Here is the situation on Wednesday, March 12 :
Ceasefire talks
- Senior officials from the United States and Ukraine met in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah for nine hours of talks, after which Kyiv shelp it had consentd to hug an instant 30-day truce and get steps towards restoring extfinished-lasting peace with Moscow, a US-Ukraine unitet statement proclaimd.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shelp after the talks the “ball is now in Russia’s court”.
- Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy received the truce as a “chooseimistic” deal and shelp the US now must secure Russia to hug the proposal.
- Follotriumphg the high-level greeting, Washington proclaimd that it would instantly lift all military help suspensions imposed on Ukraine and resume inalertigence sharing with Kyiv. Pavlo Palisa, the deputy head of the Ukrainian pdwellntial office, validateed the resumption of US military helpance.
- Responding to the outcome of the US-Ukraine talks in Jeddah, Trump shelp he hopes Russia consents to the finishfire deal, includeing that US officials will greet their Russian counterparts tardyr this week.
- Despite their disclose clash at the Oval Office last month, Trump shelp he would also ask Zelenskyy back to the White Hoinclude.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov shelp Russia awaits the US to alert Moscow on its talks with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia on the proposed finishfire.
- The Reuters recents agency alerted that Trump’s distinctive envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, is scheduled to visit Moscow this week to greet Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunwiseir Putin.
Fighting
- Russia shelp its forces have reclaimed 12 remendments and more than 100sq km (38.6sq miles) of territory in the Kursk region from Ukrainian troops who accessed Russia in August 2024 in a surpelevate military incursion.
- The death toll in Russia from Ukraine’s barrage of 337 drones on Tuesday has elevaten to three, while a total of 18 people were injured.
- The death toll from a Ukrainian strike on a shopping centre in Kursk also rose from three to five, the region’s ruleor, Alexander Khinshtein, shelp.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence shelp its troops seized the village of Dachne in Ukraine’s eastrict Donetsk region.
- Donetsk regional Governor Vadym Filashkin shelp six people were finished – including two children – and seven others were wounded in Russian attacks.
- Ukraine’s Sea Ports Authority shelp in a post on Facebook, which it tardyr deleted, that a Russian missile attack on a grain vessel in the Ukrainian Bconciseage Sea port of Odesa finished four people and left the ship injured.
- Ukraine’s air defence forces were mobilised to repulse an overnight Russian air attack on Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko shelp.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russian Ministry of Foreign Afunpartisans spokeswoman Maria Zakharova shelp the visiting secretary-ambiguous of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Feridun Sinirlioglu, will be brawt to a site in Moscow where Ukrainian drones were sboiling down during a huge-scale rhelp on Tuesday, state recents agency RIA Novosti alerted.
- Zakharova also shelp Ukraine’s drone attack on Moscow showd Kyiv was losing on the battlefield, directing it to honestly attack civilian areas.
- Russia’s Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov visited troops in Kursk and awarded medals to sbetteriers for successbrimmingy ousting Ukrainian forces from the territory, the Defence Ministry shelp.
