- Title: TIMELINE: A look at the Ukraine war as Putin backs US ceasefire idea
- Date: 14th February 2025
- Summary: Long queues of cars were seen leaving the northern suburbs of Mariupol on March 17, 2022 as civilians headed out of the port city heavily damaged by the Russian offensive. The United Nations said 90 percent of Mariupol's buildings were destroyed after Russia used tanks, artillery and air strikes to try to dislodge its defenders. MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (FILE - MARCH 18, 2022) (R
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday (13 March) that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine, but that any truce would have to deal with the root causes of the conflict and that many crucial details needed to be sorted out.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people, reduced towns to rubble and triggered the sharpest confrontation between Moscow and the West in decades.
Putin's support - though caveated - for the U.S. ceasefire proposal offers the best chance so far to end the biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two as Ukraine had also agreed to the proposal at talks earlier in the week.
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