The Russian Vladimir Putin president visited a Kursk’s Kursk order, where his army chief told Moscow forces to return to the Ukrainian region.
Putin’s visit comes only hours after Ukraine agreed A US suggestion for a 30-day stop-stop In its war with Russia.
He commanded the army to drive Ukrainian forces outside the region “at the shortest time possible” and consider placing a buffer zone on Wednesday.
Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Russia’s General Staff, told Putin that Russia had captured 400 Ukrainian soldiers and retaken 86 per cent of the territory seized by Kyiv in a surprise assert last summer, after Ukraine’s defense collapsed in recent days.
Putin said prisoners should be treated “human” but warned any remaining Ukrainian fighters who were considered “terrorists”.
After meeting Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials and US support a month of cessation of combat throughout the Ukrainian frontline.
The footage arrived when Putin arrived at the GROUP troop command in the Kursk region.
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In return, the US continues with military and mental assistance to Kyiv military suspended after bust-up last month between Donaldmyr Zelenskyy.
In a low on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president describes the US officials meeting in Jeddah as “pleasant”. He said the 30-day ceasefire was a US suggestion that he agreed to after talking with his team.
“I often say no one of us trusts Russians, but we don’t play with accounts that claim we don’t want this war,” Zelenskyy said.
“I’m very serious… And I want to see it to the US president,” he said. “So my reaction is to say we’re ready in the 30-day drop-up format suggested by Americans.”
Ukrainian president says support from other countries should keep the ceasefire on 1,000km-long frontline.
The Russian state media has been shared on Wednesday said Russian soldiers indicated at the Sudzha center, the main municipality in which Ukraine had set up a command center.
In February, Zelenskyy pressed Russia’s territories held by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region available as a bargained chip in securities.
“I don’t think they are willing to stop Sudzha,” said Solomiia Bobrovska, a Ukrainian opposition MP and Member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee. “Every time Russians have signed something, they immediately began an annoying operation”.
Deptstate, a trailing group in Ukraine near Ukrainian defense ministry, updated the conflict map on Wednesday Puzeka without control over the Ukrainian forces.
Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukraine’s military continued to fulfill the regional chores of Kurss but also added that Russian intensified its attacks.
“Our command did everything to preserve the life of our troops,” he said.
consideration UkraineA ceasefire set as Ukrainian forces suffer from military deficiencies there are ill echoes. In February 2015, Moscow forces Kyiv to sign a ceasefire like its troops surrounding the Eastern City of Debaltse in Ukrainian.
Russia has repeatedly violated the ceasefire – a leading Zelenskyy brought to the White House, who prompted the trumpet to lose the end of the leader in the Ukraination to end the conflict.
“Putin try to fill Trump’s ears free, and Trump should decide what he does next,” says Mykhailo Samus, a military analyst. He added that the US president has probably offered Moscow to lift the Western sanctions in exchange for a cessation.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House Press Secretary, told journalists on Wednesday that the US National Security Mike Waltz counselor talked to his Russian counterpart. “The President’s team continues to participate” in the ceasefire plan, he added.
Ukrainian officials and European Allies on Wednesday accepted the restoration of The US military aid And sharing the intelligence used by Kyiv’s forces to hit targets beyond the line.
“This is a significant signal in the whole world that Ukraine’s support is not buffalo,” Andriy Yermak, Zedenskyy’s main help and leader in Jeddah, wrote the telegram.
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says Wednesday that US Transit Satraine supplies Via Poland pays Poland for part of that service in Ukraine.
The British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appreciated Trump and Zelenskyy for their “extraordinary collapse in a ceasefire and ending fight.”
Starmmer leads the French president Emmanuel Macron with a strong European assurance that “Starmer strikes to attack again.

Kremlin said to want to hear directly from the US before commenting on suggestion to cease. Putin Dmitry Peskov’s spokesman said Wednesday that Russia expects the US to “let us know the details of the talks and the agreements that have been reached”.
A call between Putin and Trump will be organized “very quickly”, says Peskov, but added that the White House has never asked one.
Russia’s SVR Foreign Intelligence Service said on Wednesday that its director sergei naryshkin had spoken by phone with his US counterpart, CIA chief John Ratcliffe, with the two agencies agreeing to keep up regular contact.
The Konstantin Kosachev, Chair of Russia committees in Russian affairs committees in the long house, saying that the “Ukrainians agree with what they say”, adding that it does not happen in Russia, because “Russia is in sin”.
Although Russian forces continue to maintain the Kurss region, the development of the rest of the front line. Ukrainian troops handle recent days to prevent Russian attacks around Pokrovsk, and even the contests of Torsetsk, an industrial city Russia reached August.
In front of Pokrovsk, a drator draft responds to the news of the proposed ceasefire in a Ukrainian word: “Pobachymo “ – “We see.”
Max Seddon added to Berlin, Minder Minder in Warsaw and Henry Foy in Brussels; Cartography by Steven Bernard