Vladimir Putin visits Kursk when Russia is pushing Ukrainian troops in the captured region

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the command post in Kursk, where his head of the army told him that Moscow’s forces were on the verge of overcoming the border region.

Putin’s visit took place a few hours after Ukraine agreed with our proposal 30-day ceasefire In war with Russia.

He ordered the army to expel Ukraine’s troops from the region “in the shortest possible time” and to consider creating a buffer zone along the border, state television reports on Wednesday.

As the defense of Ukraine collapsed in recent days, Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the Russian General Staff, said Putin that their country had captured 400 soldiers and repeated 86 percent of the territory confiscated by Kiev as a result of an unexpected attack last year.

Putin said that the prisoners should be treated “humane”, but warn that the rest of the Ukrainian fighters would be considered “terrorists”.

Following a meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Ukrainian and US officials supported the monthly cessation of hostilities across the Ukrainian frontline.

In return, the United States has resumed military assistance and intelligence with Kiev, which were rejected after restructuring last month in the Oval office between Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelensky.

At a briefing on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president called a meeting with US officials “constructive”. He said the 30-day ceasefire is the US proposal to which he agreed after contact with his team.

“I have repeatedly said that none of us trusted the Russians, but we are not going to play with the stories, claiming that we do not want this war to end,” Zelensky said, adding that “seriously” about the planned truce.

The President of Ukraine said the support of other countries will be required to control the ceasefire along the front line 1000 km long.

In February, Zelensky insisted that the Russian territories conducted by the Ukrainian forces in Kursk could be used as a conversation in peace talks.

But when Ukraine is fighting for the protection of the occupied region, the state subsidiary shared the personnel on Wednesday, which, he said, showed that Russian soldiers at the center of the court, the main municipality where Ukraine created the team center.

“I do not think they will be ready to stop in the courts,” said Bobrovsk, Ukrainian opposition and member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee.

Alexander Sirski, Commander -in -Chief of Kiev, said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian troops were distracted from Kursk. “My priority has been and remains to save the life of Ukrainian soldiers. For this, our forces can maneuver to more profitable lines,” he wrote in Telegram.

The fight continued in Kursk, including the suburbs of the court, Sirski added.

During UkraineThe ceasefire is in the same way as the Ukrainian forces suffer from military failures, has painful reviews. In February 2015, Moscow pressed Kiev to sign the ceasefire as soon as its troops surrounded the eastern Ukrainian city of Deallet.

Russia has repeatedly violated that the ceasefire agreement was Zelensky’s precedent, which was raised in the White House, which made Trump conclude that the Ukrainian leader was not interested in ending the conflict.

“Putin will try to fill Trump’s ears with nothing, and Trump will have to decide what he is doing next,” said Mikhail Samus, a Ukrainian military analyst. He added that the US president is likely to propose Moscow to raise Western sanctions in exchange for ceasefire.

Carolyn Levit, a White House press, said on Wednesday that the US national security adviser Mike Waltz talked to his Russian counterpart. “The president’s team continues to engage” in terms of ceasefire, she added.

Ukrainian officials and European allies welcomed the restoration on Wednesday US military assistance And exchange of intelligence that Kiev is used to achieve goals outside the line.

“This is an important signal for the whole world that Ukraine’s support is intact,” the Telegram, Chief Assistant and Leader of the Ukrainian Delegation in Ukraine in Jedi wrote.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said on Wednesday that the transit of the US military supplies to Ukraine through Poland “returned to the preliminary level”, as well as the Satellite Communication Satellite Communication, owned by Trump’s advisers Elon Musk. Poland pays for part of this service to Ukraine.

British Prime Minister Sir Kire St. Stermer congratulated Trump and Zelensky for “excellent breakthrough”, adding: “Russia must agree to ceasefire and stop fighting.”

Starmer said he would restore European leaders on Saturday, “to discuss the following steps” in terms of “confidence strength” posted to Ukraine to stop Russia from the attack again.

The Kremlin said he wanted to hear directly from the US before commenting Offer to cease fire. Putin’s press -secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Russia expects that the United States will “inform us of the details of the negotiations and the agreements reached.”

The call between Putin and Trump can be organized “very quickly,” Pesko said, but added that the White House has not yet asked.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR said on Wednesday that its director Sergei Nariskin talked to his American, CIA Chief John Ratklif, and two agencies agreed to maintain regular contacts.

Even when the Russian forces continued to press the Kursk region, the progress on the rest of the front seemed to stagnate. In recent days, Ukrainian troops managed to restrain Russian attacks around the Pokrovsk material and technical center and launched bold counterattack towards the Tarets Center, industrial urban Russian forces reached in August.

At the Pokrovsk Front, one drone operator responded to the news of the proposed ceasefire with one Ukrainian word: “Pobachymo “ – “We will see.”

Additional report by Raphael Minder in Warsaw, Henry Foya in Brussels and Felius Schwartz in Washington; Stephen Bernard’s cartography