These are the important thing developments on day 1,119 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Right here is the roundup of key occasions on Wednesday, March 19.
Combating
- Ukraine has introduced that the variety of Russian troopers killed and wounded for the reason that warfare started greater than three years in the past stands at about 897,010. This consists of 1,560 servicemen killed or injured up to now 24 hours.
- Russia has bombarded Ukraine with 137 drone assaults, leaving about 3,000 individuals with out electrical energy following harm to crucial infrastructure, stated the governor of Zaporizhia area, Ivan Fedorov. The governor of neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk, Serhiy Lysak, stated the barrage resulted in a hearth at one other infrastructure facility.
- The Ukrainian Air Pressure stated it shot down 63 of the 137 Russian drones, whereas Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated it neutralised 46 Ukrainian drones in a single day.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry stated some 200 Ukrainian fighters with 5 tanks, armoured fight automobiles and three demolition automobiles tried an unsuccessful floor assault on the Belgorod area.
- Ukraine’s army has additionally accused Russia of trying a cross-border assault, saying its forces “efficiently halted all makes an attempt by the occupiers to safe a foothold” within the Sumy area.
- The AFP information company reviews explosions and air raid sirens within the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a 30-day halt on assaults concentrating on Ukrainian power infrastructure.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Russia launched greater than 40 drones that hit civilian infrastructure, together with a hospital within the Sumy area.
Politics and diplomacy
- The telephone name between United States President Donald Trump and Putin was a “historic” and “epic” second, Moscow’s worldwide cooperation envoy Kirill Dmitriev stated on X. “Beneath the management of President Putin and President Trump, the world has turn into a a lot safer place at the moment!” he wrote.
- Within the talks, Putin reportedly agreed to a “restricted” 30-day pause in combating, and for Ukraine and Russia to cease attacking one another’s power sector, which was adopted by a corresponding order by Putin to his army in Moscow.
- In response to the Kremlin, Putin additionally instructed Trump that the US and its allies should finish all army help together with overseas intelligence to Ukraine for the hostilities to finish. The Kremlin additionally demanded that for the ceasefire to work, Ukraine should not be allowed to rearm. Nonetheless, Trump instructed Fox Information that help to Ukraine was not mentioned in his telephone name with Putin.
- It was additionally revealed that Russia and Ukraine shall be exchanging 175 prisoners every on Wednesday.
- Regardless of Moscow’s calls for to cease army and intelligence help to Kyiv, German and French leaders stated they’d proceed army assist to Ukraine.
- Following the decision between each presidents, the White Home stated negotiations on a “full ceasefire” and “everlasting peace” in Ukraine are set to start “instantly” within the Center East.
- Zelenskyy stated Ukraine would assist the proposal to halt assaults on power infrastructure however added that he hoped to talk with Trump for extra particulars concerning Trump’s telephone name with Putin earlier than Ukraine provides a closing reply.
- Zelenskyy additionally accused the Kremlin of not intending to finish its invasion of Ukraine and stated Russia’s “complete sport is to weaken” Ukraine. “They don’t seem to be prepared even for step one, which is a ceasefire,” Zelenskyy stated.
- Democratic lawmakers within the US referred to as on Trump to revive funding for a beforehand government-sponsored initiative led by Yale College’s Humanitarian Analysis Lab (Yale HRL) that tracked the mass deportation of Ukrainian kids. In addition they claimed that information from the repository could have been completely deleted, which might end in “devastating penalties”.
- Reuters information company reported that Ukraine had purchased 100 million cubic metres of US liquefied pure fuel (LNG) through an settlement between Ukraine’s state power agency Naftogaz and Poland’s Orlen.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated that the UK and France’s plan to ship peacekeepers to Ukraine is probably going ineffective. As a substitute, Meloni believes a greater answer could be to increase NATO’s mutual defence umbrella.
- President of the European Fee Ursula von der Leyen introduced a brand new joint job pressure with Ukraine that might streamline the procurement of army provides and consolidate assist.