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Not sure what the new proposals are…

Putin announced the continuation of contacts on Ukraine

Including new proposals, the president said

Editorial staff of the TASS website

20:06

updated 20:16

MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/. There are negotiation contacts on the Ukrainian settlement, including new proposals. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering questions from "Vesti" journalist Pavel Zarubin.

"Yes, indeed, there are contacts [in Ukraine], they are established in several directions at once, on several lines. I don't see any secrets here. There are also new proposals," the Russian leader said. 

https://tass.ru/politika/27865959

Mixed results

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FOM: Russians’ trust in Putin has fallen to a war-time low.

3:14 PM, June 26, 2026

Source: FOM

Russians’ trust in President Vladimir Putin has dropped to 69%. This follows from a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation ( FOM ) from June 19 to 21—shortly after the largest Ukrainian attack on Moscow.

Compared to the poll conducted a week earlier, Putin’s trust rating fell by 5 percentage points, to 74%.

The current approval rating of 69% is the lowest level of trust in the president during the entire war. As The Bell points out, even during the mobilization in September 2022, after the retreat from Kherson in November 2022, and during Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny in June 2023, this figure never fell below 74-76% in FOM polls.

At the same time, in mid-May and at the end of March 2026, Putin’s trust rating had already fallen to 71%.

According to the latest poll, the percentage of those who distrust the president also increased over the week, from 15% to 18%. The share of those who positively rate Putin’s performance as president was 71%, up from 75% the previous week.

The share of respondents who positively assess the government’s performance fell by 4 percentage points over the past week, to 44%. This is the lowest level in at least the past year.

The FOM survey also shows that the number of those who noticed an increase in gasoline prices has sharply increased over the past week, from 38% to 48%.

Meanwhile , VTsIOM recorded an increase in Putin’s ratings. The share of those who approve of his performance as president increased from 67.7% to 70.4%. Trust in Putin also increased from 73.3% to 76.7%. The survey was conducted from June 15 to 21.

https://meduza.io/news/2026/06/26/fom-doverie-rossiyan-k-putinu-upalo-do-minimuma-za-vsyu-voynu

Would be interesting if true though why any officials would need this guy to meet Putin is questionable. Still, must be a worry as to how long the army will put up with poor conditions...

A soldier from the Voronezh region recorded an appeal to Putin and threatened him with a mutiny. It received 3.5 million views in just a few hours.

4:45 PM, June 25, 2026

Source: Meduza

Alexander Lunin, a soldier from the Voronezh region who participated in the invasion of Ukraine and blogs on Instagram and other platforms, recorded an appeal to Vladimir Putin.

In four hours, the video garnered more than 3.5 million views and over 125,000 likes on Instagram.

In the recording, Lunin claims that officials, including those from the Ministry of Defense and security agencies, met with him on June 24 and 25. He claims they conveyed a message to the Russian president: "If he doesn't grant a live audience, I'll tell the whole truth about what's happening in our country right now."

However, the blogger did not specify why officials decided to choose him for this mission.

Here's what else Lunin said:

At this moment, tens, hundreds, thousands of our soldiers are sitting in dungeons ( pits – Meduza note ), punished by their commanders. They sit there, rotting, subjected to torture and violence by the so-called Gestapo. For refusing to carry out stupid, suicidal orders. For refusing to hand over their financial resources.

And ultimately, they're reset to zero, declared missing. Vladimir Vladimirovich, pay attention to this, invite me to your office.

The consequences will be very serious. If I don't come to the Kremlin soon and speak live, right next to you, the army will turn its weapons against the Kremlin. I'm just delivering a message.

In another video, Lunin claims that "this isn't a bluff," and that if anything happens to him or his family, "it will be a signal to take action." The blogger is willing to reveal who allegedly visited him and delivered a message for Putin only to the president live on air.

"I'm conveying a message, nothing more. I'm not the leader of the uprising. They came to me for one simple reason: because I can't be bought, because the president has heard me ( what he's referring to is unclear – Meduza's note )," Lunin added, promising a "meat grinder in the country."

https://meduza.io/news/2026/06/25/bloger-iz-voronezhskoy-oblasti-zapisal-obraschenie-k-putinu-i-prigrozil-emu-myatezhom-poluchilos-3-5-milliona-prosmotrov-za-neskolko-chasov

You missed some of his other points:

Russia has better sattelites than Starlink - maybe

Ukraine has very little weapons

Russia needs a system that can repell Ukraines weapoms (even though they don't have many)

Russia needs to be one step ahead in terms of weapons - suggests they're not currently one step ahead of the country he just said has very few weappns?

Bizare - might just be the way its translated but sounds like a playground argument.

nearly 3 year’s since the prigozhin episode. he came out with some corkers:

“there was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of february 24,” prigozhin said.

“the ministry of defence is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there was insane levels of aggression from the ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the whole nato block,” the wagner head said.

“when zelenskiy became president, he was ready for agreements. all that needed to be done was to get off mount olympus and negotiate with him,” he said.

“what was the war for? the war needed for shoigu to receive a hero star … the oligarchic clan that rules russia needed the war,” he said.

