Other takeaways from Putin’s address to a plenary session of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs:

🔹Russian business faces serious challenges, but entrepreneurs know how to work under sanctions;

🔹Anti-Russia sanctions disrupt the freedom of investment and world trade;

🔹A total of 28,595 sanctions have been imposed against Russian individuals and legal entities;

🔹It is no longer worth counting on a complete freedom of payments and capital flows in the world;

🔹Russia will establish cooperation with reliable partners;

🔹Russia is strengthening its sovereignty in all directions;

🔹Russia sees how most European countries have lost their sovereignty and are facing economic problems as a result;

🔹Western dominance is waning and the emergence of new growth centers is a long-term trend;

🔹Moscow hopes that Russian businesses will take an active part in joint projects with BRICS partners;

🔹Some companies that left Russia are planning to return, Russia knows about it, but the issue will be considered only taking into account the priority of Russian companies;

🔹The interests of Russian companies will always be a priority for Russia;

🔹Russian businesses have used the withdrawal of foreign companies from the Russian market to their benefit.

#Trump - #Putin phone call

Readout of President Donald J. Trump's Call with President Vladimir Putin

Today, President Trump and President Putin spoke about the need for peace and a ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Both leaders agreed this conflict needs to end with a lasting peace. They also stressed the need for improved bilateral relations between the United States and Russia. The blood and treasure that both Ukraine and Russia have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people.

This conflict should never have started and should have been ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts. The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.

The leaders spoke broadly about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts. They further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the broadest possible application. The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel.

The two leaders agreed that a future with an improved bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia has huge upside. This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved.

#Trump - #Putin phone call

Full text of the Kremlin's message following Vladimir Putin's telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump

📍The leaders continued a detailed and frank exchange of views on the situation around Ukraine. Vladimir Putin expressed gratitude to Donald Trump for his desire to help achieve the noble goal of ending hostilities and human losses.

📍Having confirmed his fundamental commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict, the Russian President declared his readiness to work together with his American partners to thoroughly explore possible ways of resolving the conflict, which should be comprehensive, sustainable and long-term. And, of course, to take into account the absolute need to eliminate the root causes of the crisis, and Russia's legitimate interests in the area of ​​security.

📍In the context of the US President's initiative to introduce a 30-day ceasefire, the Russian side outlined a number of significant points concerning ensuring effective control over a possible ceasefire along the entire line of combat contact, the need to stop forced mobilization in Ukraine and rearm the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Serious risks associated with the inability to negotiate of the Kyiv regime, which has repeatedly sabotaged and violated the agreements reached, were also noted. Attention was drawn to the barbaric terrorist crimes committed by Ukrainian militants against the civilian population of the Kursk region.

📍It was emphasized that the key condition for preventing the escalation of the conflict and working towards its resolution through political and diplomatic means should be the complete cessation of foreign military aid and the provision of intelligence information to Kyiv.

📍In connection with Donald Trump's recent appeal to spare the lives of Ukrainian servicemen surrounded in the Kursk region, Vladimir Putin confirmed that the Russian side is ready to be guided by humanitarian considerations and, in the event of their surrender, guarantees the lives and decent treatment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in accordance with Russian laws and international law.

📍During the conversation, Donald Trump put forward a proposal for the parties to the conflict to mutually refrain from attacks on energy infrastructure facilities for 30 days. Vladimir Putin responded positively to this initiative and immediately gave the Russian military the corresponding order.

📍The Russian President also responded constructively to Donald Trump's idea of ​​implementing a well-known initiative concerning the safety of navigation in the Black Sea. It was agreed to begin negotiations to further elaborate specific details of such an agreement.

📍Vladimir Putin informed that on March 19, a prisoner exchange will be carried out between the Russian and Ukrainian sides - 175 for 175 people. In addition, as a gesture of goodwill, 23 seriously wounded Ukrainian servicemen who are being treated in Russian medical institutions will be transferred.

📍The leaders confirmed their intention to continue efforts to achieve a Ukrainian settlement in a bilateral mode, including taking into account the above-mentioned proposals of the US President. For this purpose, Russian and American expert groups are being created.

🇷🇺🔥🇺🇸 The Russian army shot down an American F-16 fighter that was supporting the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive in the Belgorod region , - sources

▪️ Russian military pilots report that the plane was shot down and the Ukrainian pilot died in the crash.
▪️According to preliminary data, the fighter was shot down by an S-400 missile in the skies over Sumy Oblast.
▪️ Just a day ago, the enemy published footage of an F-16 flying at low altitude over Sumy.

