These are the key developments of 1,124 of the Russian war in Ukraine.
Here is the summary of key events on Monday, March 24.
Combat
- Ukraine’s air force said he destroyed 97 of 147 Russian drones in a night attack in various Ukrainian regions. It was assumed that 25 other drones were « lost » due to the electronic war.
- The Russian Interfax news agency denounced the Russian Ministry of Defense, which said that their forces captured the people of Srubne in the Eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.
- Russian attacks in the Donetsk region killed four people, including three who died on a strike in Dobropillia, a city on the first lines of the war.
- At least one person died and several injuries in an explosion at a police station in the Odesa region, in southern Ukraine, reported local media. The testimonial statements mentioned in the reports said that the explosion was caused by a woman who entered the building with an explosive device in a plastic bag.
- Russia launched her third straight attack during the night in Kiev, injuring a 37 -year -old man and damaging several houses, said Kyiv’s regional governor Mykola Kalashnyk. The man suffered injuries in the upper body and at the shrapnel’s head and then hospitalized, added Kalashnyk.
- In a separate attack in the southeast of the Zaporizhzhia region, a 54-year-old woman was injured and several Multistorey buildings were damaged, according to the region’s administration.
Politics and diplomacy
- Steve Witkoff, U.S. President’s special envoy Donald Trump for the Middle East, told Fox News that he does not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to invade Europe. « I just don’t see that I want to take all of Europe. I take it his word in that sense, » Witkoff said.
- Zelenskyy said Putin should be pressured to end his three -year invasion in Ukraine. « No matter what we talk about with our partners, we have to press Putin to give a real order to stop the strikes: what this war brought must remove – » he said in a publication on social media.
- Ukrainian and North -American officials gathered in Saudi Arabia to discuss a partial cessation in the midst of Moscow warnings that negotiations would be « difficult » despite Washington’s hopes for « real progress ».
- Ukraine Minister of Defense, Rusem Umerov, said that delegations « worked through various complex technical issues », but described negotiations as « productive and focused ».
- He also said that discussions included proposals to protect Ukraine’s energy facilities and critical infrastructure. « We addressed key points, including energy, » Umerov wrote to X, reiterating that the goal was a « just and lasting peace ».
- Reuters news agency reported that the United States delegation plans to look for progress toward the cessation of the Black Sea and a wider stoppage of violence when Washington sits with Moscow in Saudi Arabia on Monday.
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