These are the main developments on the 1114th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

This is the situation on Friday, March 14:

Fighting

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said His forces are besieged The remaining Ukrainian soldiers in the western Kursk region in the country, where Kiev’s forces clung to more than seven months in one of the main battles of the war after conducting a bold incursion across the border.
• Putin said at a press conference that The situation in your corses It was “completely under our control, and the group that invaded our lands is isolated.”
• Ukraine’s military leadership has deny that its forces are vibrant, but said that the remaining forces in the Kursk region are better Defense positions.
• According to the Russian army, Ukraine now owns less than 200 square kilometers (77 square meters) in Kursk, a decrease of 1300 square meters (500 square meters) at the height of the incursion.

• Deep State maps, a reliable Ukrainian source that draws the front lines of the war, shows a major shrinkage of Ukrainian lands last week, but a little change during the past 24 hours.
• The Ukrainian General Staff said that five Russian attacks in Kursk have been caught and that the clashes are continuing in four locations.
• The Russian war correspondent reported a heavy Ukrainian artillery fire in the city of Sodza in Kursk, which Russia recovered on Wednesday.
• The Associated Press said that the fighting continues on the vicinity of Sudzha, where some Ukrainian soldiers are trying to fight their way out of Kursk and return to the neighboring SUMY area in Ukraine.
• Videos from Sudzha, published by Russian media and military bloggers, showed scenes of destruction from the seven months of fighting, with burned vehicles, ceiling -free buildings and rubble mountains.

• Ukrainian soldiers and leaders fear that Russia will enable them to eliminate vital logistical roads to keep the soldiers who are still in Kursk, according to AP reports.
• To back down from Corsak, Ukrainian soldiers must walk dozens of kilometers to return to Ukraine while avoiding Russian forces.

cease-fire

• President Putin said It agrees in principle with the proposal of the United States For a 30 -day ceasefire in Ukraine, but he warned that the terms have not been resolved yet.
• “The same idea is correct, and we are definitely supporting it,” Putin told a press conference in Moscow. “But there are issues that we need to discuss, and I think we need to talk about it with our American colleagues and partners, and we may enter with President Trump and discuss it with him.”

• Putin said that the Russian forces were advancing along the entire line of confrontation and that the ceasefire would have to make sure that Ukraine did not seek to use it simply to reassemble its ranks.
• “How can we and how do we guarantee that something like this happens? How will you control [of the ceasefire] To be organized? Putin said. “These are all serious questions.”
• US President Donald Trump said that there are “good signals” that come out of Russia and offered a guard optimism about Putin’s statement. Trump said Putin “issued a very promising statement, but it was not complete.”
• Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski described Putin’s response to Ceasefire As “manipulation”, saying, “At the moment, in fact, he is preparing to reject it.”
• Zelinski said in the evening video message to the nation that Putin had not dared to publicly tell Trump that he wanted the war to continue.

Currently, we all heard of the very predictive and processed Russia’s words in response to the idea of ​​ceasefire on the front lines – at this moment, in fact, preparing to reject it.

Of course, Putin is afraid to tell President Trump directly that he wants … pic.twitter.com/swbywmga46

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Zelenskyyua) March 13, 2025

• Andrei Yermak, Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian President, said that his country will not agree to the frozen conflict with Russia, as the ceasefire is not resolved properly and where the fighting is fighting with cross revolutions.
• David Lami, UK Foreign Minister, said that Putin is a “mistake” to put the circumstances to the ceasefire, and the stopping in the fighting will be a “first step” to allow the talks to start a “full settlement” to end the war.
• Trump Steve Wittouf’s envoy arrived in Moscow to discuss the ceasefire plan. Russian news agencies said that Kermelin, Yuri Ushakov, said that Witkeov would meet Putin when he gives the president the “sign.”

• The President of the Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, said that Europe and Ukraine will be “undertaken” if Russia has reached an agreement with the United States on a ceasefire. Lukashenko said that Moscow and Washington will make the fate of Europe “in their hands.”
• “If Russia rejects this test and fails, it will be clear whoever wants war and who wants peace,” said Polish Foreign Minister Radoslao Sikorsky.
• The Saudi Press Agency reported that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Putin in a phone call that his kingdom is still committed to facilitating dialogue and supporting a political decision for the Ukraine crisis.

army

• The United States is preparing to resume shipments to Ukraine from long -term bombs known as the GLSDB small bombs (GLSDB) after its promotion in order to better face Russian electronic jamming techniques, telling two people familiar with weapons Reuters news agency.
• The munitions will reach amid reports that Ukraine’s supplies of the tactical missile systems (ATACMS) that have been exhausted have been exhausted.

• Sweden has announced a new military assistance package of 3 billion Swedish chrons ($ 294 million) to enhance artillery capabilities in Ukraine, according to the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
• Jack Texira, a member of the National Guard, who caused an international uproar when he dramatically leaked the US documents about the war in Ukraine, used a hearing of the Military Court to describe himself as a “proud patriotic” who was “presenting and correcting the lies perpetuated by the Biden administration.”

Politics and diplomacy

• German Foreign Minister Analina Perbuk highlighted the importance of Western unity, despite tensions with the United States over its approach to Russia, in a group of seven (G7) a meeting of foreign ministers in East Canada.
• NATO Secretary -General Mark Root Trump praised when the two met at the Oval Office, saying that he welcomed the president’s efforts to make his fellow members of the military alliance to intensify their defensive spending.

Penalties

• The US Treasury confirmed that a license allows energy comments with Russian financial institutions that is scheduled to be held this week under severe sanctions imposed in recent days to head Joe Biden.
• The Biden administration granted the license on January 10 to wipe the remaining transactions because it prohibited energy financing deals with Russian banks, including SberBank, VTB and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.