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**The Pearl Harbor example suggests what? Given the fact the US nuked Japan. Twice.**

[**Satellite Images Show Aftermath of ‘Pearl Harbor’ Strike on Russia**](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article307691965.html)

*The claims could not be independently verified and Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry and the Kremlin for comment.*

**[Over the top headlines and very dramatic rhetoric feature large in US/Ukraine media](https://uawire.org/operation-spider-web-ukraine-claims-destruction-of-13-russian-aircraft-in-bold-drone-strike)**

> ***Battered, beleaguered, tired, and outnumbered, Ukrainians have, at minimal cost, in complete secrecy, and over vast distances, destroyed or damaged dozens, perhaps more, of Russia’s strategic bombers,” he said.***

**Interesting, but nor surprising, is claimed numbers of destroyed bombers has decreased dramatically from yesterday’s claim of 40 to just 13**

**Operation ‘Spider Web’: Ukraine claims destruction of 13 Russian aircraft in bold drone strike**

> **Or as reported “At least 13″**
> **A massive drone attack has reportedly` destroyed at least 13 Russian aircraft` at military airbases,**

[**Zelensky calls for more sanctions**](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine-and-russia-quickly-end-their-latest-round-of-direct-peace-talks-in-istanbul)

> Zelenskyy said that “if the Istanbul meeting brings nothing, that clearly means strong new sanctions are urgently, urgently needed” against Russia.

###### [No ceasefire agreement reached, at best an agreement to exchange prisoners](https://news.am/eng/news/885861.html)


##### Below are some additional excerpts included among the 4 linked articles

> ISTANBUL (AP) — **Delegations from Russia and Ukraine ended their latest peace talks Monday in Turkey after just over an hour, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian state media said.**
> 
> **Speaking in Vilnius, Lithuania, Zelenskyy said both sides “exchanged documents through the Turkish side, and we are preparing a new release of prisoners of the war.”**
> 
> **Expectations were low for any breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war** after a string of stunning attacks over the weekend.

**We’re they lower than usual or than had been expected because of the “stunning attacks”?? I don’t think so**.

> Kyiv officials said a surprise drone attack Sunday destroyed more than 40 warplanes (**we know that is 13 planes per latest reports)** at air bases deep inside Russia, including the remote Arctic, Siberian and Far East regions more than 7,000 kilometers (4,300 miles) from Ukraine.
> 
> The complex and unprecedented raid, which struck simultaneously in three time zones, took over a year and a half to prepare and was “a major slap in the face for Russia’s military power,” said Vasyl Maliuk, the head of the Ukrainian security service who led its planning.
> 
> Zelenskyy called it a “brilliant operation” that would go down in history. The operation destroyed or heavily damaged nearly a third of Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet, according to Ukrainian officials.
> 
> **Recent comments by senior officials in both countries indicate they remain far apart on the key conditions for stopping the war.**
> 
> The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said Sunday that **“Russia is attempting to delay negotiations and prolong the war in order to make additional battlefield gains.”**
> 
> Zelenskyy said the setbacks for the Kremlin would help force it to the negotiating table, even as its pursues a summer offensive on the battlefield.
> 
> ***“Russia must feel what its losses mean. That is what will push it toward diplomacy,”*** he said Monday in Vilnius, Lithuania, meeting with leaders from the Nordic nations and countries on NATO’s eastern flank.

**Is that what Zelensky thinks? I don’t know. Too much drugs?**