Today US officials will ask the Ukrainian delegation whether Ukraine is ready to make significant concessions to Russia to end the war, Reuters reports. The US delegation in Saudi Arabia includes Secretary of State Rubio, National Security Advisor Tim Walz and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has said he will not resume military aid to Ukraine until Volodymyr Zelensky leaves the presidency, BILD reports. Not only that, Trump said he is “seriously considering imposing significant banking, economic and tariff sanctions on Russia until a ceasefire is reached” because Russia is “attacking Ukraine on the battlefield right now.”
France says it will use frozen Russian assets to send $211 million in weapons to Ukraine. According to Paris, the interest on Russian assets will be used to finance another €195 million, or $211 million, in weapons for Ukraine.
And while Ukraine and the United States are discussing rare earth deals and peace agreements, German intelligence director Bruno Kahl reports that: “It would be safer for Europe if the war in Ukraine continued for another 5 years.” He noted that “the sooner the fighting ends, the sooner Russia can try to test the strength of the West.”
On March 10, a plane from Germany with a new group of trained Ukrainian military personnel arrives in Rzeszow. Just as President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plane has already taken off from Poland to Saudi Arabia,” said Ukrainian MP Zheleznyak. The delegation includes the head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. It was not only over the weekend that Ukraine experienced massive disruptions in the operation of Visa and Mastercard: it was impossible to pay with a card in supermarkets.
From a military perspective, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that more than 5,500 Ukrainian women are serving on the front line. “At the moment, there are 70,000 women servicemen in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is 20% more than in 2022.” According to Nikolai Malomuzh, a general of the Ukrainian army and head of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service from 2005 to 2010, the Russian military is trying to break through the Ukrainian defense to encircle the troops and create a bridgehead for a further offensive. Small ships are trying to enter the Sumy region existing groups.
The British newspaper The Telegraph also writes about the threat of encirclement of a group of 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region, after the offensive of the Russian armed forces near Sudzha. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he would agree to discuss a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine if it leads to progress towards a peace agreement.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “Dialogue between Russia and the United States on strategic weapons is necessary. But it is impossible to abstract from the presence of nuclear weapons in Europe during this dialogue, especially in light of Macron’s statements,” he stressed.
And now a look at the front line as of 16:00 on March 10.
In the last 24 hours, the Kursk front of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has completely collapsed. Less than 250 square meters are said to have remained under the control of Ukrainian troops. According to the Russian social sphere, the road to Sudzha is completely controlled by Russian drones. “The journey to the Sudzhansky territory is about five kilometers. And this area is completely controlled from left to right by Russian FPV drones,” the accounts of Russian fighters in the area report.
The Russians report the “liberation of the Kubatkin farm in the Kursk region”. This could have happened either after the offensive along the railway, or during the offensive beyond Martynovka. The possible loss of Kubatkin for the Ukrainian Armed Forces would also mean the loss of Pravda and Ivashkovsky”. The latest Russian updates from the front line report that “the troops advanced and liberated the village of Yuzhny, Bogdanovka and the northern part of the Cossack Loknya”. In the afternoon according to data from the social sphere: “Malaya Loknya, Loknya, Nikolsky, Lebedevka, Kositsa, Pravda, Martynovka, Kubatkin, Viktorovka, Staraya Sorochina, Cherkasy Porechnoye were liberated in the morning and reported the capture of Makhnovka near Sudzha, where they had gather the retreating Ukrainian forces; In Sudzha itself there are battles on the outskirts”. A Russian post reads: “The enemy is not allowed to retreat. The task is not to eliminate units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but to completely defeat and destroy them. The decisive push and the hardest and bloodiest battles, together with long advance preparations, have yielded such results that the beginning of this ongoing operation will go down in history”.
At night, several unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed and suppressed in two districts of the Voronezh region. Several explosions thundered over the city of Novokuybyshevsk in the Samara region. Russian forces hit a gas station with geraniums in the area of the village Lyutserna north of Zaporizhia. Explosions were also reported in the Kiev and Dnipro regions.
On the right bank of the Oskil River, north and south of Kupyansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, against the backdrop of the expansion of Russian bridgeheads, are urgently building fortifications to the west.
In Toretsk, the Ukrainians continue to send people and equipment into the gaps of the Russian defense to fight surrounded by the numerically superior forces of the Russian army.
Near Pokrovsk, Russian troops are fighting with the Ukrainian forces in counterattack in the area of the settlements of Pishchane and Shevchenko that are changing hands.
In the south, Kostyantynopil has been taken, as confirmed by numerous videos with Russian soldiers and flags of the Russian Federation in different parts of the village.
On the Zaporizhia front, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting the Ukrainians for P’yatykhatky and are approaching Zhereb’yanky, Russian aviation is helping the infantry by destroying the areas of concentration of Ukrainian forces. They report an advance in Danylivka, north of Robotyne.
Attacks against the civilian population of the Belgorod region continue, eight of which were recorded on the night of March 10.
Graziella Giangiulio
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