Right here is the state of affairs on Wednesday, March 12 :
Ceasefire talks
- Senior officials from the United States and Ukraine met in Saudi Arabia’s port metropolis of Jeddah for 9 hours of talks, after which Kyiv stated it had agreed to simply accept a direct 30-day truce and take steps in direction of restoring long-lasting peace with Moscow, a US-Ukraine joint assertion introduced.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated after the talks the “ball is now in Russia’s court docket”.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the truce as a “optimistic” deal and stated the US now should persuade Russia to simply accept the proposal.
- Following the high-level assembly, Washington introduced that it will immediately lift all military aid suspensions imposed on Ukraine and resume intelligence sharing with Kyiv. Pavlo Palisa, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential workplace, confirmed the resumption of US navy help.
- Responding to the end result of the US-Ukraine talks in Jeddah, Trump stated he hopes Russia agrees to the ceasefire deal, including that US officers will meet their Russian counterparts later this week.
- Regardless of their public conflict on the Oval Workplace final month, Trump stated he would additionally invite Zelenskyy again to the White Home.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Russia expects the US to temporary Moscow on its talks with Ukrainian officers in Saudi Arabia on the proposed ceasefire.
- The Reuters information company reported that Trump’s particular envoy to the Center East, Steve Witkoff, is scheduled to go to Moscow this week to fulfill Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Preventing
- Russia stated its forces have reclaimed 12 settlements and greater than 100sq km (38.6sq miles) of territory within the Kursk area from Ukrainian troops who entered Russia in August 2024 in a shock navy incursion.
- The demise toll in Russia from Ukraine’s barrage of 337 drones on Tuesday has risen to 3, whereas a complete of 18 folks have been injured.
- The demise toll from a Ukrainian strike on a buying centre in Kursk additionally rose from three to 5, the area’s governor, Alexander Khinshtein, stated.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence stated its troops captured the village of Dachne in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area.
- Donetsk regional Governor Vadym Filashkin stated six folks have been killed – together with two kids – and 7 others have been wounded in Russian assaults.
- Ukraine’s Sea Ports Authority stated in a put up on Fb, which it later deleted, {that a} Russian missile assault on a grain vessel within the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa killed 4 folks and left the ship broken.
- Ukraine’s air defence forces have been mobilised to repel an in a single day Russian air assault on Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russian Ministry of International Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated the visiting secretary-general of the Organisation for Safety and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Feridun Sinirlioglu, shall be delivered to a website in Moscow the place Ukrainian drones have been shot down throughout a large-scale raid on Tuesday, state information company RIA Novosti reported.
- Zakharova additionally stated Ukraine’s drone assault on Moscow indicated Kyiv was shedding on the battlefield, main it to immediately assault civilian areas.
- Russia’s Chief of Basic Workers Valery Gerasimov visited troops in Kursk and awarded medals to troopers for efficiently ousting Ukrainian forces from the territory, the Defence Ministry stated.
