18 March 2025 - Ukraine Special Weapons News

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.

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.

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.

Foreign Minister Tsahkna in Brussels: We need to increase pressure on Russia to achieve a lasting peace Estonia MFA 18 Mar 2025 -- Today 17 March, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna attended a meeting of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, where the agenda included Russia's aggression against Ukraine, European-US relations, and the situation in the Middle East.

The UN Commission: Russia continues perpetrating crimes against humanity in Ukraine through widespread, systematic and coordinated acts of torture and forced disappearances Latvia MFA 18 Mar 2025 -- "Russian authorities have committed enforced disappearances and torture of the Ukrainian civilian population. Those crimes were perpetrated as part of a widespread, systematic attack and pursuant to a coordinated state policy, and therefore constitute crimes against humanity," the United Nations Independent International Commission on Ukraine has established.

Taiwan Is Watching Ukraine And Trump. Here's What It's Learning. RFE/RL 18 Mar 2025 -- Just a few days after US President Donald Trump sparred with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a televised spat in the Oval Office, the self-governing island of Taiwan took a different approach to deal with the American leader.

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