These are the main developments per day 1,115 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
This is the situation on Saturday 15 March:
Fighting
- Russian President Vladimir Putin called The besieged Ukrainian forces In the Russian region of Kursk to “surrender”, saying: “If they put their arms and surrender, then life and generous treatment will be guaranteed.”
- Putin’s comments on Russian television were broadcast hours after US President Donald Trump said that “thousands” of Ukrainian forces were surrounded by the Russian army in Corsak, adding that he “strongly asked” Putin to spare their lives.
- The Ukrainian General Staff once again denied that its forces in Kursk have been cordoned off by the Moscow forces and said that any reports in this sense “fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and pressure on Ukraine and its partners.”
- The regional ruler said that a Russian missile struck a residential area in the city of Kreifi Riera in the center of Kreifi Rie, which resulted in the injury of 11 people, including two children. Kryvyi Rih is a Ukrainian hometown Volodymyr Zelenskyy The target of repeated attacks In Russia’s three -year invasion of its neighbor.
- The regional ruler said in a telegram that Russian bombs directed to a series of targets in Ukraine, including a residential area in the southern Ukraine, killing one person.
- The regional ruler said that near the city of Odessa in the Black Sea of Ukraine, Russian drones attacked the Chornomorsk port, and cut the authority entirely to the residents of the region.
- The mayor of Moscow Serge Sobianin said that the Russian air defenses shot down four Ukrainian drones attacking the Russian capital. One drone on the surface of an apartment was attached to a few kilometers from the Kremlin. Many other buildings were slightly damaged by drones, but there were no injuries, according to emergency officials.
- Zelinski said in a telegram that a right -wing horizon of the Russians had been shot dead on a street in Odessa and a suspect was arrested. The suspect, a 46 -year -old man, was described as “two targets” of the Ukrainian army. “We cannot exclude the possibility of this crime on behalf of Russian secret services,” the police said.
cease-fire
- Putin met with the American envoy Steve Witkev to discuss the details of the American proposal The ceasefire for 30 days In the Moscow war on Ukraine, he is asked to transfer Moscow’s ideas to Washington, Carmlin Dmitry Peskov said.
- Trump said he was “a little satirical” when he repeatedly claimed as a presidential candidate that he would replace Russia’s war of Ukraine within 24 hours-even before he took office. “Well, I was a little satirical when I said,” Trump said in a clip before a television interview broadcast on Sunday.
- In a speech at the US Department of Justice, Trump said that stopping negotiations with Russia was ongoing and praised his relationship with Putin, saying that the Russian leader “respects this country.” He once again suggested that Ukraine was blame to invade Russia 2022, saying: “You do not want to choose someone who is older than you.”
- UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer Putin was accused of not taking US -led attempts to ensure a ceasefire in Ukraine seriously.
- French President Emmanuel Macron also called in a post on X, Moscow to stop “violence” in Ukraine.
- Foreign ministers of the seven group of Russia warned of new sanctions unless the ceasefire “equally accepted”, saying that the sanctions could include “covers on oil prices, in addition to additional support for Ukraine and other means.”
Politics and diplomacy
- European support for Ukraine will be discussed at a video conference with about 25 European Union and other world leaders, as well as Zelinski, on Saturday. Diplomatic sources said that the head of the European Union Foreign Affairs Kaja Kalas suggests that the bloc of 27 countries reach 40 billion euros (43.5 billion dollars) in new military aid to Ukraine.
- Starmer in the UK will urge leaders of the so -called “coalition from the wishing”, which includes Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, to make tangible obligations to support Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia to accept the ceasefire during the video conference.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister André Rodenko is visiting a report of the government media in North Korea.
- Russia and Venezuela announced plans to increase energy cooperation after Washington has ordered the American giant to Chevron to withdraw from the Caribbean country.
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