Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,127 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine battle: Listing of key occasions, day 1,127

Right here is the roundup of key occasions as of Thursday, March 27.

Preventing

• Russian forces launched a mass drone assault on Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, Kharkiv, injuring 9 folks and inflicting appreciable harm, in line with emergency companies and Ukrainian officers.
• A Russian drone assault additionally triggered fires within the central metropolis of Dnipro, in line with regional governor Serhiy Lysak. No casualties have been instantly reported.
• The mayor of Ukraine’s southern port of Mykolaiv mentioned there have been emergency energy outages early on Wednesday within the metropolis, following an assault by Russian drones.
• The Ukrainian navy mentioned its air defence items shot down 56 of 117 drones launched by Russia.
• A Russian navy court docket handed lengthy jail sentences to 12 members of Ukraine’s Azov regiment, which led the defence of the town of Mariupol within the early months of the battle. The defendants – charged with terrorist exercise and with violently seizing or retaining energy – have been sentenced to between 13 and 23 years in jail.
• Russian state TV journalist Anna Prokofieva was killed and her cameraman Dmitry Volkov was critically injured by a landmine allegedly laid by the Ukrainian navy in Russia’s Belgorod region.

 Ceasefire

• Ukraine and Russia accused one another of flouting a truce on assaults in opposition to vitality services brokered by america after Washington introduced separate agreements on Tuesday to pause strikes within the Black Sea and in opposition to vitality targets.
• Senior Ukrainian presidential official Ihor Zhovkva mentioned Russia has attacked no less than eight Ukrainian vitality services since March 18, when Moscow says it halted such assaults.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a moratorium on attacking vitality infrastructure in Ukraine is being fulfilled by Russia’s armed forces, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed.
• The Ukrainian navy rejected as false Russian accusations that it carried out strikes on vitality services in Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk areas, in addition to in Russia-occupied Crimea.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the US instructed Kyiv that the truce offers with Russia have been efficient as quickly as they have been introduced. However the Kremlin mentioned the Black Sea ceasefire agreement wouldn’t enter power till a sanctioned Russian state financial institution was reconnected to the worldwide fee system, Swift. European leaders mentioned this is able to not occur till Russia withdraws from Ukraine.
• Talking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris upfront of a European summit to debate Ukraine, President Zelenskyy mentioned he hopes Washington has sufficient energy to press Russia into an unconditional ceasefire after Moscow put ahead its situations for the Black Sea truce.

I need to spotlight France’s efforts in serving to us defend in opposition to Russian strikes. Specifically, your “Mirages”—fight plane made in France—have carried out very properly. I’m significantly grateful for them—they’ve already change into part of our air protect and are serving to us… pic.twitter.com/ccHbSvWTKM

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 26, 2025

• The Kremlin mentioned Moscow was persevering with its intensive contact with the US and was happy with how talks with Washington had gone up to now. “We’re glad with how pragmatically and constructively our dialogue is growing and by how it’s yielding outcomes,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov mentioned.
• The US will consider calls for made by Russia after it agreed “in precept” to a US-brokered ceasefire with Ukraine within the Black Sea to permit secure navigation, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned.
• Rubio mentioned US officers would work to “extra totally perceive what the Russian place is, or what they’re asking in trade”, after which “current that” to US President Donald Trump to decide.
• Trump mentioned in an interview that he thought Russia needed to finish its battle with Ukraine, however acknowledged that Moscow might be “dragging its toes”.
• The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in Ukraine might come again on-line inside months of a ceasefire, however it could take greater than a yr to restart all six reactors, the UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi mentioned. Ukraine has accused Moscow of being incapable of managing security on the plant after what it mentioned have been stories of an enormous spillage of diesel. Russia has dismissed the stories as “faux”.
• Germany’s Overseas Minister Annalena Baerbock welcomed US mediation efforts however warned in opposition to being misled by President Putin, saying real dialogue can’t happen when ceasefires are frequently tied to new calls for and concessions.
• An settlement on freedom of navigation within the Black Sea to make sure the safety of civilian vessels and port infrastructure “will probably be an important contribution to world meals safety and provide chains”, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric mentioned.

Navy support

• President Macron mentioned France will present some two billion euros ($2.15bn) in additional navy support to Ukraine, as he accused Russia of reinterpreting and rewriting latest restricted ceasefire offers.
• NATO Secretary-Basic Mark Rutte warned the US and Europe in opposition to any temptation to “go it alone” on safety, amid elevated tensions over the way forward for the transatlantic alliance and diverging views on Russia. Rutte additionally mentioned Europe might nonetheless belief the US administration after it emerged a journalist was included in a gaggle Sign chat amongst nationwide safety aides to coordinate navy strikes on Yemen.
• Rutte cautioned there will probably be no normalisation of relations with Russia even after the battle in Ukraine is over, saying it “will take a long time” as a consequence of a “complete insecurity”.
• European efforts to create safety preparations for Ukraine are shifting from sending troops to different alternate options as they face political and logistical constraints, and the prospect of Russia and the US opposing their plans, unnamed European officers instructed the Reuters information company.

Economics

• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent instructed Fox Information that Ukraine might signal an financial deal subsequent week and President Trump won’t hesitate to boost sanctions on Russia if the necessity arises.
• Relations between Kyiv and Washington are “again on observe”, mentioned Andriy Yermak, the chief of workers to Ukraine’s president, after a fraught Oval Workplace encounter final month between the US and Ukrainian leaders.
• Italian water heating agency Ariston Holding mentioned it had retrieved possession of its Russian unit after President Putin annulled his determination from final yr to grab it in response to Western sanctions.