Russia is about to besiege Ukrainian forces in Kursk Nouvelles

On Friday, open source cards showed that Russian forces are about to besieged thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, who entered the Russian CORSC region last summer, and isolated them from their main supply lines, while Washington reaffirmed its intention to end the war as soon as possible.

The cards themselves have shown the deterioration of the situation of Ukraine in the Kursk region in the last three days after the Russian forces have found land as part of an intense anti-Ancian attack which divided Ukrainian forces into two halves.

The dangerous situation of Ukraine raises the possibility of forcing its forces to retire in Ukraine or risking captivity or killing at a time when kyiv undergoes increasing pressure from the United States to accept a cease-fire with Russia.

“The situation for Ukraine is very bad,” the Black Bird Group, based in Finland, told Reuters Passi Barwinin. He added: “Now there is much left before the Ukrainian forces are surrounded or forced to withdraw. The withdrawal means fighting a dangerous battle, because the forces will be subject to the constant threat of Russian drones and artillery.”

There has been no official confirmation of Russian progress from the Russian Defense Ministry or the Ukrainian army, which both tend to delay changes in the battlefield.

Other developments

In other developments on the ground, prosecutors in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine said that 5 residents of the region had been killed today, on Friday, in Russian attacks on a number of villages.

In a letter at the request for a telegram, they added that a resident had been killed in the city of Boukrovsk, a pivotal point for Russian progress west of the Donetsk region.

Two people were killed in attacks against villages near the city of Costiannevka in the Northeast, while another fell into a village near the city of Korakhaf, which, according to the Russian army, had taken control in January.

The Russian forces are progressing slowly, but regularly in the Donetsk region as part of a campaign to control the Donbas, which consists of the areas of Donetsk and Logansk.

For its part, the Associated Press quoted officials that Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities on dozens of missiles and walks, noting that the Russian attack led to Ukraine’s capacity to provide energy to its citizens and to exploit arms factories for its defenses.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia had used 194 drones and 67 missiles of different types in a joint attack and that it had a little more down, while another third of another did not reach its objectives and caused no damage.

According to Russian statements, the attack on gas infrastructure in Ukraine has been targeted.

Ukrainian Naftazaz reported damage to gas production facilities.

Political movements

Politically, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had a telephone call to his Ukrainian counterpart André Siabia and informed him that President Donald Trump was determined to end the war between Russia and Ukraine as soon as possible.

The US State Department said in a statement: “The Minister stressed that President Trump stressed that all parties were to take action to ensure permanent peace”.

On Friday, Trump declared on his platform of “social truth” which he found the dealing with “easier” Russia than to face Ukraine in the context of efforts to end the war and that he had confidence that Russian president Vladimir Putin “wants to end the war”.

“I believe it,” said Trump.

For his part, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski reported on Friday his call to a truce in the air and the sea, and he saw during the recent raids that took place in the midst of talks on a possible ceasefire, new proofs of the lack of Moscow will to go to a path of peace.

“The first steps to establish a real peace should be to force the only source of this war, that is to say Russia, to end these attacks,” Zellinski wrote to X, calling for “stopping” the use of missiles and distant marches and air bombs.

“Intensive work has been accomplished with President Trump’s crew throughout the day on several levels with several calls. The title is clear: peace as soon as possible,” said Zellinski in his daily speech on social networks.

On Monday, Zellinski will visit Saudi Arabia to meet Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, on the eve of a meeting that will be held next Tuesday between an American delegation and another Ukrainian, in order to end the war between kyiv and Moscow.

The meeting of the American and Ukrainian delegations aims to determine the “executive of a peace and transfer agreement”, according to the American delegate in the Middle East Steve Witkev.

US officials and senior Russians, including foreign ministers from the two countries, Marco Rubio and Russian Sergey Lavrov, have had talks in Riyadh aimed at reforming tense relations between Washington and Moscow, and discussing Ukraine, in preparation for a possible summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

And Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he supported the idea of ​​the armistice “in the air and the sea” suggested by Zelinski as soon as possible to strengthen confidence between the two parties “, and again offered discussions on the organization between Russia and Ukraine.