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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Telephone conversation with President of the United States Donald Trump President of Russia 18 Mar 2025 -- Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the United States Donald Trump.
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 18 Mar 2025
• So What Did Putin and Trump Agree On? A Partial Ukraine Cease-Fire Anyway. RFE/RL 18 Mar 2025 -- It's a cease-fire. But what kind of cease-fire? More than three years into the Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine, the White House and the Kremlin on March 18 announced a broad agreement aimed at pausing a conflict that has killed and wounded more than 1 million men on both sides.
• What Will Trump's Game Plan Be In High-Stakes Call With Putin? RFE/RL 18 Mar 2025 -- Mainstream Washington has often fretted over encounters between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin. The US leader has shown an affinity for the authoritarian Kremlin ruler that has stumped critics and even some allies, leading many to wonder whether the crafty former KGB colonel may use flattery and other means to get his way on issues.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Putin's Broken Promise: Russian Conscripts Dying In Ukraine Invasion RFE/RL 19 Mar 2025 -- In March 2022, weeks after ordering a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to "mothers, wives, sisters, and fiancees" that he would deploy only "professional military personnel" in what has become Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.
• Russian Navy and Pakistan Navy to conduct PASSEX joint naval exercise in Arabian Sea Russia MoD 18 Mar 2025 -- A detachment of Russian Navy ships consisting of the corvettes Rezky, Aldar Tsydenzhapov of the Russian Federation, and the Pacific Fleet's medium sea tanker Pechenga will participate in the PASSEX drills together with the Navy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
• Plenary session of RSPP Congress President of Russia 18 Mar 2025 -- Vladimir Putin took part in the annual congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Foreign Policy

• Delegation of Russian Foreign Ministry Leaves KCNA 18 Mar 2025 -- A delegation of the Russian Foreign Ministry led by Vice-Minister Andrei Rudenko left here for home on March 17.
• Delegation of DPRK Ministry of Public Health Leaves for Russia KCNA 18 Mar 2025 -- A working-level delegation of the DPRK Ministry of Public Health led by Vice-Minister Jon Sol Ryong left here for Russia on March 17.

News Reports

• After 3-Year Legal Fight, U.S. Court Approves Sale Of Oligarch-Linked Luxury Yacht RFE/RL 18 Mar 2025 -- For nearly three years, a $325 million, 106-meter super yacht -- and the issue of who actually owns it -- has been the subject of a brass-knuckles legal fight playing out in U.S. federal court.