UA POV-Trump and Putin are expected to speak this week as the U.S. tries to broker a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, according to Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff. It would be the second publicized call between the two leaders since Trump began his second term in January.- ABC NEWS

UA POV-Russia will seek guarantees that Nato will exclude Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peace deal, a Russian deputy foreign minister said. "We will demand that ironclad security guarantees become part of this agreement," Alexander Grushko told Russian media-BBC

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UA POV-Ukraine’s gambit inside Russia drew toward a close this week much as it started last summer: quickly. A rapid Russian advance in recent days left remaining Ukrainian forces increasingly isolated under withering assaults, as they had pulled out from all but a sliver of Kursk province -WSJ

UA POV-Russia will spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region if Kyiv tells them to surrender, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump urged him to avoid a "horrible massacre" there. Ukraine denied its men were encircled-REUTERS

UA POV-In a post on X, Zelensky denies that the Ukrainian troops are encircled in Kursk and instead Russia is preparing for operations in Sumy and that everything is going according to plan for the Ukrainians - Zelensky

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UA POV-President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday accused President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia of trying to surround Kyiv’s forces in Russia’s Kursk region to improve his position amid cease-fire talks with Washington, but said that Ukraine’s forces had not been trapped. -NYT

UA POV-Europe and the US will eventually normalize relations with Russia once the fighting in Ukraine ends, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said. “It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the U.S., step by step, to restore normal relations"-POLITICO

UA POV-Putin said Ukrainian soldiers were cut off inside the invasion zone. "And if a physical blockade occurs in the coming days, then no one will be able to leave at all, there will be only two ways - to surrender or die."-REUTERS

UA POV-Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia wouldn’t agree to an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, as Moscow’s army made rapid gains toward expelling Ukraine’s forces from its Kursk region. Any pause in fighting at this point would be in Ukraine’s interests, he said-WSJ

UA POV-Land that Russia has reclaimed from Ukraine in the Kursk region as of March 11, 2025-ISW

UA POV-Russia lays out demands for talks with US on Ukraine, sources say. Those terms included no NATO membership for Kyiv, an agreement not to deploy foreign troops in Ukraine and international recognition of President Vladimir Putin's claim that Crimea and four provinces belong to Russia-REUTERS

UA POV-Document prepared for Kremlin outlines Russia’s negotiating stance The document, written in February by a Moscow-based think tank close to Russia’s Federal Security Service or FSB, lays out Russia’s maximalist demands-WP

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UA POV-The Trump administration said it would immediately lift a pause on intelligence sharing and military support to Ukraine, as Kyiv agreed to implement a 30-day cease-fire in top level talks with U.S. officials.The cease-fire plan, which is contingent on Russian acceptance-WSJ

UA POV: Saudi Arabia talks ended with a major decision that Ukraine is ready for a 30-day ceasefire

UA POV-Ukraine launched its biggest drone attack on Moscow, targeting the Russian capital and other regions, hours before senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials sat down to discuss ways to bring an end to the war, including an initial aerial cease-fire.-WSJ

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UA POV: Fox News also reports that Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine, including aid currently in transit.

UA POV-Russian forces on Sunday recaptured the settlements of Malaya Lokhnya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Kositsa in the Kursk region, the Defence Ministry said, part of an operation to evict Ukrainian troops holding chunks of territory seven months after a cross-border incursion.-REUTERS

UA POV-President Donald Trump has privately made clear to aides that a signed minerals deal between Washington and Kyiv won’t be enough to restart aid and intelligence sharing with the war-torn country, according an administration official and another U.S. official.-NBC NEWS

UA POV-Russia Pushes Ukrainian Forces Back in Kursk After U.S. Halts Support. Efforts to eject Ukrainian soldiers from Russian territory accelerate ahead of U.S.-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia-WSJ