Ukraine-Russia war update: Trump touts ‘pretty good news’ on ceasefire as Russian forces close in on retaking Kursk

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet a second meeting of world leaders on Saturday to discuss the war in Ukraine.

The meeting, which Mr. Starmer called the ‘coalition of the willing’ will be fed virtually and see about 25 countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ukraine and NATO officials and CEO of the European Union.

“When Russia finally comes to the table, we must be ready to monitor a ceasefire to ensure that it is a serious and lasting peace,” is Mr. Starmer ready to tell leaders in remarks his office released before the meeting.

“If they do not, we must use every nerves to increase the economic pressure on Russia to put an end to this war.”

Not long ago, Donald Trump noted from Volodymyr Zelensky: “The only thing he was good was to play like a fidget.” Usually unfair, clear – but perhaps the same will be said about how Vladimir Putin gets a tune of his own composition from the Trump window plan?

Thursday when a US delegation arrived in Russia for high-level talks aimed at ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a real estate magnate of the White House’s foreign policy.

Steve Witkoff, a long -standing measure of President Donald Trump, is a key player in the Republican administration’s efforts to end the war in Gaza.

More than 200 people were evacuated from Sudzha in the Koursk region in Russia, as Moscow strengthened its air strike to regain the area of ​​the Ukrainian forces, reports Associated Press.

Russia announced on Friday that it had recaptured another settlement in Kurk that was previously under Ukrainian control.

Sudzha, who had a population of about 5000 before the offensive, was the largest city that seized the Ukrainian forces last year during their unexpected borderline.

Ukraine’s top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Thursday that Russian aircraft carried out relentless air strikes on Kursk, which almost destroyed Sudzha. Kyiv reported that nearly two dozen Russian assaults in the region successfully repel.

While Syrskyi did not confirm whether Ukraine still controlled the settlement, he said that the Ukrainian forces ‘troops to more beneficial positions’ maneuver.

Russian forces almost surrounded the Ukrainian troops in the Koursk region of Russia, forcing a few Ukrainian units to abandon their vehicles during a refuge, according to a US military official quoted by NBC News.

The official noted that increasing signs that Russia could soon regain control of Kursk.

This progress is in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cautious approach to an American conditions proposal in Ukraine, as Russian forces reinforce the efforts to return the Ukrainian troops in the region, two Western officials reports.

In an effort to deduce the Russian forces of the cruel front lines in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv struck the border to the Kursk region in August, the biggest attack on the Russian area since the Nazi invasion in 1941.

No one has ever accused Donald Trump of not self -faith. Maybe it helped him in life, and to overcome deficits in his personality that could prevent him from becoming a billionaire and president of the United States. What he did.

He famously wrote a book on this-Eintly ghost-written-with the title, The art of the agreement (The ghost writer also came up with it). And we never stop hearing about it.

Vladimir Putin has probably never read Trump’s very quoted businessmoire of 1987, nor his other works, including Kick ass and think big, How to get richor the more modestly titled Midas Touch. But the former KGB man and the contemporary Tsar also did well for himself. Can he be about to give Trump a master class on how to do transactions in the Russian way?

By turning his nose up at the US prescribed ceasefire, Vladimir Putin deployed a typically competent diplomatic negotiating problem-which in principle agrees with the US president, while he does not agree in practice, writes Sean O’Grady

Germany’s parliamentary coalition agreed to award € 3 billion (£ 2.53 billion) in new military assistance to Ukraine, part of an attempt to promote Berlin’s defensive spending, according to The Kyiv Independent.

The announcement comes from the Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday.

The coalition – the Mr. Merz’s Conservative Christian Democratic Alliance, the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party – also agreed to reform Germany’s “debt” policy to facilitate increased spending on defense. Their collective support ensures that Merz has the required two-thirds majority to pass the budget if it will vote on March 18.

“Germany is back,” Mr. Merz said. “Germany makes its great contribution to the defense of freedom and peace in Europe.”

Mr. Merz also confirmed that outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz will authorize the additional assistance to Ukraine once the defense package has been approved by Parliament.

The launch of the Kursk operation was characterized by attempts to break Ukrainian lines outside the striking land that Kyiv captured in a surprise attack in August.

A Ukrainian military officer compared to the North Korean tactics with a cyber attack that could collapse a website with mass attempts to gain access to it The independent: “[We faced] Human waves like DDOS attacks on our positions … We killed eight out of 10 North Koreans.

“But in some areas we only had a small number of troops, which is why they killed and killed until they were overpowered,” the senior officer added an exploration unit.

At least 12 people, including two boys aged 2 and 15, were injured when the Russian forces launched a ballistic rocket strike in a residential area in Kryvyi Rih, located in the Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk -blast, Governor Serhii Lysak was quoted by saying by saying by saying The Kyiv Independent.

The explosions were reported shortly after the Ukraine Air Force announced on Friday that Russia had fired missiles.

The attack caused damage to four apartment complex, four homes and various business facilities, although the exact number is unclear.

Governor Lysak confirmed that six of the injured were hospitalized.