UN counts three million refugees, Russian journalist who held up pacifist banner released

The live broadcast is conducted by Anna Wilschenon, Pierre Bouvier and Marie Slavichek.

• On the twentieth day of the war in Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 15, the Russian army is slowly advancing and, according to the Ukrainian Army General Staff, “the enemy continues to inflict missile, bomb, artillery and tank strikes on infrastructure and the civilian population.” quarters” in several large and medium-sized cities.
• Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, will be subject to a thirty-six-hour curfew starting Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. At dawn, several explosions sounded in Svyatochyn and Podil, residential areas of the city. Russian troops will be about 15 kilometers from the city center. For several days now, fighting has been going on in the northwestern outskirts, in the cities of Irpin, Gostomel or Bucha. But “Kyiv is still open to the south (…), the southern roads are passable, which allows the people of Kiev to escape and supply the capital,” according to our special correspondent Remy Hourdan.
• The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia are heading to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and seek “clear support” from the EU.
• On South, a place Mariupol, a strategic port, has been going on for more than a week. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) speaks of living conditions “which are nothing short of a nightmare”. As the fighting continues north of the metropolis, Russian missiles are destroying civilian and military buildings. IN Nikolaev, a port city on the Black Sea, shelling continues. Russian troops are closing in, but Odessa remains their target to cut off Ukraine’s access to the sea. The Russian Ministry of Defense assured, according to several official Russian agencies, that the army controlled the area around Kherson. Fallen almost ten days ago, it is the only major city under Russian control.
• To the East, the Russians are still trying to take Kharkov, the second largest city in the country, according to the army headquarters. The ICRC announces that a convoy of thirty buses is ready to leave the city Sumy, a few miles from here. Valentin Reznichenko, regional governor Dnieperclaims that the Russian army destroyed the city’s airport on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
• in human losses remains undefined. At least 636 civilians have been killed since the start of the war, according to UN estimates Sunday, underscoring that estimate would be lower than reality. About 3 million people fled the fighting and shelling, including 1.6 million children, and about 2 million people were displaced. According to the President of Ukraine, about 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, while Russia released only one report on March 2: 498 soldiers were killed.
• The fourth session of negotiations resumed on Tuesday afternoon, March 15, after a “technical break” announced late last night by head of Ukrainian negotiators Mykhailo Podolyak.
• Marina Ovsyannikova, an employee of the influential Russian public channel Channel One, held up a banner condemning the attack on Ukraine and Russian propaganda on live TV news. She may be prosecuted for “compromising the use of the Russian armed forces.”
• EU member states on Monday adopted a fourth round of sanctions against Russian companies and oligarchs. 862 people and 53 Russian businesses were already on this blacklist, which bans entry into EU territory and allows assets to be seized.

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