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 emphasized that Russia’s peace talks with Ukraine aim for a swift and total Russian victory, rejecting compromise. The recent Istanbul talks yielded only a prisoner swap and limited ceasefire proposals,

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that the point of holding peace talks with Ukraine was to ensure a swift and complete Russian victory. "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,