Monday, March 24
Russia’s war against Ukraine
Police officers on the scene after a Russian drone attack in Kyiv Oblast. (Mykola Kalashnyk/Telegram)
Zelensky calls meeting between Ukraine and US ‘beneficial,’ urges further unity. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. delegations in Saudi Arabia was “constructive and beneficial,” with progress made on key issues, in his evening address on March 23.
US, Ukrainian delegations hold ‘technical’ talks in Saudi Arabia to discuss partial ceasefire. The meeting with a technical team comes a day before the U.S. plans to hold separate meetings with Ukrainian and Russian delegates on March 24.
Atesh partisans sabotage railway line in Russia’s Smolensk Oblast, group claims. The Atesh partisan group sabotaged a railway line in Russia’s Smolensk Oblast, disrupting the transport of military cargo toward Bryansk and the Kursk Oblast, the group claimed via Telegram on March 23.
Putin does not ‘want to take all of Europe,’ Witkoff says. In an interview with Fox News on March 23, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff discussed negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, expressing his optimism about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s commitment to peace.
Russian attacks on Kyiv ‘undermine peace efforts,’ Sybiha says. “Russia’s systematic and deliberate terror against civilians contradicts its own statements about peace and undermines peace efforts by the US and other partners,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.
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Ukrainian Air Force strike ‘completely destroys’ Russian troop position in Toretsk. Among the casualties were airborne assault groups and drone operators.
Returning abducted Ukrainian children ‘confidence building measure,’ Waltz says amid peace talks. U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said on March 23 that the topic of Ukrainian children illegally abducted by Russia will likely be discussed at the peace talks, adding that they will serve as “confidence building measures” for negotiations.
Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade liberates village of Nadiya in Luhansk Oblast, releases video of operation. Several dead Russian soldiers are shown in the video, although the Brigade did not confirm the number of fatalities and casualties.
Trump believes Ukraine war ceasefire could be agreed by Easter, Bloomberg reports. The White House still believes it could achieve a truce by Easter, a symbolic date as both Western and Orthodox celebrations overlap this year, although it’s prepared for a delay given the current impasse, sources told Bloomberg.
Trump says efforts to end Ukraine war ‘somewhat under control’ just hours before deadly Russian drone strike on Kyiv. “I don’t think there’s anybody in the world that’s going to stop (Putin) except me,” Trump said shortly before three people were killed in Kyiv by Russian drones.
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Ukraine war latest: Russian drone attack on Kyiv leaves 3 dead including a 5-year-old girl and her father
Russia launched an overnight drone attack against Kyiv, striking multiple residential buildings and killing at least three people including a five-year-old girl and her father, authorities reported on March 23.
Photo: Ukraine’s State Emergency Service / Telegram
Human cost of Russia’s war
One person injured following Russian drone attack against Kyiv Oblast, property damage reported. Russia launched a drone attack against Kyiv Oblast on the night of March 24, injuring a man and causing damage to residential and commercial properties, acting Governor Mykola Kalashnyk reported.
1 person dead, 3 officers injured following explosion at police station in Odesa Oblast. A woman has died as a result of the explosion and there are additional casualties, regional police officials said.
General Staff: Russia has lost 903,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb 24, 2022. The number includes 1,470 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day.
International response
Starmer says he faced pressure from US to criticize Zelensky after Oval Office clash with Trump, NYT reports. “We were under pressure to come out very critically with, you know, flowery adjectives to describe how others felt,” Starmer told the New York Times.
Witkoff trashes Starmer’s Ukraine peacekeeping plan. Witkoff has also praised Vladimir Putin as being gracious, adding that he doesn’t regard the Russian president and war criminal as a “bad guy.”
In other news
Kremlin raises financial incentives to over $23000 amid military recruitment shortages. Russia is increasing financial incentives for military recruits due to a severe shortage of new volunteers, Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) reported on March 23.
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