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Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 1.114 | Russia-Ukraine was news

These are the most important developments on day 1.114 of the Russia War against Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Friday, March 14th:

Battle

  • The Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his armed forces had caught the remaining Ukrainian soldiers who are still in the western course region of the country, where Kyiv's troops stuck for more than seven months in one of the key battles of the war after a daring cross-border adaptation.
  • Putin told a press conference that the situation in Kursk is “isolated under our control and the group that penetrates into our territory.
  • The military leadership of Ukraine has contested that their armed forces are circled, but the remaining troops in the Kursk region take up better defense bodies.
  • According to the Russian military, Ukraine now holds less than 200 square kilometers (77 m²) in Kursk, of 1,300 m² (500 square miles) at the height of the idea.
  • Maps published by Deep State, a relevant Ukrainian source that represents the front lines of the war, a dramatic shrinking of the Ukrainian territory last week, but little change in the last 24 hours.
  • The general staff of Ukraine said that five Russian attacks were repelled in Kursk and the clashes were continued at four locations.
  • A Russian war correspondent reported on a severe Ukrainian artillery fire in Course's Sudzha City, which Russia recaptured on Wednesday.
  • The struggle should not yet be completed at the periphery of Sudzha, as some Ukrainian soldiers are trying to fight out of Kursk and return to the Ukrainian region of Sumy to neighboring Sumy region, said the Associated Press news agency.
  • Video clips by Sudzha, published by Russian media and military bloggers, showed scenes of devastation from the seven months of the fight with burned -out vehicles, roofless buildings and mountains of ruins.
A Russian soldier goes along a destroyed street in the Malayny Loknya settlement, which was recently recovered by the Ukrainian armed forces of Russia's military in the Kursk region, Russia [Handout/Russian Defence Ministry via Reuters]
  • The Ukrainian soldiers and commanders fear that the Russia's air superiority will enable them to be of crucial importance for the maintenance of the soldiers who are still in Kursk, reports the AP.
  • In order to withdraw from Kursk, Ukrainian soldiers have to run dozens of kilometers to return to Ukraine and at the same time avoid Russian armed forces.

armistice

  • President Putin said that he generally agreed with a proposal by the United States for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but warned that the conditions do not yet have to be worked out.
  • “The idea itself is correct and we will certainly support it,” said Putin of a press conference in Moscow. “But there are problems that we have to discuss, and I think we have to talk to our American colleagues and partners about it and maybe have a call with President Trump and have to discuss with him.”
  • Putin said the Russian armed forces moved along the entire front line and the ceasefire must ensure that Ukraine not only tries to simply group it again.
  • “How can we and how are we guaranteed that nothing of the kind will happen? How will it control? [of the ceasefire] be organized? “Putin said.” These are all serious questions. “
  • US President Donald Trump said that there were “good signals” from Russia and offer a guarded optimism about Putin's statement. Trump said Putin “published a promising statement, but it was not completely”.
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Putin's reaction to the armistice plan as “manipulative” and said: “At that moment he actually prepares to reject it”.
  • Zelenskyy said in his evening video message to the nation that Putin didn't dare to openly say Trump that he wants the war to be continued.
  • The Ukrainian President, Andriy Yermak, said that his country would not agree with a frozen conflict with Russia in which a ceasefire is not properly solved and where it fights with occasional outbreaks.
  • David Lammy, the Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom, said it was “wrong” that Putin would put the conditions for an armistice, and a break in the fight would be a “first step” to enable the talks with the end of the “full settlement” to end war.
  • Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow to discuss the ceasefire plan. Yuri Ushakov, Top Kreml Aide, said Witkoff would hit Putin if the president “indicates the signal”, reported the Russian news agencies.
  • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Europe and Ukraine would be “finished” if Russia agrees with the United States about an armistice. Lukashenko said that Moscow and Washington would hold the fate of Europe “in their hands”.
  • The Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said: “If Russia rejects this test and fails, it will be clear who wants war and who wants to peace.”
  • Saudi -arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Putin on a phone call that his kingdom is still obliged to facilitate dialogue and to support a political decision for the Ukraine crisis, reported the Saudi State news agency.

Military

  • The United States is ready to resume the programs in the Ukraine of long-range bombs, which were known as chillers with a small diameter (GLSDB) after they had been improved to better counteract the Russian electronic jamming techniques.
  • The ammunition will arrive in the middle of reports that Ukrainian care with similar tactical rocket systems (ATACMS) is exhausted in the army.
  • Sweden announced a new military aid package worth 3 billion Swedish Krona ($ 294 million) to strengthen Ukraine artillery skills, reports the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
  • Jack Teixeira, the member of the Air National Guard, which had caused an international turmoil when he moved high-class US documents about the war in Ukraine, used his court hearing to describe himself as a “proud patriot”, which only “unmasked and corrected the lies adopted by the bidden administration”.

Politics and diplomacy

  • The German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock emphasized the importance of western unity, despite the tensions with the USA because of its approach to Russia in a group of seven (G7) meetings of external ministers in eastern Canada.
  • Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, praised Trump when the two met in the Oval Office that he welcomed the president's efforts to increase their fellow human beings of the military alliance to increase their defense spending.

Sanctions

  • The US Ministry of Finance confirmed that a license that enables abduction of energy transactions with Russian financial institutions have expired in the last days of Joe Biden's presidency as planned this week after stiff sanctions.
  • The bidges gave the license on January 10 to remove remaining transactions because it banned energy -finance agreements with Russian banks, including Sberbank, VTB and the central bank of the Russian Federation.