Vladimir Putin today bragged over the completion of the defeat of Russia 'van Ukraine in the Kursk region, only one day after he has agreed to a partial ceasefire of 30 days during a phone call with Donald Trump.
During a board meeting of the office of the public prosecutor, the Despot claimed that Russian troops recently performed a number of fast, daring and effective operations and 'now' the defeat of enemy troops in the Kursk region '.
Putin said that all Ukrainian troops in the region are 'terrorists' and told his public prosecutors to start research into their actions.
“The atrocities they have committed must be brought to light, registered and thoroughly investigated,” he said.
He added: “The perpetrators – those who have given criminal orders and abused peaceful citizens – must be identified and ultimately brought to court.”
Despite the fact that last night agreed with a partially cessation -the American President Donald Trump, Putin today told his military prosecutors to promote discipline in his ranks “as the most important engine of high -battle will of troops.”
But he also followed with his promise to exchange 372 soldiers in a prisoner -swap mediated by the United Arab Emirates.
A challenging VolodyMyr Zensky promised today to 'win this war' after he accused Putin of it -the -fires -proposals -to break with deadly strikes, just a few hours after the Kremlin agreed to stop his attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
In a press conference with President Stubb of Finland in Helsinki today, the Ukrainian president said: “We are fighting for our sovereignty and our independence – we will win this war.”
Ukrainian prisoners of war (prisoners of war) after a prisoner -wap, at an unknown location in Ukraine, March 19, 2025
Loved ones greeted Ukrainian prisoners of war wrapped with national flags
Vladimir Putin today brag about the completion of the defeat of Russia 'of Ukraine in the Kursk region
Zensky attracted clear red lines for peace and insisted that his nation would not accept territorial losses as part of a peace agreement, and that the return of 'thousands' prisoners in Russia was 'unconditional'.
Trump said he had a 'very good phone call' with Zensky in their first conversation since the disastrous Oval Office meeting last month.
The two men spoke for about an hour to discuss Trump's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the conditions for a partially ceases -the fire.
“Much of the discussion was based on the call that was made with President Putin yesterday to prepare both Russia and Ukraine in terms of their requests and needs. We are very on track, “Trump said in a message about Truth Social.
Trump added that he asked State Secretary Marco Rubio and national security adviser Michael Waltz to give more details.
Both men go to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to resume peace talks, amidst the prisoner exchange.
Prisoner Swaps and the exchange of the remains of killed soldiers is one of the few cooperation between the warring countries since the Kremlin launched the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
The Kremlin announced the Swap on Tuesday, after conversations between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
This hand -out photo made and released by the state of Emergency Service of Ukraine on March 19, 2025, shows destroyed building after a Russian strike in the Bucha district of Kiev of Kyiv
View shows damaged private houses and car at a location of a Russian drone strike, amidst Russian attack on Ukraine, in the city of Hostomel, Kyiv Region, Ukraine March 19, 2025
The Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zenskyr fitted Russia of it to break the partial stakes –
President Donald Trump said he had a “very good phone call” with the Ukrainian president Volodyymyr Zenskyy
The Russian Ministry of Defense said it had handed over 175 Ukrainian prisoners of war and 22 'seriously injured' Ukrainian prisoners, while Kyiv had supplied 175 Russian prisoners in exchange.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky greeted the stock market as one of the largest of the war and said that some among the released Ukrainians' had been persecuted by Russia for fictional crimes. “
Wednesday's phone call was the first time that Zensky and Trump spoke since their argument in the Oval Office at the end of February. The two men came in a screaming game about the war with Russia, where Trump accused Zensky of being not grateful enough for the United States.
The conversations come in a sensitive time, in which Ukraine Russia accuses the energy infrastructure, only a few hours after he was agreed to a partially ceases -the fire.
While the Kremlin refused to register at a month of cease-fire plan between Trump civil servants and Ukrainian representatives in Saudi Arabia, agreed to stop attacks on crucial infrastructure.
Speaking for the first time since the call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin yesterday, Zelensky claimed that Russia had hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure last night, despite Putin's promise to avoid such goals for a month.
Both parties today accused each other of launching air strikes that claimed damaged infrastructure to be exempt under the conditions of the agreement.
Ukrainian service providers use searchlights when searching for drones in the air over the city during a Russian drone strike, in the midst of the Russian attack on Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine March 18, 2025
Destruction in Sumy, Ukraine on March 19 after Russian troops had launched seven strikes on a medical facility in the Krasnopil community
Zensky said that Ukraine could deliver a list of his facilities to be able to implement an agreement correctly, while insisting that the US supervises the ceases -fires.
Although Ukraine has tried to prove that it is in good faith in supporting American efforts to mediate a cease -fires, nowadays Russia accused the other side of the use of drones to attack an oil depot near the village of Kavkazskaya and fill a fire.
“It is absolutely clear that this is a different provocation specially drawn up by the KYIV regime, aimed at disturbing the US president's peace initiatives,” said the Ministry of Defense.
The ministry recognized shooting missiles in Ukrainian energy facilities in the Mykolaiv region, but said they were already in flight when Putin ordered to stop fire.
It said that Russian air defenses were used to shoot their own rockets.
“Putin's words are very different from reality,” Zensky hit back.
