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The US President said a peace deal was now \u2018up to Russia\u2019, but Moscow sources said the agreement was \u2018difficult to accept\u2019
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US President Donald Trump said a peace deal is \u201cup to Russia now\u201d, but Moscow sources say Russian president Vladimir Putin finds the 30-day ceasefire agreement<\/a> between Washington and Kyiv <\/a>and \u201cdifficult to accept\u201d.
Officials from Ukraine and the US yesterday agreed on the ceasefire,<\/a> alongside a restoration of US military aid<\/a> and intelligence sharing to Ukraine, during talks in Saudi Arabia.
Moscow <\/a>would need to hash out the terms of the ceasefire and obtain some form of security guarantees, a senior source told Reuters. “It is difficult for Putin to agree to this in its current form,\u201d the source said, adding that \u201cPutin has a strong position because Russia is advancing.”
Speaking in a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, Mr Zelensky said he has \u201cno trust\u201d in Russia. \u201cI have emphasised this many times, none of us trust the Russians,\u201d he said.
Kyiv supports the Trump administration\u2019s push for peace as soon as possible, Mr Zelensky added, and sees the resumption of US military aid and intelligence sharing as very positive.
It comes after US secretary of state Marco Rubio – who was part of the delegation in Saudi Arabia – told reporters in Ireland that US and Russia will discuss the agreement today. <\/a><\/a>
About 286,000 Ukrainian civilians remain in Donetsk Oblast as mandatory evacuation in the region continues.
Dmytro Petlin, head of the department of operational and emergency service for the region, said: \u201cEvacuation measures continue. As of yesterday (11.03.25), about 1,214,000 civilians were evacuated from the government-controlled areas of Donetsk<\/a> region.
\u201cAs of yesterday, about 286,000 civilians remain in the territory of the region controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.\u201d
A source close to the Ukrainian government said the mood in the Zelensky camp after the talks was upbeat and that there was a feeling Russia had been caught off guard by the ceasefire proposal.
“It’s a strong check on the chess board,” the source said.
A former senior Ukrainian security official who requested anonymity said things had so far developed predictably in terms of a phased peace process.
“However, it is likely that Russia will derail the agreement, and we will have to watch the American reaction. The Russians may offend Trump with their outbursts. And then we will have a chance for strong arms assistance.”
President Vladimir Putin has visited the western Russian region of Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
Appearing on Russian state television dressed in a pixilated military uniform, Putin visited a control centre in Kursk region used by Russian troops.
“Indeed, in the shortest possible time is to finally defeat the enemy entrenched in the Kursk region and still conducting defensive actions here,” Putin said, addressing Russia’s top military brass.
Putin heard a report from Valery Gerasimov, head of the Russian General Staff, who told him that Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region were now surrounded.
“Its systematic destruction is underway,” Gerasimov said.
Putin said Russian forces should completely liberate the region from the Ukrainian troops as soon as possible, the news agencies reported.
Putin said Russia should treat Ukrainian soldiers captured as prisoners of war in Kursk Region as terrorists.
“People who are in the Kursk region, who commit crimes against civilians here, who oppose our armed forces, law enforcement agencies and special services, … are the people we should certainly treat as terrorists,” Putin said, adding that Russia does not intend to extend the Geneva Conventions to foreigners fighting on Ukraine’s side.
Ukraine’s top army commander said on Thursday that Kyiv’s troops will continue operation in Russia’s Kursk region “as long as appropriate and necessary” and added that fighting continued in and around town of Sudzha.
“(Ukrainian) defence forces units manoeuvre to more favourable positions, if necessary,” Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Facebook adding that saving soldiers lives is a priority.
Ukrainian troops appeared on the point of losing their hard-won foothold inside Russia’s Kursk region on Wednesday as Moscow claimed further advances there and military bloggers on both sides said Kyiv’s forces were withdrawing.
Ukraine sprang one of the biggest shocks of the war<\/u><\/a> on August 6 last year by storming across the border and grabbing a chunk of land inside Russia, boosting citizens’ morale and gaining a potential bargaining chip.
Vladimir Putin says Russian troops should defeat enemy in Kursk and completely liberate the region. He added any captured soldiers will be treated as terrorists, according to Interfax.
A total of 66 clashes were recorded on the frontline today, the Russian army is actively attacking Pokrovsk and Torets, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) said on Wednesday.
“The Defense Forces… repelled 17 enemy attacks, ten clashes are still ongoing,” the General Staff said in a summary on Telegram.
In Pokrovsk, the Russian forces s have already carried out 27 attacks on Ukrainian positions.
Nine enemy attacks took place in Toretsk axis, four clashes are currently ongoing.
The European Parliament (EP) has strongly condemned the executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops.
“[The EP] strongly condemns the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces; calls for the EU, its Member States and international partners to increase pressure on Russia to comply with its international obligations, particularly the Geneva Convention, and allow international organisations access to prisoners,” according to a resolution in support of Ukraine, which was voted in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
The EP also condemned “devastating impact of Russia\u2019s war on children; calls for increased EU support for children’s education, healthcare, mental health services, and for child protection, including trauma recovery and safe learning environments.”
Increasing the ability of Ukrainian weapons to overcome Russian electronic warfare and air defense remains a key issue to winning the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address on Wednesday.
“First of all \u2013 regarding our drones and long-range strikes by Ukrainian drones\u2026 We managed to discuss many technical details today. The key thing is to increase the ability of our weapons to overcome Russian electronic warfare and air defence,” he said.
“Our Ukrainian drone production and the constant modernisation of drones is one of the key parts of the Russian deterrence system, which is needed to guarantee Ukraine’s security in the long term, and it will also be our international advantage \u2013 how we will be able to export security after this war.\u201d
He said there is already international interest in Ukrainian developments, capabilities and technology production.
“Ukrainians have shown in this war how much drones can do to protect positions and save people’s lives, they have shown how important it is to constantly develop the unmanned component. Of course, this will be our, in particular, economic advantage in relations with other partners. But after the war. Now we need to significantly increase the effectiveness of the use of Ukrainian weapons, and everything that will be achieved for Ukrainian security now will work for Ukraine for years and decades.\u201d
Two Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers carried out a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, state-run RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, quoting the defence ministry.
Fighter jets from foreign countries accompanied the Russian planes during certain stages of their flight, which lasted more than four hours, the ministry said, though it did not specify which countries.
Other Baltic littoral states including Finland, Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are all NATO members.
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