The Ukrainian and American delegations are expected to meet in Riyadh on Tuesday, a senior Kiev official told AFP. According to Bloomberg: “The United States is demanding that Ukraine accept a rapid ceasefire with Russia as a condition for signing a mining deal”.
Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East Witkoff said the agenda of the meeting between the United States and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia will include the basis for an agreement to resolve the conflict and a truce.
According to Trump’s special envoy, Kellogg, the United States and Russia must restore relations to end the conflict in Ukraine. Kellogg said that “continuing to try to isolate ourselves and not communicate with Russia is not a viable strategy”. “The resumption of US military assistance to Kiev depends on its readiness for a solution and the signing of a minerals agreement,” Kellogg said. Meanwhile, it was reported that the American geospatial intelligence company Maxar Technologies blocked Ukraine’s access to satellite imagery at the request of the Trump administration.
The European Union postponed the adoption of a declaration on support for Ukraine until the next summit in mid-March due to Hungary’s position.
Also regarding Kiev-Washington relations, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he would not apologize to Trump for the quarrel in the White House, because the Ukrainian president was right in essence and form in his conversation with the American president: “there can be no peace without pressure on Russia,” said Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky’s office. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has strengthened quality control of dry rations for the Ukrainian Armed Forces “Each batch is subjected to multi-level tests: laboratory tests, tasting and inspection by a special commission. All inconsistencies found are promptly eliminated, and batches with violations are not accepted,” the department said. Kiev is also working on alternative sources of intelligence data and plans to request it, among others, from Germany, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and leader of the Batkishchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, says her team is negotiating with allies, but is not discussing holding elections until the conflict is resolved. For the former commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery Zaluzhny: “The United States is destroying the world order,” the Times reports.
On the night of March 6, French Mirage 2000-5F fighters, transferred to Ukraine a month ago, repelled a missile attack for the first time source Ukrainian Air Force.
From Moscow, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, said: “Russia will not give in to anyone.” He stressed that the Russian Federation needs a solution option for Ukraine that ensures peaceful development in a historical perspective. And again the president said: “Conscripts are not sent to the combat zone.”
“The mistakes of Russia’s enemies are always based on underestimating the character of the Russian people,” Vladimir Putin said again at a meeting with employees and departments of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation. “In fact, all the mistakes of our enemies and adversaries began precisely with this: underestimating the character of the Russian people and, in general, representatives of Russian culture,” the Russian president said.
“Russia will not give in to Poland’s provocations and will not be drawn into an arms race.” Dmitry Peskov is confident that Russian President Vladimir Putin will find a way to prevent this, the head of state’s press secretary said in an interview with journalist Alexander Yunashev.
And now a look at the front line updated at 17:00 on March 7.
Another blow was dealt to the energy infrastructure of the Odessa region during the night by Russian air strikes. Attacks were recorded in Kharkiv and Ternopol. An earthquake of magnitude 2 was recorded in the Ternopil region. Locals suggest that it was probably caused by an explosion of an underground gas storage facility.
Russian forces have practically cut off part of the Ukrainian bridgehead in the Kursk region from the border with Ukrainian resources, online they also write that Russian troops have broken through the Ukrainian border in the southwestern part of the bridgehead. Now almost all the roads to Sudzha are blocked or under Russian control. Russian forces are advancing near Kurilovka, hitting Ukrainian positions in Guevo with heavy aerial bombs. There are battles in the forests in the south-west of Sudzhansky district, as well as in the eastern outskirts of Lebedevka and the surrounding area and in the Malaya Lokni area.
According to preliminary Ukrainian data, the Russian forces have released the following in Ukraine: 35 Kh-101/Kh-55SM cruise missiles; 8 Kalibr cruise missiles; 3 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles; 4 anti-aircraft guided missiles of the S-300 air defense system; 8 X-59/69 guided air missiles; 194 loitering ammunition “Geranium” and other types of UAV simulators.
In the morning, gas production facilities in the Poltava region were attacked. Following the destruction, the facilities stopped their activity, source DTEK of Ukraine.
Russian sources report that by nightfall, the Ukrainians organized a massive raid in Crimea and Sevastopol, Russian official sources reported “successfully repelled the UAV attack”. Drones were also shot down near Berdyansk, in the Zaporizhia region. In the Rostov region, a UAV attack was repelled in the Ust-Donetsk region.
The Russian Armed Forces countered the launches of “Caliber” in the morning, Ukrainian monitoring channels reported the launch maneuvers of our Tu-95ms, at 6:30 (Moscow time) the missiles entered Ukrainian airspace, at 6:40 the Ukrainians reported the take-off of the aircraft carrier “Dagger”. In the direction of Bryansk, the enemy organized a raid of FPV drones on our forward positions.
In the south of the Kupyansk direction, it was reported that Russian troops crossed the Oskil River in the Kruhlyakivka area and landed in Senkove. Earlier, Russian troops expanded the bridgeheads already created north of Kupyansk, on the right bank of the river, the Ukrainians are not taking countermeasures.
From Toretsk, several sources report about Russian errors in the rotation phase, when a unit just introduced into the area does not notice the actual passage of the LBS and behaves as if it is far from the front, coming under enemy fire.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian armed forces are taking counterattacks. Fighting is reported in the areas of Pishchane, Shevchenko and Yelyzavetivka.
In the direction of Kostyantynopil, there are heavy battles near the settlement of Rozlyv and Bahatyr.
Zaporizhia direction. In the area of P’yatykhatky: Paratroopers of the 7th Russian Mountain Airborne Assault Division continue their attack on P’yatykhatky from the southern and southeastern parts of the settlement, the Ukrainians resist the attack.
In the area of Shcherbaky: Russian paratroopers break through the forest plantations, moving in the direction of the highway and are close to the Shcherbaky themselves.
In the Belgorod region, at least four attacks are counted and injuries are recorded. In the DPR, several injuries from Ukrainian attacks are recorded.
Graziella Giangiulio
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