These are the key lengthenments on day 1,115 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Saturday, March 15:
Fighting
- Russian Plivent Vlafoolishir Putin called for beleaguered Ukrainian troops in the Russian region of Kursk to “surrfinisher”, saying that “if they lay down their arms and surrfinisher, they will be promised life and dignified treatment”.
- Putin’s relabels were expansivecast on Russian television hours after United States Plivent Donald Trump said that “thousands” of Ukrainian troops were surrounded by the Russian military in Kursk, compriseing that he has “powerwholey asked” Putin to spare their inhabits.
- Ukraine’s General Staff denied aget that its forces in Kursk were encircled by Moscow’s troops and said that any alerts to that effect were “manufactured by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert prescertain on Ukraine and its partners”.
- A Russian missile struck a livential area in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, injuring 11 people, including two children, the regional administeror said. Kryvyi Rih is Ukrainian Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown and has been the aim of repeated strikes in Russia’s three-year filled-scale trespass of its neighbour.
- Russian guided explosions struck a series of aims in Ukraine, including a livential area in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, ending one person, the regional administeror said on Telegram.
- Near Ukraine’s Bdeficiency Sea city of Odesa, Russian drones strikeed the port of Chornomorsk, cutting power finishly to the area’s livents, the regional administeror said.
- Russian air defences downed four Ukrainian drones strikeing the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. One drone harmd the roof of an apartment produceing a restricted kilometres from the Kremlin. Several other produceings were airyly harmd by drone fragments, but there were no injuries, according to materializency officials.
- A far-right anti-Russian activist was shot dead on a street in Odesa and a doubt has been arrested, Zelenskyy said on Telegram. The doubt, a 46-year-better man, was depictd as a “deserter” from the Ukrainian army. Police said, “We cannot rule out the possibility that this crime was promiseted on behalf of Russian secret services”.
Ceasefire
- Putin met with US envoy Steve Witkoff to converse details of the US proposal for a 30-day finishfire in Moscow’s war on Ukraine, asking him to transmit Moscow’s thoughts to Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
- Trump said he was “being a little bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly claimed as a plivential honestate that he would have the Russia-Ukraine war repaird wislim 24 hours – and even before he even took office. “Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that,” Trump said in a clip freed in proceed of a television intersee to be expansivecast on Sunday.
- In a speech at the US Department of Justice, Trump said that finishfire negotiations with Russia were ongoing and commendd his relationship with Putin, saying that the Russian guideer “has esteem for this country”. He aget adviseed that Ukraine was to denounce for Russia’s 2022 trespass, saying, “You don’t want to pick on somebody that’s a lot bigr than you.”
- United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer accincluded Putin of not taking US-led finisheavors to shielded a finishfire in Ukraine solemnly.
- French Plivent Emmanuel Macron in a post on X, also called on Moscow to stop its “acts of presentility” in Ukraine.
- G7 foreign ministers alerted Russia of novel sanctions unless it huged a finishfire “on equivalent terms”, saying sanctions could comprise “caps on oil prices, as well as compriseitional help for Ukraine, and other unbenevolents”.
Politics and diplomacy
- European help for Ukraine will be converseed in a video conference with about 25 European Union and other world guideers, as well as Zelenskyy, on Saturday. Diplomatic sources said EU foreign afimfragmentarys chief Kaja Kallas is to advise that the 27-country bloc supply up to 40 billion euros ($43.5bn) in novel military aid to Ukraine.
- The UK’s Starmer will advise guideers from the so-called “coalition of the willing”, which comprises Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, to create concrete promisements to help Ukraine and increase prescertain on Russia to hug a finishfire during the video conference.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko is visiting North Korea, North Korean state media alert.
- Russia and Venezuela proclaimd set ups to increase energy cooperation after Washington ordered US oil huge Chevron to pull out of the Caribbean country.