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>I don't see how the war dead they had would have at all pushed Putin towards Istanbul meeting. Russia has plenty of freezers that they stole from Ukraine.
The charade Putin was going through was courtesy of the (Z)elensky regime. They were the ones who needed Istanbul to cover their butts. No one in Russia was retarded enough to want to get Johnson'd again.
>I never claimed otherwise. "Going along with the circus" does not mean compromising on Russia's basic demands.
It was always about practical conditions, not a single minute had to be wasted to show good will, and no such thing was on the table.
It's the same as when we and the Soviets did "negotiations" in Stalingrad.