These are the most important developments on day 1.111 of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Tuesday, March 11:
Battle
- A civilian was killed and three more have been reported to one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow for months.
- The mayor of Moscow Sergei Sebyanin said that Russian air defense units had destroyed at least 69 drones who fly to Moscow in a “massive” attack, in which reports later participated more than 90 drones.
- Four airports in the Moscow region and the Domodedovo train network were forced to suspend services due to the attack. Several apartments were also damaged, while the Russian Tass news agency in a parking lot near the Russian capital reported a big fire.
- Pro-Russian war bloggers said that the Kremlin arms forces continued to go into the country’s Course Region as part of a large conversion surgery in order to sell thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in Russia.
- Kyiv’s top general Oleksandr Syrskii denied that his troops were surrounded by Russian armed forces, and added that the situation was under control. However, the Ukrainian troops had to be reinforced, “including electronic warfare and unmanned components,” said Syrskii.
- The Ukrainian military said that it shot 130 out of 176 Russian drones that had started Russia overnight, while another 42 did not achieve their destinations.
- Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian border guards of Ukraine, said Russian troops tried to create an active combat zone in the northeastern region of Sumy in Ukraine across the border from Russian Course region.
- The Russian Ministry of Emergency said that a big fire broke out in the southern region of Samara in Russia due to a Ukrainian drone attack. No injuries were reported.
- The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces stated that two Russian oil refineries in the Ryazan region and in the Samara region, the Moscow Army exerted.
- Three people were killed and nine wounded by a Ukrainian attack on the village of Belaya in the district of Belovski in the Russia region, said the governor of the region, Alexander Khinshtein,.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio traveled to Saudi Arabia before the talks between Kyiv and Washington to end the Russian war against Ukraine.
- The AFP news agency, citing a Ukrainian official, said Kyiv plans, while the talks in Saudi Arabia have a part of a part of the air and navals with Russia.
- A high -ranking source of the Ukrainian government also announced AFP that Russia had received a significant advantage against Kyiv during the break of the US break to share military intelligence agencies with Ukrainian armed forces.
- The special representative of the United States in the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Washington is expecting considerable progress in discussions with Ukraine this week, including the signing of the rare earth.
- Witkoff also said that the intelligence parts with Ukraine will also be discussed in the meetings of this week, but claimed that the United States never had the Ukrainian officials to maintain the secret service for defense needs.
- In discussions with the United States, Zelenskyy promised a fully “constructive” position of Ukraine and added that his country hopes for practical results from the negotiations in Saudi Arabia about the end of the Russian war against his country.
- The Russia’s FSB security service said that two diplomats from the United Kingdom were excluded on suspicion of espionage from Russia. The Kremlin said that the proven were the second secretary of the British embassy and the husband of the first secretary.
- Prime Minister Keir Starrer’s office said that the United Kingdom has plans to organize virtual discussions among nations managers who are willing to help with an armistice in Ukraine.
