then additional ISR from the US to assess the outcome.
In other words, the US enabled this attack on Russia's strategic bombers while pretending to mediate amid its own proxy war on Russia.
There is also evidence the drones used satellite communication to control them remotely, meaning US-based Starlink."
A Third Source told me "Starlink was used in this attack; Elon is not going to like the result."
