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• Russia, Ukraine Exchange Strikes As US, European Leaders Push For Cease-Fire RFE/RL 16 Mar 2025 -- France's president said Russia should not have a veto of any deployment of foreign peacekeepers to Ukraine as part of a cease-fire deal.

Ukraine

• Continued Support for Ukraine, Bilateral Cooperation, and Pressure on Russia: President Holds Talks with Canadian Prime Minister President of Ukraine 16 Mar 2025
• After the Talks in Jeddah and the American Proposal for a Ceasefire on the Frontline, Russia Stole Almost Another Week of War - Address by the President President of Ukraine 16 Mar 2025

Russia

• Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (16 March 2025) Russia MoD 16 Mar 2025

United States

• Distance is Shrinking in Russian-US Negotiations on Ukraine - Witkoff Sputnik 16 Mar 2025 -- US Special Representative Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that he had discussed the results of his trip to Russia with US President Donald Trump and that the US leader expected the Ukraine conflict to be resolved within weeks.
• Witkoff says Trump and Putin to speak this week on Ukraine ceasefire deal Press TV 16 Mar 2025 -- US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will likely hold talks this week on how to reach a ceasefire deal for Ukraine, according to US special envoy Steve Witkoff.

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Foreign Reactions

• UK active in marshalling European allies in sending troops to Ukraine Global Times 16 Mar 2025 -- As the fate of a proposed cease-fire plan to end Russia-Ukraine conflict remains uncertain and the latest battlefield dynamic adds to the complexity of the situation, European leaders presented varying attitudes toward the way and scale of military support for Ukraine in the event of a peace deal after a virtual summit on Saturday.
• Eleven years since the illegitimate referendum staged by Russia in Crimea Latvia MFA 16 Mar 2025 -- 16 March 2025 marks eleven years since the so-called referendums on joining the Russian Federation were illegally held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Russia escalated the violation of Ukraine's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity begun in 2014 by launching an unprovoked full-scale military aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
• No: 55, 16 March 2025, Regarding the Eleventh Anniversary of the Illegal Annexation of Crimea Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs 16 Mar 2025 -- "On the anniversary of the annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea by the Russian Federation through an illegitimate referendum eleven years ago today (16 March), we reiterate that Türkiye does not recognize the de facto situation in Crimea, which constitutes a violation of international law, and that we support the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine."
• Press conference - Melbourne Prime Minister of Australia 16 Mar 2025

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