00:00Russian war veteran says war is lost as Ukraine prepares for Trump meeting.
00:05Kiev slash Moscow, July 6th. Russian officials have begun urging President Vladimir Putin to
00:12end the war immediately, warning that continued fighting will only worsen Russia's situation
00:17as Ukraine's long-range strikes cripple the country's energy infrastructure,
00:22oil transport, and military positions. Danil Tulenkov, a former Storm Z convict soldier
00:29whose war memoir the Kremlin has promoted in Russian schools, has told Russians that the war
00:34is lost. Speaking to journalism students at a Russian university, Tulenkov said Moscow's window
00:40to negotiate favorable terms closed about a year ago, and Russia now faces a choice between settling
00:46now or facing something worse later. He also floated the real endpoint under discussion,
00:51a return to the 1991 borders. The war is already lost. It happened, and it is not strange.
00:59We should have thought about acceptable terms a year ago, Tulenkov said, warning that current
01:04policies will leave consequences for future generations of Russians.
01:09Putin's battlefield claims face rebuttal. President Putin told Trump during their phone
01:15call that Russian forces had captured the strategic city of Kostyantinivka in the Donetsk region,
01:20an important step in ongoing operations in the Donbass. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr
01:27Zelensky and the general staff have categorically denied the claim.
01:32Of course, that is not true. It is just another Russian lie, Zelensky said. Ukrainian forces continue
01:39to defend the city, despite Russian infantry infiltrating some areas. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
01:45Peskov has said the war in Ukraine would end the very next day if Kyiv orders its troops to withdraw
01:52from areas controlled by Russia. However, Kyiv insists it will not cede territories Moscow could
01:58not win on the battlefield. 430 drones target Moscow before NATO summit. In the largest drone
02:06attack on Moscow since the war began, Ukraine launched more than 430 drones toward the Russian
02:12capital between the evening of July 6th and the morning of July 7th. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said
02:19most were intercepted at a distance, with 36 shot down as they approached the city. The attack came
02:25just before the NATO summit in Ankara, where President Trump is scheduled to meet with Zelensky
02:30on Wednesday. A senior U.S. official said Trump feels a real sense of urgency to end the war,
02:36noting that the battlefield has clearly frozen over the last couple of months,
02:40and neither side is making a lot of progress. Critical missile shortage leaves Kyiv vulnerable.
02:47Ukraine's inability to intercept Russian ballistic missiles has exposed a critical shortage of U.S.-made
02:53Patriot interceptor missiles. In the July 6th attack on Kyiv, which killed at least 28 people,
03:00Ukraine's Air Force was unable to shoot down any of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia.
03:06We simply don't have the missiles. We have nothing to use against ballistic missiles,
03:11said Sergei Flash Beskretznov, a military expert and advisor to Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov.
03:18President Zelensky called for strong decisions at the NATO summit, saying it is simply absurd that in
03:24the modern world, production has still not been scaled up to the level actually required to protect
03:30people from ballistic terror.
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