These are the main developments day 1 115 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Saturday March 15:
Struggle
- Russian President Vladimir Putin called for Ukrainian troops besieged in the Russian region of Kursk to “go”, saying that “if they lay down arms and rename themselves, they will be guaranteed life and worthy treatment”.
- Putin’s remarks were broadcast over Russian television hours after US President Donald Trump said “thousands” of Ukrainian troops were surrounded by the Russian army in Kursk, adding that he had “strongly asked” Putin to save their lives.
- The general staff of Ukraine again denied that his forces in Kursk were surrounded by the troops of Moscow and declared that any report for this purpose had been “manufactured by the Russians for political manipulation and exerting pressure on Ukraine and its partners”.
- A Russian missile struck a residential area in the Ukrainian Central City of Kryvyi Rih, injuring 11 people, two of whom were, said the regional governor. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and was the target of repeated attacks in the large -scale invasion of his neighbor’s Russia.
- The Russian guided bombs have struck a series of objectives in Ukraine, including a residential area in the Ukrainian city south of Kherson, killing a person, said regional governor on Telegram.
- Near the city of Odesa in the Black Sea of Ukraine, Russian drones attacked the port of Chornomorsk, completely reducing power to residents of the region, said the regional governor.
- The Russian air defenses have shot down four Ukrainian drones attacking the Russian capital, said the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin. A drone damaged the roof of a building a few kilometers from the Kremlin. Several other buildings have been slightly damaged by drone fragments, but there was no injury, according to emergency officials.
- An anti-Russian activist on the far right was shot dead in a street in Odesa and a suspect was arrested, said Zelenskyy on Telegram. The suspect, a 46 -year -old man, was described as a “deserter” of the Ukrainian army. Police said: “We cannot exclude the possibility that this crime has been committed on behalf of the Russian secret services”.
Ceasefire
- Putin met the American envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss the details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the Moscow War against Ukraine, asking him to transmit Moscow’s thoughts to Washington, the spokesman for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov.
- Trump said that he “was a little sarcastic” when he said on several occasions as a presidential candidate that he would have the Russian -Ukraine war within 24 hours – and even before he took office. “Well, I was a little sarcastic when I said that,” said Trump in a clip published before a television interview to broadcast on Sunday.
- In a speech to the US Ministry of Justice, Trump said the cease-fire negotiations with Russia were underway and praised his relationship with Putin, saying that the Russian chief “has the respect of this country”. He again suggested that Ukraine was to blame for the invasion of Russia in 2022, saying: “You don’t want to choose someone who is much bigger than you.”
- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer accused Putin of not having taken a cease-fire led by the United States seriously to obtain a ceasefire in Ukraine.
- French President Emmanuel Macron in a position on X, also called Moscow to stop his “acts of violence” in Ukraine.
- The G7 foreign ministers have warned Russia of new sanctions unless it accepts a cease-fire “for equal purposes”, affirming that sanctions could include “the ceilings on oil prices, as well as additional support for Ukraine and other means”.
Politics and diplomacy
- European support for Ukraine will be discussed at a video conference with around 25 leaders of the European Union and other leaders, as well as Zelenskyy on Saturday. Diplomatic sources have said that the EU’s foreign business manager Kaja Kallas will propose that the 27 -country block provides up to 40 billion euros ($ 43.5 billion) of new military aid to Ukraine.
- The United Kingdom Starmer urges the leaders of the so-called “Coalition of the Willing”, which includes Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, to take concrete commitments to support Ukraine and increase pressure on Russia to accept a cease-fire during the video conference.
- The Russian Foreign Vice Minister, Andrei Rudenko, visits the North Korean media report in North Korea.
- Russia and Venezuela have announced its intention to increase energy cooperation after Washington ordered that the American oil giant Chevron to withdraw from the country of the Caribbean.
