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Thank you. It's Thursday, the 13th of March, welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

Leading off, U.S. officials have arrived in Moscow to try and sell the Kremlin on a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine.

But Russian President Putin, well, he's already pushing back on the proposal, saying that it does not go far enough.

I know. It's shocking that Putin wouldn't just quickly agree to a ceasefire when he believes he has the upper hand and Kiev isn't holding any cards. Later in the show, as the Iranian-backed

Khutti militants of Yemen once again threatened to resume attacks on Israeli ships, the group

is taking heightened measures to safeguard their leader from suffering the same fate

as the leadership of Qasbollah and Hamas. But first, today's afternoon spotlight,

U.S. officials are in Moscow today to make a direct appeal to Russian leaders to agree to a temporary

ceasefire with Ukraine, but the talks may be doomed before they even get underway.

As we noted on this morning's PDB, Kremlin officials appeared less than enthused about the

recent U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine endorsed by leaders in Kiev, though they

had yet to issue a formal response, saying they wanted to hear more

details from the Trump administration.

Well, on Thursday, Russian President Putin gave a press conference where he said Moscow would

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