Dozens of Russian soldiers were granted approximately $ 200,000 each for each of them to help shoot down a F-16 fighter plane in the United States in Ukraine.
The 12 soldiers were granted money at a ceremony near the Russian Bakrani border after the Russian oil giant Furry, his virtue last year in an attempt to encourage the destruction of Western equipment, said Kremlin State Media Tass said on Friday.
“Fores handed over its previous promise to transfer 15 million rubles to members of the Russian armed forces for their first drop in 16 in the private military operations area,” the company boasted in a statement.
Ukraine obtained the first delivery of F-16 warplanes from the United States last summer under the administration of Biden, but has already reported the loss of three of them.
The huge rewards were eliminated, on Friday, Kiev resisted pressure from Moscow and Washington to abide by another round of peace talks with Russia on June 2 – he insisted that she first need to see the proposals that Russian negotiators are planning to apply.
For his part, President Trump urged Moscow and Kiev again and again to reach a deal that will finish three years of bloodshed.
“In order for the meeting to be meaningful, its agenda must be clear, and negotiations must be properly prepared,” wrote Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski on X.
He said: “Unfortunately, Russia is doing everything in its power to ensure that there are no possible meetings that do not provide any results.”
However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian delegation would travel to Türkiye and was ready for talks with Ukraine on Monday.
“At the present time, everyone focuses on Russia-Ukraine's direct negotiations. A list of the conditions for temporary engineering is developed,” Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
This comes after the US Deputy Ambassador John Kelly told the US Security Council a day ago that the US-backed proposal-including land lands for 30 days, the sea and critical infrastructure-was “the best possible result for Russia.”
“We want to work with Russia, including this peace initiative and an economic package. There is no military solution to this conflict,” Kelly told the Security Council. “The deal presented now is the best possible results for Russia. President Putin must take over the deal.”
“If Russia takes a wrong decision to continue this catastrophic war, the United States will have to consider retreating from our negotiating efforts to end this conflict,” he added, warning that Washington could impose more sanctions on Russia.
Kelly also condemned Russia's recent attack on Ukraine – on the pretext that the attacks did not show a “desire for peace”.
He said: “We will judge Russia's seriousness towards ending the war, not only through the contents of that paper, but more importantly, through Russia's actions.”
With wires after
