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• Russia Hopes To Continue Its Rapid Territory Gains In Kursk Region RFE/RL 13 Mar 2025 -- Russian forces are scrambling to build on their rapid advance in retaking areas of the Kursk region, claiming control of the town of Sudzha on March 12, and President Vladimir Putin has met with commanders, urging them to push on.
• Kursk Ambush: Did Russia Pull Off Another Pipeline Sneak Attack On Ukrainian Troops? RFE/RL 13 Mar 2025 -- Dozens, possibly scores, of Russian soldiers, some wearing oxygen masks, shuffled secretly through water and methane fumes for days, moving kilometers through an unused underground gas pipeline into Sudzha, a town in Russia's southern Kursk region.
• Deadly Russian aerial attacks hit Ukraine's Kherson region VOA 13 Mar 2025 -- Russian aerial attacks overnight killed at least two people in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, officials said Thursday.

Ukraine

• We Are Not Setting Conditions That Complicate the Process - Russia Is - Address by the President President of Ukraine 13 Mar 2025
• Strengthening Ukrainian-Polish Relations and Continuing Support: Representatives of the President's Office Visit Poland President of Ukraine 13 Mar 2025
• Steps Toward Achieving a Just Peace and Strengthening Ukraine: President Meets with the Leader of the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy President of Ukraine 13 Mar 2025
• Ukraine's Reconstruction and the Development of Bilateral Relations: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Meets with Turkish Government and Business Representatives President of Ukraine 13 Mar 2025
• Kyiv endorses US-proposed interim truce People's Daily 13 Mar 2025 -- Ukraine's support for a US-proposed temporary ceasefire with Russia marks a significant shift by Kyiv from its stance just one week ago with regard to an eventual diplomatic solution to the three-year-long crisis.

Russia

• Joint news conference with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko President of Russia 13 Mar 2025
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a media question, Moscow, March 13, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 13 Mar 2025
• Report by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (13 March 2025) Russia MoD 13 Mar 2025
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 13 Mar 2025
• Putin says Ukrainians must 'surrender or die' VOA 13 Mar 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region, where they have held on for more than seven months in one of the most important battles of the war.
• Putin expresses support for ceasefire but says details must be worked out VOA 13 Mar 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support for a U.S. ceasefire proposal to halt Russia's war with Ukraine for 30 days, but he stressed that many details would have to be worked out and that any truce should pave the way to lasting peace.
• Top Kremlin aide says U.S.-Ukrainian truce proposal 'a temporary respite' for Kiev IRNA 13 Mar 2025 -- Yuri Ushakov, a senior aide to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, says a proposal presented by the United States and Ukraine for a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev is just a "temporary respite" for the Ukrainian military.
• Putin Says Russia Agrees With US Cease-Fire Proposal But 'With Nuances' RFE/RL 13 Mar 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agrees in principle with the US proposal for a temporary cease-fire with Ukraine, but added that "there are nuances," such as Western weapons deliveries to Kyiv, that he wants addressed first.
• Kremlin Aide Rejects Any Temporary Cease-Fire As US Negotiators Arrive In Moscow RFE/RL 13 Mar 2025 -- A senior aide to President Vladimir Putin has rejected any temporary cease-fire with Ukraine just hours before a US delegation arrived in Russia for talks with Moscow where they will urge the Kremlin to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposal or face sanctions.
• Russian Deputy Defence Minister Colonel General Andrei Bulyga holds working meeting on modernisation of Logistical Support system in special military operation zone Russia MoD 13 Mar 2025 -- Deputy Defence Minister of the Russian Federation Colonel General Andrei Bulyga held a working meeting with representatives of the relevant main military command bodies, Groups of Forces responsible for logistics support in the special military operation zone as well as industry enterprises.
• Foreign Ministry statement on retaliatory measures to the 16th package of EU sanctions against Russia Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 13 Mar 2025

United States

NATO

United Nations

• Update 280 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 13 Mar 2025 -- Ukrainian firefighters have gained full control over the situation at the Chornobyl site following last month's drone strike that caused extensive damage to the large confinement structure covering the reactor destroyed in the 1986 accident, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today.

Foreign Reactions

• Ukraine peace, global security top G7 agenda as diplomats convene in Canada VOA 13 Mar 2025 -- Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrial nations gathered Thursday in Charlevoix, Quebec, as host country Canada outlined its top agenda, focusing on achieving a "just and lasting peace in Ukraine" and strengthening security and defense partnerships as the G7 marks 50 years.
• Minister of the Interior Rantanen visits Ukraine Finnish Government 13 Mar 2025 -- Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen visited Ukraine on 11-12 March and met with Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko.
• Finland and Ukraine sign new MoU on defence cooperation - Finland announces new arms assistance package Finnish MoD 13 Mar 2025 -- Finland's Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen and Ukraine's Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov met bilaterally on Thursday 13 March 2025. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding on defence cooperation between the two countries' defence administrations.
• Largest civilian support package for Ukraine announced Government Offices of Sweden 13 Mar 2025 -- Today, 13 March, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa has announced that Sweden will increase development assistance to Ukraine by more than SEK 1.4 billion with the aim of strengthening Ukraine's resilience and recovery.
• New Swedish support strengthens Ukraine's artillery capacity Government Offices of Sweden 13 Mar 2025 -- The Government has authorised the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to procure 18 Archer artillery units for donation to Ukraine.
• Time for Russia to show that it is interested in peace: UK statement to the OSCE UK FCDO 13 Mar 2025 -- Ambassador Holland welcomes the agreement reached between the US and Ukraine on proposing an immediate 30-day ceasefire and urges Russia to show it is interested in peace.

News Reports

• Analysis: Will Russia Accept The US Proposal For A Cease-Fire With Ukraine? RFE/RL 13 Mar 2025 -- For the first time since US President Donald Trump started his second term in January and launched a push to end Russia's war against Ukraine, it is Moscow - not Kyiv - that is under greater pressure from the United States to show that it is committed to seeking peace.
• What Can Ukraine Learn From NATO's Peacekeeping Mission In Kosovo? RFE/RL 13 Mar 2025 -- While they are more than 1,600 kilometers apart and vastly different in size, Kosovo and Ukraine share a common struggle over sovereignty - one still reeling from war 26 years ago, the other fighting to preserve its territorial integrity against Russia.