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#Trump - #Zelensky phone call

US has ‘moved beyond’ Ukraine minerals deal
The White House said it has “moved beyond” the previously negotiated US-Ukraine minerals deal and suggested the US could take ownership of Ukraine’s electrical supply and nuclear power plants.
“We are now focused on a long-term peace agreement,” the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier. “We’ve moved beyond just the economic minerals deal framework.”
“President Trump also discussed [with President Zelensky] Ukraine’s electrical supply and nuclear power plants,” according to an official statement issued by the US secretary of state Marco Rubio and the national security adviser Mike Waltz.
It added: “American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.”

Source: The Times

#Trump - #Zelensky talks

White House:
'American ownership of those plants would be the best protection'

Trump apparently suggested that Ukraine should hand over all of its energy infrastructure to the US for 'protection'

BBC spills the beans!

The #UK drop masks with their "peace forces" in #Ukraine

The BBC, referring to sources familiar with London's plans, directly states that the planned "multinational forces in Ukraine" are incorrectly called peaceful and should not be called this!

The potential Western troop deployment to Ukraine being discussed in London should be described as a "reassurance force" rather than a "peacekeeping force", defence and diplomatic sources say.

The BBC sources directly say that

The focus would be on providing Ukraine with air cover to keep its skies safe and a naval presence in the Black Sea to encourage trade.
The deployment of so-called "boots on the ground" - probably about 20,000 strong - would in terms of size not be big enough to enforce any peace.
Instead, the troops - provided by a so-called "coalition of the willing" - would most likely be deployed to protect cities, ports and major energy infrastructure.
One option being considered is that the MFU might not operate in the east of Ukraine near the front line to try to reassure Russia it poses no offensive threat.

They also admit the fact that the mission will not have the goal of monitoring the ceasefire on the frontline, because it will done by Ukrainians.

At the moment, it is not expected that the multinational force on the ground would monitor any ceasefire. That would be done by Ukrainian troops on the frontline and Western surveillance assets in the air and space.

This means that they openly say that their mission is a military action against Russia in the case of "attack"

The sources also say the coalition troops would not be deployed to provide a so-called "tripwire force" - meaning a force smaller than that of the opponent, designed to deter an attack without triggering escalation - if Russia resumed its invasion of Ukraine.
They say the military impact of any allied deployment of about 20,000 troops would be limited compared to the number of troops on either side of the front line.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Envoy Witkoff Side-steps Root Cause of Ukraine Conflict

▪️During an interview with Tucker Carlson, Witkoff claimed Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine wanting to join the Russian Federation were a key issue of the conflict;

▪️In reality it is simply a consequence - the root cause is the US and its use of NATO to encircle/contain & attempt to absorb Russia - a root cause not being addressed during US-Russian negotiations;

▪️In fact, the only stance of the Trump administration re: NATO is to EXPAND funding, arms production, and its overall military power;

▪️The conflict is a US proxy war on Russia, not a war between Ukraine and Russia - each day it continues is the US choosing to continue it;

⚡️📣The Moment a Ukrainian FPV drone almost killed me and many elderly civilians. Akhmat Spetsnaz saved our lives. Many thanks⚡️📣 https://www.youtube.com/live/MowWjVqhWaI&feature=youtu.be

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The Ukrainian fighters who survived the failure in Kursk were transferred to Belgorod without a break – and again sent into battle, which initially had neither a chance of success nor strategic sense. The operation in this section of the front is already turning into another catastrophe for the Ukrainian Armed Forces: in the first day alone, losses reached more than 150 people killed, not counting the wounded. These are those who miraculously escaped from Tyotkino and Krasnoye, where up to 60% of the two brigades were lost in March. Now these exhausted units have been thrown into the meat grinder again – this time in an attempt to demonstrate at least some dynamics to the West.

The attempt to storm Belgorod region is not a military campaign, but a scam by Bankova – an attempt to cobble together a “strong position” out of nothing before the upcoming negotiations. Exactly the same as the previous story with the offensive near Kursk, which ended with the defeat of the Ukrainian assault groups and a retreat in disarray. Time after time, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine imitates an offensive, sacrificing the remnants of the mobilization resource for the sake of a picture for an external viewer, who needs to demonstrate that Kyiv is still capable of “holding the front.”