“the mentally ill scumbags decided: ‘it’s ok, we’ll throw in a few thousand more russian men as cannon fodder. they’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want,’” prigozhin continued.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/wagner-chief-accuses-moscow-of-lying-to-public-about-ukraine-yevgeny-prigozhin?utm_source=chatgpt.com

and my personal highlight:

“a handful of dip****s decided for some reason that they were so cunning that no one would realize what they were doing with their military exercises, and nobody would stop them when they went to kyiv,” prigozhin said. he added that russia’s army would have succeeded if “the degenerates hadn’t formed extra-long convoys,” given their troops too little ammunition, and sent “naked and barefoot soldiers” into battle.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/23/time-is-running-out?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Makes sense that it could have been Abramovich that met Zelensky a few weeks ago.

https://meduza.io/news/2026/06/07/kreml-biznesmen-kotoryy-vstrechalsya-s-zelenskim-v-kieve-mnogim-izvesten-v-verhovnoy-rade-utverzhdayut-chto-eto-byl-abramovich

Interesting that a meeting happened, reportedly with a message being passed from Zelensky to Putin. This was before the open letter so probably won’t lead to anything immediately but still, shows things can happen behind the scenes.

Seems Putin isn’t ready to meet yet. He’s asking his soldiers to continue “working” aka high numbers being killed and injured each day. He probably still needs the whole of Donbas rather than stopping on the existing line otherwise he can’t show anything for the terrible losses. So his answer seems to be more losses until something changes. Hopefully sense will prevail at some point.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2026/06/05/8037958/

Not linking this to potential talks as it's the 6th one and works look to be essential. But good to see common sense at least. Localised ceasefire agreed around the Zaporizhzhia Power Plant.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/06/05/8037876/

Zelensky offers to meet Putin to end the war in a mutually acceptable 3rd country…

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2026/06/04/8037818/

Peskov says they’ve seen the letter and will report to Putin after his existing visit from the President of Uzbekistan…

https://tass.ru/politika/27654669

Be interesting to see what Putin says.

Does anyone have access to reliable financials covering 2025 for KK? Chat GTP throws out some figures if you ask it too but I can't access the source docs.

Few days old so apologies if old news. They mention lithium which isn’t anything to do with EUA but Pgm’s are on India’s critical mineral list. I’m not suggesting this has anything to do with EUA but any sort of sector news would be better than none.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-russia-advanced-talks-critical-minerals-pact-sources-say-2026-05-12/

Be interesting to see if a meeting actually happens…

"We pushed him a little." Zelensky said that now Putin is "finally ready for real meetings"

17:28, May 10, 2026Source: Meduza

On the second day of the three-day truce, Vladimir Zelensky said that there were no massive attacks from Russia, and Vladimir Putin "says himself that he is finally ready for real meetings".

According to Zelensky, although there were no missile and air strikes, Russian troops continue to be assaulted in the frontline areas. He added that at the front, the Russian army "does not observe silence and does not even try much", and Ukrainian units act in a mirror.

At the same time, Ukraine, as Zelensky said, on May 9 and 10 refrained from long-range actions in response to the absence of Russian massive attacks. But "if the Russians decide to return to a full-fledged war," then Kiev's "sanctions" for this "will be immediately and will be felt," he promised.

In addition, Zelensky said that Ukraine continues to discuss with the American side guarantees of the implementation of agreements - including the exchange of prisoners in the 1000 to 1000 format with Russia. The Ukrainian coordination headquarters has already handed over the lists, according to the President of Ukraine.

Security issues are also being discussed with the United States so that Ukrainian diplomacy has strong positions, Zelensky said. "Now Putin himself says that he is finally ready for real meetings. We pushed him a little, and we prepared for meetings a long time ago, we need to find a format," he said.

https://meduza.io/news/2026/05/10/nemnogo-podtolknuli-my-ego-zelenskiy-zayavil-chto-seychas-putin-nakonets-gotov-k-realnym-vstrecham

What is it with Richard2000 and dramatic hand related commentary. It's slightly unnerving. 👋🥱🫡

** Psychology** - Dyspraxia kicking in.

“the gloves have come off” so many times. It begs the question, how many pairs of gloves are they wearing in the first place or do they take the gloves off then get cold hands and pop them back on 🤷‍♂️🥶🧤

Interesting read about the mood in Russia. Outlet is heavily biased against the authorities but gives an interesting viewpoint nonetheless....

https://meduza.io/feature/2026/04/30/v-strane-izmenilsya-sostav-vozduha

And the BAFTA for commedy posts on the EUA BB goes to....Richard2000. Thank you for distracting us until such time in the future when there are any developments to discuss about EUA.

Furthermore the general stated “we have calibrated our battle plans Based on our lightning progress in Ukraine we calculate to reach London by Spring to Autumn of the year 3079”.

Both are in a difficult situation of their own making. Ironically they need each other’s help to clear up the mess they’ve made.

Interestingly, Azerbaijan and Ukraine have signed agreements on economic cooperation and announced good prospects for joint defence production.

"Azerbaijan and Ukraine mutually support and will continue to support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of their countries in all international organizations," the Azerbaijani head of state noted.

https://www.interfax.ru/world/1085997

Bit awkward for Russia.