Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,123

The Sunday, March 23 newsstand features a roundup of significant events.

Fighting

• One person was killed in a drone attack on a car in Rostov, in the country’s southern region, according to acting governor Yury Slyusar.

diplomacy and politics

As meetings with American officials are scheduled to start in Saudi Arabia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he met with the country’s top military commanders in the northeast of Ukraine.
• In the upcoming two days, US National Security Council members Andrew Peek and Michael Anton will travel to Saudi Arabia to meet with Russian and Ukrainian officials.
• Before the US mediators meet Ukrainian and Russian representatives in a bid to put an end to the three-year conflict, Senator Grigory Karasin, head of the Russian delegation, told state media.
• Russian and US experts are scheduled to talk about ways to ensure the safety of shipping through the Black Sea during the discussions, according to the Kremlin.
• Pyongyang shouldn’t be rewarded for its wrongdoings in order to put an end to the Ukrainian war, according to South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul, and military cooperation between North Korea and Russia must stop.