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These are the main developments day 1 111 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Here is the situation of Tuesday March 11:
Struggle
- One civilian was killed and three others were said to have been injured in one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks against Moscow for months.
- Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that Russian air defense units destroyed at least 69 drones flying to Moscow in a “massive” attack, which later said more than 90 drones.
- Four airports in the Moscow region and the Domodedovo train network were forced to suspend the services due to the attack. Several apartments have also been damaged while the Russian news agency Tass reported a large fire in a parking lot near the Russian capital.
- Bloggers of the pro-Russian war said that the Kremlin forces had advanced more in the country’s Kursk region as part of a large encirclement operation to push thousands of Ukrainian soldiers holding a territory inside Russia.
- General of kyiv, Oleksandr Syrskii, denied that his troops were surrounded by the Russian forces, adding that the situation was under control. However, Ukraine’s troops required strengthening, “including electronic war and unmanned components,” said Syrskii.
- The army of Ukraine said that it had killed 130 of the 176 Russian drones launched by Russia overnight, while 42 others do not reach their objectives.
- Ukraine spokesperson Andriy Demchenko said Russian troops were trying to create an active combat zone in the northeast region of Sumy in Ukraine, through the border of the Russian Kursk region.
- The Russian Ministry of Emergency said that a large fire broke out in the southern region of Samara in Russia due to a Ukrainian drone attack. No injury has been reported.
- The general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said that it had struck two Russian oil refineries in the Ryazan region and the Samara region, which provided fuel to the Moscow army.
- Three people were killed and nine injured by a Ukrainian attack on the village of Belaya in the Belovski district in the Russia region, said the region’s governor Alexander Khinshtein.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Saudi Arabia before talks between kyiv and Washington to end the Russian War against Ukraine.
- The AFP news agency, citing a Ukrainian official, said kyiv planned to offer a partial, air and naval cease-fire with Russia during interviews in Saudi Arabia.
- A higher source from the Ukrainian government also told AFP that Russia had acquired a significant advantage against kyiv during the United States break by sharing military information with Ukrainian forces.
- The United States Special Envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said Washington is expecting substantial progress in talks with Ukraine this week, including the signing of the rare Earths agreement.
- Witkoff also said that intelligence with Ukraine is also discussed during this week’s meetings, but said the United States had never prevented Ukrainian officers from receiving information for defense needs.
- Zelenskyy has promised an entirely “constructive” position of Ukraine in talks with the United States, adding that his country hopes for practical results of negotiations in Saudi Arabia to end the Russia War in his country.
- The Russia FSB security service said two Diplomats in the United Kingdom were expelled from Russia suspected of spying. The Kremlin said that those expelled were the second secretary of the United Kingdom Embassy and the husband of the first secretary.
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said the United Kingdom was planning to welcome virtual talks between the leaders of the nations willing to help with a cease-fire in Ukraine.
