Moscow, 12 March 2025 (dpa/MIA) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that a US delegation is on its way to Moscow, following the successful talks with Ukraine about a possible ceasefire.

"We have people going to Russia right now," Trump said at a reception for Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin at the White House.

During talks between the United States and Ukraine in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on Tuesday, a Ukrainian delegation expressed willingness to agree to an immediate 30-day comprehensive ceasefire if Russia does the same.

Russia has not yet agreed to the proposal and said it would not comment publicly on the plan until it knows all the details. "First, we need to receive this information," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz have promised to provide Moscow with all the information about the negotiations between the US and Ukraine.

Trump said the talks with Kiev had been a "great success" and that "it is up to Russia now."

The US president previously said that he wants to have a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly, perhaps even this week.

Peskov said such a conversation is not out of the question and could be organized at short notice. However, there is still no clarity on the location and time for a planned personal meeting between the two heads of state.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that the acceptance of a ceasefire proposal should show that Ukraine is willing to work towards peace.

"I think that today we had to demonstrate to the whole world our readiness," he said at a press conference in Kiev.

Poland confirms restart of US aid deliveries to Kiev 

Following the talks with Ukraine, the US administration lifted the temporary halt on arms deliveries to Kiev as a gesture of goodwill.

Poland confirmed on Wednesday that deliveries via its Jasionka hub had resumed.

"I confirm that arms deliveries via Jasionka have returned to their previous level," Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski told journalists in Warsaw, standing next to his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, who had travelled to Poland directly from Jeddah.

Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport in south-eastern Poland and the railway line leading from there to nearby Ukraine are regarded as a key transport route for European and US military goods for Ukraine.

Reports: Russian troops in centre of Ukrainian-occupied Kursk town

Russian troops meanwhile continued to advance, with state media and war bloggers saying on Wednesday that they had made their way to the centre of the small Ukrainian-occupied town of Sudzha in the Kursk region of western Russia.

Pictures circulated on social media of Russian soldiers in the centre of Sudzha. The news agency Ria Novosti reported that forces had raised the Russian flag over the city hall building, citing a commander.

The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that Russian troops have also pushed Ukrainian units out of five other locations.

Sudzha was the most significant population centre in the Kursk region to come under the control of Ukrainian forces during their surprise advance into Russian territory last August.

For months, Russia has been waging fierce battles – including with the support of North Korean soldiers – to reclaim the occupied territory. Ukraine recently withdrew from several villages.

According to Ukrainian military observers, Kiev now only controls less than a sixth of the more than 1,200 square kilometres it occupied in August.

In his press conference on Wednesday, Zelensky was vague about the situation in Kursk, saying: "Our troops are fulfilling their mission in the Kursk area. The Russians are trying to exert maximum pressure."

He added that the Ukrainian military leadership is taking measures to protect its troops.

Syrians killed in Russian strike on Odessa port

Five people were killed in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Odessa and Kryvyi Rih, local authorities said on Wednesday.

Four Syrians were killed when the ship they were on was attacked in the port of Odessa, Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram. Two other people were injured.

The ship that was struck was a civilian vessel that had just been loaded with wheat for export to Algeria, he said.

In the south-eastern city of Kryvyi Rih, a woman was killed in a rocket attack, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, wrote on Telegram. Nine people were injured in the attack and damage was inflicted to the city's infrastructure, he said.

Ukrainian authorities said another man was injured in the eastern city of Dnipro and there was damage in the Kiev region as a result of drone attacks. 

The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia attacked the cities of Kryvyi Rih and Odessa with three Iskander-M missiles and launched 133 drones at the country.

In terms of the drones, 98 were shot down, it said, while the location of 20 others was lost, a common indication of electronic countermeasures.