The Peace Conversations of Ukraine-Russia are resumed in Istanbul after an attack of surprise drones

London – The Ukrainian and Russian delegations met again in Istanbul on Monday to participate in the next round of peace conversations negotiated in the United States aimed at ending the invasion of their 3 -year -old neighbor of Russia. The conversations occurred only one day after Ukraine launched a bold drone attack against the strategic fleet of Russian bombers.

The conversations revived so far have failed to reach a peace agreement, or even reach a sustained fire, despite the pressure on both sides of the administration of President Donald Trump. The last meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul in mid -May was the first direct contact between the two parties from the spring of 2022.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed ABC News on Monday morning that the conversations resumed at the Cyan Palace in Estanbul, which ended just over an hour later. Ukraine Defense Minister Rustem Uumev said the two parties agreed to exchange all seriously injured and sick war prisoners and exchange the bodies of thousands of fallen soldiers.

They also discussed a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Uumerov.

Ukraine is asking for a full fire of 30 days during which peace negotiations can take place. Russia has rejected the application, with Putin and its senior officials retaining maximum war objectives that date back to the initial days of the Russian invasion.

Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin assistant and a member of the negotiation of Russia, said Russia proposed a high fire that lasts two or three days, in sections separate from the front, to recover the bodies of the fallen soldiers.

Among the demands of Kremlin are the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, plus the retention of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014, Ukrainian demilitarization and a permanent blockade in the adhesion of the country to NATO.

Zelenskyy said in a publication on Sunday’s social networks that Kyiv’s delegation would be directed by Uumerov.

The president established the objectives of Ukraine for the meeting. “First, a high and unconditional fire,” he wrote. “Second, the release of prisoners. Third, the return of the kidnapped children. And to establish a reliable and lasting peace and guarantee security, the preparation of the meeting at the highest level.”

Zelenskyy and his government have repeatedly accused Putin of intentionally sabotling peace conversations since Trump returned to office in January, after promising in the campaign to finish the war within 24 hours. The threat of Trump of new sanctions to Russia does not seem to have softened the Kremlin war objectives.

Zelenskyy and his European sponsors have pressed to Trump to increase Putin pressure through the introduction of new sanctions on Russia and provide Ukraine more military support. Keith Kellogg, sent from Trump Ukraine-Russia, hinted at the growing frustration of the president with Moscow, telling ABC News last week that the president has “seen a level of irrationality that really frustrates him.”

In a telephone conversation with Trump in May, Putin said Russia would provide a “peace memorandum” describing a possible agreement. Moscow provided the document on Monday, according to Uumerov. Medinsky said Sunday that the Russian team had received the Ukraine version of the Peace Memorandum.

Umerov said Monday that they will take a week to study the documents before deciding on the next steps.

Since the last round of conversations in Istanbul, Trump has attacked Putin, calling him “absolutely crazy”, and again criticized Zelenskyy, telling the Ukrainian leader: “Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it and it is better to stop.”

Oleksandr Merezhko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament that represents the Zelenskyy party and the president of the Body Foreign Affairs Committee, said ABC News: “The main objective of Russia is to avoid the sanctions pretending to negotiate.”

“Putin is not interested in negotiations and the high fire, because he hopes to start an offensive during the summer,” Merezhko added.

“On the one hand, it mimics the negotiations to avoid Trump’s sanctions and simultaneously to demonstrate that Russia is not politically isolated. However, on the other hand, Putin hopes that if Trump decides to retire from negotiations, he will leave Ukraine without military support, one by one with Russia.”

The conversations arrive a day after Ukraine launched one of the most impressive attacks of the war. In what a source in the Ukraine Security Service (SBU) told ABC News was an operation for a year and a half in creation, the agents used hidden attack drones in containers transported by trucks to attack strategic bases of bombers in the Russian territory.

Moscow has used long -range bombers and its cruise missile armaments to attack Ukrainian cities along the large -scale invasion. The SBU claimed to have hit more than 40 military planes in the attacks, which went to multiple air bases to thousands of miles from the Ukrainian territory. Zelenskyy said that 34% of the airplanes that transport Russia cruise missiles were beaten.

Speaking at a summit of the most Nordic countries of Bucharest in Lithuania on Monday, Zelenskyy said about Sunday’s drone attack: “Russia must realize what it means to suffer losses. That is what will push it towards diplomacy.”

“This is a special moment,” Zelenskyy added. “On the one hand, Russia has begun its summer offensive. But on the other, it is forced to participate in diplomacy. And this is both a challenge and also a real opportunity for all of us. It is an opportunity to end this war.”

The Russian Ministry of Defense framed the operation as “a terrorist attack”, claiming that the strikes were “repelled” in three regions, but pointing out that several airplanes caught fire on the airfields during the attacks in Irkutsk and Murmansk, videos of which the SBU published.

Also on Sunday, the Russian authorities reported the collapse of two railways and the derailment of two trains in regions that border Ukraine, which blamed “explosions.” At least seven people were killed, authorities said.

In one direction on Sunday, Zelenskyy called the attack of Ukrainian drones as a “brilliant operation” and said Russia “suffered really significant losses.” The president framed the attack as a defensive measure.

“We will defend ourselves by all means available to us,” said Zelenskyy. “Not for a single second we wanted this war. We offered the Russians a high fire. Since March 11, the United States proposal of a complete and unconditional fire has been on the table. It was the Russians who chose to continue the war.”

“The pressure is really necessary: ​​Pressure on Russia that should return it to reality,” added Zelenskyy. “Pressure through sanctions. Pressure of our forces. Pressure through diplomacy. Everything must work together.”

Ivan Stupak, a former SBU officer, told ABC News that Ukrainians expect a significant Russian response: “Probably mass attacks with unmanned planes against civilians or using Orsik’s ballistic missiles.”

“I think there will be zero impact on peace negotiations,” Stupak added, citing the ongoing Russian land offensives that move forward and capture, even if at a great cost, more territory in eastern Ukraine, that the Kremlin will expect to take advantage of.

Meanwhile, unmanned aircraft attacks and long -range missiles continued overnight until Monday morning.

The Ukraine Air Force said that Russia launched 80 drones and four missiles into the country during the night, of which 52 were demolished or neutralized. The Air Force reported impacts on 12 locations.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said that demolished 162 Ukrainian drones in nine Russian regions during the night.

Ellie Kaufman and Patrick Reevell of ABC News contributed to this report.