[18:05] Putin calls on Ukraine army to surrender in Kursk region
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on Ukrainian troops fighting in the Kursk region to surrender, after US President Donald Trump urged Putin to "spare" the lives of Ukrainian soldiers.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0314/1502177-ukraine-zelensky-kursk/
#Russian #VladimirPutin #Ukrainian #Kursk #US #DonaldTrump #Putin
#Ukraine 
continues holding #Kursk oblast' south of #Sudzha while 
continues pressure
advanced in #Toretsk #Uspenivka #Kotline on #Pokrovsk direction
advanced ~500 m in #Grigorivka on #Kramatorsk direction and #Bilogorivka on #Siversk direction
UAV explosion in #Tuapse fuel depot (Krasnodar krai) and #Moscow
foreign minister arrived in #Kyiv
neo-Nazi and war criminal Jan Petrovski (Voislav Torden) gets life sentence in 
#Putin thanked #Trump and effectively #refused a #ceasefire. #Moscow openly #rejected the #US-#Ukraine 30-day #truce #proposal, calling it a tactic for #Ukrainian regrouping.
Putin demanded #surrender of Ukraine’s forces in #Kursk and elimination of the ‘root causes’:
1. Ukraine’s desire for #independence.
2. The #EU membership.
3. And #NATO aspirations.
It's partially aligning with Trump's stance.
https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/putin-s-nuances/#moscows-reaction-to-the-ceasefire-proposal
[17:37] Russia says it is poised to drive Ukraine out of Kursk
Russian officials have predicted the country will swiftly recapture the rest of its western Kursk region from Ukrainian troops, who grabbed a foothold there last August and have clung on for more than seven months in one of the key battles of the war.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2025/0313/1501957-russia-ukraine-kursk/
#Russian #Kursk #Ukrainian #lastAugust #morethansevenmonths #one
Putin will give a list of unfavourable demands that Trump will try to bully Europe and Ukraine into accepting.
Putin wants to create division between Europe and the US and his little imp in the White House is performing that task for him.
Very Serious People don't seem to be able to understand this and take Trump's calls for 'Peace' at face value, like they were meeting the Wallet Inspector
The collapse of #Ukraine on all fronts, as well as the catastrophic loss of #Kursk, which wiped out Ukrainian forces there, explains #Washington’s rush to freeze the conflict under #Minsk3
On the other hand, its foolish to believe that Russia’s leadership, which has completed a victorious campaign against the entire West, will suddenly believe in new false promises and be dragged into a false truce.
The trade-offs they will take will shock #Europe if not the entire world.
"Ukraine's Kursk Operation Ends: Russia Retakes Sudzha, Destroys FOUR Key Bridges" [2:34 min]
by Suchomimus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzHI9LYteBY
Quote by S:
"Mar 12, 2025
Russian forces have retaken Sudzha as shown by geolocated footage and Ukraine is withdrawing from Kursk."
#Crimea - Putin demands Kursk total victory ahead of Moscow talks with Trump envoy
> #VladimirPutin visited a command center in #Kursk on Wednesday, ordering troops there to "destroy" all Ukrainian formations remaining in the contested border region
> "Your task is to completely destroy the enemy, which has entrenched itself in the Kursk region and is still conducting warfare here, and fully liberate the Kursk region" https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-demands-kursk-total-victory-ahead-moscow-talks/story?id=119743582 #UkraineWar #Russia #DonaldTrump #Trump
#Kursk oblast': #Ukraine has withdrawn from town of #Sudzha. General Syrskii declares holding positions in the region "as long as necessary". #Russia offensive continues from all directions.
UAV explosions in #Saratov
Fire at #Moscow TEC-16 power plant (cause unknown)
Negotiations regarding ceasefire continue, 
voiced support
Undated video of executing 5 POWs in #KazachaLokkna in #Kursk oblast'
continues advances in #Toretsk
[10:11] What is happening in Kursk and why does it matter?
Russian troops are close to ejecting Ukrainian forces from their foothold in Russia's Kursk region, where they grabbed a chunk of land last August and have held on to it through more than seven months of fierce fighting.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0313/1501840-russia-ukraine-kursk/
#Russian #Ukrainian #Russia #Kursk #lastAugust #morethansevenmonths
[07:51] Putin orders swift defeat of Ukrainian forces in Kursk
Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in military fatigues, has ordered top commanders to defeat Ukrainian forces in the western region of Kursk as soon as possible after the United States asked him to consider a 30-day ceasefire proposal.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2025/0313/1501804-ukraine-russia/
#Russian #VladimirPutin #Ukrainian #Kursk #theUnitedStates #30_day
#UkraineWar, Day 1,114: #Putin Signals No Ceasefire
https://eaworldview.com/2025/03/ukraine-war-putin-signals-no-ceasefire/
President Vladimir Putin donned military fatigues for a surprise visit to troops in Russia's western Kursk region on Wednesday where he ordered them to press their lightning advance and swiftly retake the rest of the area from Ukrainian forces.
#Putin arrived to #Kursk clearly cosplaying actual leaders from neighbouring countries 
He spoke about the liberation of Kursk oblast’ long and boringly, but he made some important remarks.
Firstly, that “Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk will be treated as terrorists”, secondly adding that “Geneva conventions doesn’t apply to foreign mercenaries”.
Here it is important to remember that Russians often use common words in their private, sociopath meaning, and this is the case here.
Legal definition of mercenary is a foreign soldier for hire, who fights exclusively for money. And yes, #Russia hastily recruited thousands of mercenaries from all around the world but #Ukraine has very few, if any, actual mercenaries because its military pay is more than modest.
In a classic reversal of meanings, Russians consistently use the term “mercenary” even to people who served in the army as Ukrainian citizens and lived in Ukraine for years - for example Shaun Pinner. The only distinguishing feature of Pinner was… non-Slavic name and that he’s originally British. Even foreign citizens in Ukraine aren’t mercenaries legally if they came as volunteers for ideological motives, even if they receive military pay from Ukraine - and thousands of them do.
From the same perspective US national Russell “Texas” Bentley, who came to fight for Russia in Donbas was not a mercenary. He was a communist, a miserable idiot killed by his own, but certainly not a mercenary.
The postulate to “treat them as terrorist” is even more idiotic, because if Putin wants to treat Ukrainian soldiers on Russian territory as “terrorists”, then logically Russian soldiers in Ukraine should be treated in the same way.
If this is not just Putin’s ramblings for internal use, it has serious practical consequences because with legislation introduced in 2000’s Russia does not return bodies of terrorists, they are buried in anonymous graves.
Putin besucht Truppen in umkämpfter Kursk-Region
Russlands Präsident Putin hat erstmals seit dem Eindringen ukrainischer Truppen die russische Grenzregion Kursk besucht. Er gab dabei den Befehl, die restlichen ukrainischen Einheiten zu vertreiben.
via AFP
#Russia has captured 430 #Ukrainian soldiers fighting in the #Kursk region, Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian general staff told Putin in a televised meeting on Wednesday.
#Putin said the captured fighters should be "treated as terrorists, in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation," suggesting they could face trials in Russian courts and be jailed for decades.
Spartacus 
