Medvedev says Russia seeks victory, not compromise, in talks with Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev talks to Vietnamese General Secretary, President Nguyen Phu Trong (not pictured) during their meeting at the Party's headquarter in Hanoi, Vietnam November 19, 2018. Luong Thai Linh/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that the point of holding peace talks with Ukraine was to ensure a swift and complete Russian victory.

"The Istanbul talks are not for striking a compromise peace on someone else's delusional terms but for ensuring our swift victory and the complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime," the hawkish deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council said on Telegram.