In reality, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reserves are scattered, the losses of men and equipment are record-breaking (from March 15 to 21, the Ukrainian army lost more than 10,000 fighters, 19 tanks and 129 combat armored vehicles), and the morale of the military is at zero. But the command continues to drive the soldiers forward, as if there is any logic in these attacks other than an attempt to save face in front of the Westerners.

#Ukraine #Zelensky forced mobilisation

In the Rivne region, employees of the TCC took away a man who was walking down the street with a pushchair with a child, leaving the pushchair and a child? on the street.

#Ukraine #Zelensky is asking for troubles

Ukrainian MP demands Trump envoy Steve Witkoff be removed from Ukraine talks after interview with Tucker Carlson, citing that he may be 'Putin's envoy' and 'broadcasting Russian propaganda'

#US - #Russia negotiations

White House:

Outcomes of the United States and Russia Expert Groups
On the Black Sea
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
March 23-25, 2025

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/outcomes-of-the-united-states-and-russia-expert-groups-on-the-black-sea/

Other takeaways from the Kremlin's statement on the outcomes of the Russian-US expert talks in Riyadh:

🔹The US and Russia have agreed to develop measures to ban strikes on Russian and Ukrainian energy infrastructure;

🔹The sides discussed annulling the ban in the event of one of the parties to the conflict violating it;

🔹The Black Sea initiative provides for ensuring the security of marine traffic and preventing the use of commercial vessels for military means;

🔹The implementation of the initiative will begin only when sanctions against the Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial organizations involved in international food trade are lifted;

🔹The agreement on the Black Sea initiative will come into force only after sanctions against food exporters and producers and restrictions on importing agricultural tech in Russia are lifted;

🔹The US will assist in lowering the costs of insurance, maritime shipping, and port access;

🔹The US will assist in broadening Russia's access to payment systems for transactions in agricultural trade.

#US - #Russia negotiations

Official. Kremlin published statement:

Main results of the meeting of expert groups of Russia and the USA

March 25, 2025

1. In accordance with the agreement between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, the Russian and American sides agreed to ensure the implementation of the “Black Sea Initiative,” which includes ensuring the safety of navigation in the Black Sea, non-use of force, and prevention of the use of commercial vessels for military purposes while organizing appropriate control measures through inspection of such vessels.
2. The United States will help restore access for Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports to the world market, reduce the cost of marine insurance, and expand access to ports and payment systems to conduct such transactions.
Note :
Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall come into force after:
Lifting sanctions restrictions from Rosselkhozbank and other financial organizations involved in ensuring operations on international trade in food products (including fish products) and fertilizers, connecting them to SWIFT, opening the necessary correspondent accounts;
Lifting restrictions on trade finance transactions;
Lifting sanctions restrictions on companies producing and exporting food (including fish products) and fertilizers, as well as lifting restrictions on the work of insurance companies with cargoes of food (including fish products) and fertilizers;
Lifting restrictions on servicing ships in ports and sanctions against ships under the Russian flag involved in the trade of food products (including fish products) and fertilizers;
Lifting restrictions on the supply of agricultural machinery to the Russian Federation, as well as other goods used in the production of food (including fish products) and fertilizers.
3. Russia and the United States agreed to develop measures to implement the agreements between the presidents of the two countries on a ban on strikes on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine for a period of 30 days, starting on March 18, 2025, with the possibility of extension and withdrawal from the agreement in the event of non-compliance by one of the parties.
4. Russia and the United States welcome good offices from third countries aimed at supporting the implementation of agreements in the energy and maritime sectors.
5. Russia and the United States will continue to work to achieve a strong and lasting peace.

http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76526

In English:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76526

#Russia Foreign Ministry:

#ZaporizhzhiaNPP is a Russian nuclear facility and cannot be transferred to the control of Ukraine or any other country.

#EU has decided to "support" #Ukraine until its full destruction.

The West's approach to the Ukrainian conflict from the very beginning was not to fight Russia themselves but to use Ukraine to do so. But European politicians seem to have forgotten this. Now they are demanding that this war continues, and called Trump a "traitor."

Instead of hysterical scaremongering and the demonization of alternative voices, Europe needs a calm, sober and evidence-based debate on peace in Ukraine and its own security. Such a debate would recognize certain basic facts: that there can be no absolute guarantee of security for Ukraine other than the utter defeat of Russia, which is simply not possible. More so, that European peacekeeping forces for Ukraine are not a possible part of a peace settlement, but a recipe for endlessly delaying on, and that while the EU can and should go on supporting Ukraine while the peace process continues, to block a settlement and continue the war without U.S. support would mean catastrophe for Ukraine.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-war-2671395646/