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,

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, declared this week that Moscow seeks “swift victory and the complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime” in Ukraine, not a “compromise peace on someone else’s delusional terms.