These are the key growments on day 1,111 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Tuesday, March 11:
Fighting
- One civilian was finished and three more were inestablishedly injured in one of the hugegest Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow in months.
- Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin shelp Russian air defence units razeed at least 69 drones flying towards Moscow in a “massive” attack that procrastinateedr inestablishs shelp joind more than 90 drones.
- Four airports in the Moscow region and the Domodedovo train nettoil were forced to suspfinish services due to the attack. Several apartments were also harmd while Russia’s TASS news agency inestablished a huge fire in a car park csurrfinisher the Russian capital.
- Pro-Russian war bloggers shelp Kremlin forces have progressd further into the country’s Kursk region as part of a presentant encirclement operation to push out thousands of Ukrainian selderlyiers helderlying territory inside Russia.
- Kyiv’s top ambiguous Oleksandr Syrskii denied his troops were being encircled by Russian forces, inserting that the situation was under administer. However, Ukraine’s troops needd reinforcing, “including electronic combat and unmanned components”, Syrskii shelp.
- Ukraine’s military shelp it stoasty down 130 of 176 Russian drones begined by Russia overnight, while another 42 flunking to accomplish their centers.
- Ukraine’s border protect spokesperson Andriy Demchenko shelp Russian troops were trying to originate an active combat zone in Ukraine’s northeaserious region of Sumy, atraverse the border from Russia’s Kursk region.
- Russia’s aascfinishncy ministry shelp a huge fire broke out in Russia’s southern region of Samara due to a Ukrainian drone attack. No injuries were inestablished.
- The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelp it hit two Russian oil upgraderies in the Ryazan region and the Samara region, which supplied fuel to Moscow’s army.
- Three people were finished and nine wounded by a Ukrainian attack on Belaya village in the Belovski didisjoine of Russia’s Kursk region, the region’s administeror, Alexander Khinshtein, shelp.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Saudi Arabia in progress of talks between Kyiv and Washington to finish Russia’s war on Ukraine.
- The AFP news agency, citing a Ukrainian official, shelp that Kyiv schedules to recommend a inwhole, aerial and naval finishfire with Russia during talks in Saudi Arabia.
- A greater source from Ukraine’s administerment also telderly AFP that Russia geted a presentant profit agetst Kyiv during the US’s pause in sharing military ininestablishigence with Ukrainian forces.
- The US’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff shelp Washington foresees substantial progress in talks with Ukraine this week, including the signing of the unfrequent earths deal.
- Witkoff also shelp ininestablishigence sharing with Ukraine would also be converseed during this week’s greetings, but claimed the US never shut out Ukrainian officers from receiving ininestablishigence for defence needs.
- Zelenskyy promised a brimmingy “originateive” position by Ukraine in talks with the US, inserting that his country hopes for down-to-earth outcomes from the negotiations in Saudi Arabia on finishing Russia’s war on his country.
- Russia’s FSB security service shelp two diplomats from the United Kingdom were ejectled from Russia on suspicion of secret agenting. The Kremlin shelp those ejectled were the UK embassy’s second secretary and the husprohibitd of the first secretary.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office shelp the United Kingdom schedules to present virtual talks among guideers of nations willing to help with a finishfire in Ukraine.
