Putin visits Kursk as Russia pushes back Ukrainian troops in captured region

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a command position in Corsak, where his army commander told him that the Moscow forces were about to restore the Ukrainian border area.
Putin’s visit came just hours after Ukraine agreed to An American suggestion for a 30 -day ceasefire In her war with Russia.
The army ordered that Ukraine forces be removed from the area “in the shortest possible time” and considering the establishment of a buffer zone along the border, according to footage on government television on Wednesday.
Valerie Gerasimov, the head of the Russian General Staff, told Putin that Russia had seized 400 Ukrainian soldiers and regained 86 percent of the lands that Kiev seized in a sudden attack last summer, after the defense of Ukraine collapsed in recent days.
Putin said that the prisoners should be treated “human”, but they warned that any remaining Ukrainian fighters would consider “terrorists.”
After his meeting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Ukrainian and American officials supported a month ago from hostilities along the entire Ukrainian confrontation line.
Footage of Putin’s arrival to the driving list of the forces group in the Cursk region.
He appeared in the military uniform. pic.twitter.com/bajwcudvk6
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On the other hand, the United States resumed military aid and the exchange of intelligence information with Kiev, which was suspended after a bust last month in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelinsky.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian President described the meeting with American officials in Jeddah as a “building”. He said that the 30 -day ceasefire was an American proposal that he agreed to after contacting his team.
“I have repeatedly said that no one of us trusts in the Russians, but we will not play with accounts claiming that we do not want this war to end.”
“I am very serious. I want the President of the United States to see it.” “That is why my reaction was to say that we are ready to coordinate a 30 -day truce suggested by the American side.”
The Ukrainian president said that there is a need for support from other countries to monitor the ceasefire along the 1000 km confrontation line.
Russian government media participated on Wednesday that they showed that Russian soldiers in central Judza, the main municipality, where Ukraine established a command center.
In February, Zelinski insisted that the Russian lands held by the Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region can be used as a bargaining in peace negotiations.
“I don’t think they will be ready to stop in Sudzha,” said Solomia Pohbrovska, Ukrainian opposition deputy and member of the National Security Committee. “Every time the Russians signed something, they started an offensive operation immediately.”
Deepstate, a group that follows the Ukrainian war near the Ministry of Defense in Ukraine, updated the conflict map Wednesday afternoon, showing large parts of Sudzha, which are no longer under the control of the Ukrainian forces.
Zelinski said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian army continues to carry out tasks in the Kursk region, but also added that Russia has increased its attacks.
“Our leadership is doing everything to preserve the lives of our forces,” he said.
to UkraineThe ceasefire is being negotiated just as the Ukrainian forces suffer from the military setbacks with painful echoes. In February 2015, Moscow pressed Kiev to signing a ceasefire just as its forces surrounded the eastern city of Dibalzif.
Russia has repeatedly violated the ceasefire agreement – a precedent Zelinski in the White House, prompting Trump to lose his nerves and concluded that the Ukrainian leader was not interested in ending the conflict.
“Putin will try to fill Trump’s ears without anything, and Trump will have to decide what he is doing after that,” said Mikhaelo Samos, Ukrainian military analyst. He added that the American president was likely to submit Moscow to lift Western sanctions in exchange for a ceasefire.
Caroline Levitte, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Wednesday that US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had spoken to his Russian counterpart. “The President’s team is still participating in” the ceasefire plan.
Ukrainian and European allies welcomed on Wednesday to restore American military assistance And the participation of the intelligence used by Kiev to strike the targets outside the front lines.
“This is an important indication of the whole world that Ukraine’s support is sound,” Andrei Yermak, the chief assistant of the Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah.
Polish Foreign Minister Radik Sikorski said on Wednesday that the crossing of US military supplies to Ukraine via Poland had “returned to the previous levels”, and the STARLNK satellite system was owned by Trump’s adviser Illon Musk. Poland pays the price of part of that service to Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Sir Kerr congratulated Trump and Zelinski on their “wonderful penetration”, adding: “Russia must now agree to a ceasefire and end the fighting as well.”
Starmer led efforts with French President Emmanuel Macron to reach a European “guarantee force” that was deployed in Ukraine to deter Russia from the attack again. Starmer said he would redirect the leaders on Saturday to “discuss the next steps.”

The Kremlin said that she wants to hear directly from the United States before commenting on A ceasefire proposal. Putin Dmitry Peskov spokesman said on Wednesday that Russia expected the United States “to inform us of the details of the talks and agreements reached.”
Peskov said that the invitation between Putin and Trump can be organized “very quickly”, but added that the White House has not yet been asked.
Russia’s foreign intelligence service in Russia said on Wednesday that its director, Sergey Narishin, had spoken by phone with his American counterpart, CIA, head of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, as the two clients agreed to continue regular contact.
“The Ukrainians agree on what are being informed,” said Constantine Kozashif, head of the Russian Foreign Affairs Committee, adding that this will not be with Russia, because “Russia is in the attack.”
Although the Russian forces continued to move forward in the Kursk region, the progress in the rest of the front lines seemed to stop. In recent days, the Ukrainian forces managed to curb the Russian attacks on the logistical axis of Boukrovsk, and even launched bold anti -attacks towards the Tirtsk Center, an industrial city that arrived in August.
On the Pokrovsk front, the unmanned plane operator’s reaction to the proposed ceasefire news was one Ukrainian word: “Pobachymo “ – “We will see”.
Participated in additional reports by Max Sidon in Berlin, Rafael Minand in Warsaw and Henry Foy in Brussels; Stephen Bernard’s maps fee
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2025-03-12 20:00:00