March 14, 2025 (EIRNS)—Prefacing a weekly meeting of permanent members of Russia’s Security Council, the main topic of which was restoring Russian-American relations, President Putin responded to a Friday morning, March 14 post by President Trump on Truth Social, appealing to the Russian President to spare the lives of the Ukrainian soldiers now surrounded by Russian troops in the Kursk region, and made clear the conditions under which that would be possible:
”[B]efore we begin our work, I would like to say that we have noted today’s appeal by the U.S. President, Mr. Trump, to spare the lives of the Ukrainian servicemen, blocked by Russian forces in the Kursk Region incursion zone.