Russia seeks destruction of Ukraine and victory not compromise in latest talks: Dmitry Medvedev

A top Russian politician has declared his country seeks victory and the “destruction” of Ukraine, not compromise, throwing this week’s peace talks in Turkey between the two countries into chaos.Former Russian President and top ally of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, also implied that Russia would exact revenge over Ukraine’s strikes against its strategic bomber bases Sunday.“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,” Medvedev, the Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram Tuesday, using a common Moscow attack line of branding President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government as fascists.“That’s what the Russian Memorandum published yesterday is about,” he said, referring to a set of demands presented to Ukraine by the Russian delegation at Monday’s peace talks in Istanbul.Those stringent Russian demands include Ukraine handing over more territory, becoming a neutral country, accepting limits on the size of its army and holding new elections.“Retribution is inevitable,” he added, apparently in reference to the devastating drone strikes over the weekend, which reportedly wiped out more than a third of Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers and caused $7 billion of damage to Putin’s defenses....