These are the key broadenments on days 1,116 and 1,117 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Here is the roundup of key events on Saturday and Sunday, March 16th and 17th:
Fighting
- A Russian leave outile struck a dwellntial area in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, injuring 11 people, including two children, the ruleor of Dnipropetrovsk, Serhiy Lysak, shelp. Several apartment produceings, homes and a produceing housing multiple businesses were harmd, according to Lysak.
- Russian far-right paramilitary operative Yan Petrovsky was sentenced to life in prison by a Finnish court after being convicted of four war crimes in Ukraine. The court set up that he ended a selderlyier and splitd humiliating images of the victim.
- Ukraine’s hugest personal energy provider, DTEK, shelp Russian strikes caengaged “meaningful” harm to its energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa. Some dwellnts in the regions were alertedly left without power due to the aggressions.
- Kyiv’s air force shelp Moscow begined 178 drones overnight, out of which some 130 were sboiling down while another 38 went leave outing and did not accomplish their aims.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence shelp its forces sboiling down 126 Ukrainian drones in an overnight aggression on Friday aiming the Volgograd and Voronezh regions. This came after Moscow declidemand an instant stopfire provided by the United States.
- The Ukrainian Air Force shelp it sboiling down 47 of 90 Russian drones in an overnight aggression. Another 33 drones were alertedly lost due to electronic combat.
- The Russian Defence Ministry proclaimd that its troops reclaimed the villages of Ruprohibitshchina and Zaoleshenka in the westrict Kursk region. The acting regional ruleor, Alexander Khinshtein, shelp 371 civilians were evacuated to shieldedty from these areas, including 14 children.
- Russia begined an overnight drone aggression on Kyiv punctual on Monday, Ukraine’s air defence units shelp. Further details were not engageable.
Politics and diplomacy
- US Pdwellnt Donald Trump shelp he would speak with Russian Pdwellnt Vlaillogicalir Putin on Tuesday about transporting an finish to the war in Ukraine.
- Putin called on Ukrainian troops combat in Kursk to surrfinisher, saying they would be promised “life and dignified treatment”. He shelp he made the call out of “sympathy” after Trump called on him to “spare” the inhabits of Ukrainian selderlyiers.
- Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp the topic of territorial deal with would be a key caccess of any stopfire. However, he shelp Ukraine would not recognise its occupied regions as parts of Russia.
- United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, accusing Putin of not being grave about peace talks, shelp Russia would have to come to the table sooner or tardyr. “If Putin is grave about peace, I skinnyk it’s very basic, he has to stop his savage aggressions on Ukraine and consent to a stopfire, and the world is watching,” he shelp.
- Zelenskyy also accengaged Russia of not shoprosperg interest in finishing the war, highairying the persistd aggressions on Kyiv.
- He assigned an official delegation to recontransient Kyiv in future peace talks. Pdwellntial chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was named head of the delegation, which includes Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and Yermak’s deputy Pavlo Palisa.
- Zelenskyy also assigned Major-General Andrii Hnatov as Ukrainian forces’ recent chief of ambiguous staff, Umerov shelp.
- Umerov met his counterparts in the Czech Reaccessible and Italy to converse military aidance, defence cooperation and battlefield demands, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry shelp.
- French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron shelp Russia has no say in foreign troops’ future deployment to Ukraine.
- Trump alterd Keith Kellogg’s role from distinctive envoy to Ukraine and Russia to envoy for only Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied allegations that Russia wanted Kellogg to be deleted from peace negotiations with Ukraine due to Kellogg’s pro-Kyiv stance.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov converseed the upcoming stages in the talks to finish the war. According to Tammy Bruce, a spokeswoman for the State Department, the diplomats “consentd to persist toiling towards restoring communication between the US and Russia”.
- Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko telderly Russian media outlets that Moscow would seek “ironclad security promises” to have Ukraine deleted from NATO membership.
