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ceasefire with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The drill came only a few hours after <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/russia\/\">Russia<\/a> set a number of conditions before <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/25\/ukraine-russia-agree-black-sea-ceasefire-deal-saudi-talks-22791066\/\">going ahead with a ceasefire in the Black Sea<\/a>, amid ongoing tumultuous talks involving the US to try and bring about a longer-term ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>But in case the world forgot about Russia\u2019s military might, its Ministry of Defence said missiles fired from the Ufa diesel-electric submarine hit its target in the Khabarovsk region, as well as a surface target in the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, praised the submarine\u2019s crew for the success of the missile launch.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s peace talks in Saudi Arabia, brokered by the White House, concluded when Russia agreed to\u00a0\u2018ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"362\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22794471 lazyload\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin staged war games in a warning to the West as his Pacific Fleet submarine Ufa launched Kalibr cruise missiles during exercises in the Sea of Japan.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_245197298-5d29.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Putin\u2019s Pacific Fleet submarine Ufa launched Kalibr cruise missiles during exercises in the Sea of Japan (Picture: MoD Russia\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s defence minister Rustem Umerov said Ukraine has also agreed to the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>However, among other demands Putin ordered for sanctions to be lifted on Rosselkhozbank and other banks involved in food trade, trade finance operations, and food and fertiliser exporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian president <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\/\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> thanked the White House for its help in brokering the deal, but said Russia must now \u2018prove\u2019 it is <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/russia-ukraine-conflict\/\">ready to end the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u2018How Russia behaves in the coming days will show a lot, if not everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If there are air alerts again, if there is military activity in the Black Sea again, if there are Russian manipulations and threats again, then new measures will have to be taken \u2013 specifically against Moscow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22794488 lazyload\" alt=\"Kalibr missile\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_245193908-dccb.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>A Kalibr cruise missile (Picture: east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Diplomacy must work. We, on the Ukrainian side, are doing everything we can to achieve this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I want to thank everyone who is helping us. Thank you to America for the fact that our teams are working constructively and effectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We need results from Russia. We don\u2019t believe them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The world really doesn\u2019t believe Russia. And they must prove that they are ready to end the war and are ready not to lie to the world, not to lie to Trump, not to lie to America.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"360\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22794485 lazyload\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin staged war games in a warning to the West as his Pacific Fleet submarine Ufa launched Kalibr cruise missiles during exercises in the Sea of Japan.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_245197057-489c.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The Russian Navy says the missile struck its target more than 600 miles away (Picture: MoD Russia\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile US president Donald Trump, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/07\/17\/donald-trump-reveals-how-hed-end-the-russia-ukraine-war-in-24-hours-19144320\/\">previously claimed he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day<\/a>, admitted that <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/19\/vladimir-putin-isnt-negotiating-donald-trump-laughing-22756751\/\">Putin could be trying to delay a ceasefire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He told Newsmax: \u2018I think that Russia wants to see an end to it, but it could be they\u2019re\u00a0dragging their feet. I\u2019ve done it over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think Russia would like to see it end and I think Zelensky would like to see it end, at this point.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"361\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22794484 lazyload\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin staged war games in a warning to the West as his Pacific Fleet submarine Ufa launched Kalibr cruise missiles during exercises in the Sea of Japan.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_245197267-0cb2.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The Ufa submarine (Picture: MoD Russia\/east2west news)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The agreement is a sharp turn from earlier this week when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0tried to sink a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/02\/putin-unleashes-ballistic-missiles-foreign-ships-carrying-weapons-ukraine-22654782\/\">container ship reportedly carrying a cargo of weapons destined for Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles were unleashed on a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/black-sea\/\">Black Sea<\/a>\u00a0port in the southern city of Odesa where the vessel had arrived after making a stop in Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Facilities at the three Black Sea ports around the city have been frequent Russian targets in the three-year-long war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T1M49S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/26\/09\/96580995-0-image-a-10_1742982790810.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-03-26T09:54:13+0000″,”description”:”A Russian submarine launched powerful Kalibr missiles during drills in the Sea of Japan.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/03\/26\/2088876936736059576\/480x270_MP4_2088876936736059576.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener(‘metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded’, function(data) { if (typeof(data.detail) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === ‘undefined’) { return; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}