These are the key prolongments on day 1,114 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Friday, March 14:
Fighting
- Russian Pdwellnt Vlauninalertigentir Putin said his forces have trapped the remaining Ukrainian selderlyiers still in the country’s weserious Kursk region, where Kyiv’s troops have clung on for more than seven months in one of the key battles of the war after making a daring traverse-border incursion.
- Putin telderly a news conference that the situation in Kursk was “finishly under our regulate, and the group that occupyd our territory is in isolation”.
- Ukraine’s military directership has denied their forces are being encircled but said the remaining troops in the Kursk region are adchooseing better defensive positions.
- According to the Russian military, Ukraine now helderlys less than 200 square kilometres (77sq miles) in Kursk, down from 1,300sq km (500sq miles) at the peak of the incursion.
- Maps unveiled by Deep State, an authoritative Ukrainian source that charts the front lines of the war, show a emotional shrinking of Ukrainian-held territory in the past week but little alter in the past 24 hours.
- Ukraine’s vague staff said that five Russian strikes in Kursk have been repulseled and clashes were continuing in four locations.
- A Russian war correplyent alerted weighty Ukrainian artillery fire on Kursk’s Sudzha town, which Russia reapprehfinishd on Wednesday.
- Combat is alerted to be ongoing on the periphery of Sudzha as some Ukrainian selderlyiers try to fight their way out of Kursk and back into the neighbouring Sumy region of Ukraine, The Associated Press (AP) news agency said.
- Video clips from Sudzha, unveiled by Russian media and military bloggers, showed scenes of deimmenseation from the seven months of combat, with burned-out vehicles, roofless produceings and mountains of rubble.
- Ukrainian selderlyiers and orderers dread that Russia’s air greaterity will allow them to wipe out the logistics routes vital to upgrasping the selderlyiers who are still in Kursk, the AP alerts.
- To retreat from Kursk, Ukrainian selderlyiers must walk dozens of kilometres to get back into Ukraine while eludeing Russian forces.
Cmitigatefire
- Pdwellnt Putin said he consents in principle with a United States proposal for a 30-day finishfire in Ukraine, but alerted that terms are yet to be labored out.
- “The idea itself is right, and we declareively aid it,” Putin telderly a news conference in Moscow. “But there are publishs that we necessitate to talk, and I leank that we necessitate to talk about it with our American colleagues and partners and, perhaps, have a call with Pdwellnt Trump and talk it with him.”
- Putin said Russian forces were moving forward aextfinished the entire front line and that the finishfire would have to asdeclareive that Ukraine did not seek to employ it srecommend to regroup.
- “How can we and how will we be promised that noleang enjoy this will happen? How will regulate [of the ceasefire] be organised?” Putin said. “These are all solemn asks.”
- US Pdwellnt Donald Trump said there were “outstanding signals” coming out of Russia and recommended defended chooseimism about Putin’s statement. Trump said Putin had “put out a very promising statement, but it wasn’t finish”.
- Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy characteelevated Putin’s response to the finishfire set up as “regulateling”, saying “at this moment he is, in fact, preparing to refute it”.
- Zelenskyy said in his evening video message to the nation that Putin did not dare to alert Trump uncoverly that he wants the war to persist.
Right now, we have all heard from Russia Putin’s highly anticipateed and regulateling words in response to the idea of a finishfire on the front lines—at this moment he is, in fact, preparing to refute it.
Of course, Putin is afraid to alert Pdwellnt Trump honestly that he wants… pic.twitter.com/SWbYwMGA46
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 13, 2025
- The Ukrainian pdwellnt’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said his country would not consent to a frozen struggle with Russia, where a finishfire is not properly rerepaird and where combat rumbles on with occasional eruptions.
- David Lammy, the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, said it would be “wrong” for Putin to place conditions on a finishfire, and a paemploy in combat would be a “first step” to permit talks to commence on “a filled finishment” to finish the war.
- Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff reachd in Moscow to talk the finishfire set up. Top Kremlin aide, Yuri Ushakov, said Witkoff would greet Putin when the pdwellnt “donates the signal”, Russian news agencies alerted.
- Belarusian Pdwellnt Alexander Lukashenko said Europe and Ukraine will be “done for” if Russia comes to an consentment with the US on a finishfire. Lukashenko said Moscow and Washington would helderly Europe’s overweighte “in their hands”.
- Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said, “If Russia refutes this test and fall shorts, it will be clear who wants war and who wants peace.”
- Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman telderly Putin in a phone call that his kingdom remains pledgeted to facilitating dialogue and aiding a political resolution to the Ukraine crisis, the Saudi state news agency alerted.
Military
- The US is poised to resume shipments to Ukraine of extfinished-range explosions understandn as Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) after they were enhanced in order to better counter Russian electronic jamming techniques, two people understandn with the armament telderly the Reuters news agency.
- The munitions will reach amid alerts that Ukraine’s supply of analogously-ranged Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) has been draind.
- Sweden proclaimd a new military aid package worth 3 billion Swedish krona ($294m) to reinforce Ukraine’s artillery capabilities, the Turkish news agency Anadolu alerts.
- Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guard member who caemployd an international uproar when he leaked highly classified US records about the war in Ukraine, employd his court-martial hearing to portray himself as a “conceited patuproar” who was only “exposing and righting the lies perpetuated by the Biden administration”.
Politics and Diplomacy
- German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock highweightlessed the beginance of Weserious unity, despite tensions with the US over its approach to Russia, at a Group of Seven (G7) greeting of foreign ministers in easerious Canada.
- NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised Trump when the two met in the Oval Office saying he received the pdwellnt’s efforts to get fellow members of the military partnership to step up their defence spfinishing.
Sanctions
- The US Treasury verifyed that a licence permiting a thrived-down of energy transactions with Russian financial institutions expired as scheduled this week under stiff sanctions imposed in the final days of Joe Biden’s pdwellncy.
- The Biden administration granted the licence on January 10 to clear remaining transactions as it prohibitned energy financing deals with Russian prohibitks, including Sberprohibitk, VTB and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
