20.54 “Of course I’m afraid, I’m a normal person, I live in Moscow and I have two children who I’m raising alone, and I’m more afraid for them than for myself.” This was admitted by Russian nowar journalist Marina Ovsyannikova to Che Tempo Che Fa on Rai3 when answering a question from Fabio Fazio. “I’m afraid that my children might be attacked at school or on the street, there are people who think differently and I’m scared,” the reporter added.
19.58 Turkish President Erdogan and Russian President Putin have agreed to hold the announced new round of talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul. This was reported by the Turkish Council Presidency quoted by Tass.
18.53 Moscow’s media regulator warned against releasing or broadcasting the interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which was released today for some Russian media outlets for the first time since the war. This is reported by Sky News.
18.32 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today accused the West of not having enough “courage” to help Ukraine and reiterated his call for planes and tanks to be sent to Kyiv. In a new video on his social media channels, Zelensky said the West was “playing pingpong in deciding who should send the jets.” “Today I spoke to the defenders of Mariupol he says . I am in constant contact with them. Their determination, heroism and steadfastness are extraordinary. If only those who have been thinking about how to send us planes for 31 days can and tanks had the ‘1% of their courage’.
17:43 “There are currently no preparations” for a possible referendum on the annexation of the selfproclaimed separatist republic of Lugansk to Moscow. This was specified by the head of the proRussian organization, quoted by Tass, who in recent hours had suspected his organization “in the near future”.
17.30 “Peace. Any initiative at national and international level must lead to the achievement of peace and stability in Ukraine and throughout Europe. In the coming weeks, the anger of the Russian army could only increase. Putin’s war must be stopped. The danger is real, Russian bombs are detonating in Ukraine, killing hundreds of civilians. Bombs explode at the borders of the EU. This violent invasion must be stopped before the war becomes even more catastrophic and before Putin takes further action. even more desperate “. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio writes on Facebook.
17:18 “I didn’t directly hear what Biden said, but I saw the position of the White House. As the EU, we do not seek regime change, it is up to Russian citizens to decide if they want it. What we want in the case of “Russia should prevent further aggression, and that is our goal: to stop Putin’s war against Ukraine”. This was stated by EU High Representative Josep Borrell, quoted by Sky News Arabia.
17.11 The next round of talks between Ukraine and the Russian Federation will take place in Turkey on March 2830 in attendance. This was announced on Facebook by one of the members of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arahamiya, reports Ukrinform. “Today at the round of video calls, it was decided to hold the next round in Turkey on March 2830,” he said.
16.37 More than 3.8 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began a month ago. However, this is shown by data from the United Nations, according to which the flow of refugees has slowed down significantly. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said 3,821,049 Ukrainians had fled the country, up 48,450 from Saturday’s figures. About 90% of them are women and children, he added. Of those who left, 2.2 million fled to Poland, around 586,000 to Romania, 349,000 to Hungary and 272,000 to Slovakia. Almost 300,000 went to Russia and another 6,300 to Belarus.
16:15 Around 2,500 people, according to a statement by the BrusselsIxelles police, and up to more than 4,000, according to an estimate by the organizers, took to the streets in Brussels this afternoon for peace in Ukraine. The Belgian agency writes it and specifies that from 1 p.m. the demonstrators gathered near the Gare du Nord, where some representatives of the numerous associations and organizations took the floor. “We demand that investment be made in the ceasefire through negotiations and active diplomacy,” said Ludo De Brabander, spokesman for the Vrede association. “Investing in negotiations is cheaper than investing in arms,” he added. Demonstrators marched to the city’s main train station under a large rainbow flag for peace.
3:13 p.m. “Any ‘false referendum’ in the temporarily occupied territories is legally irrelevant and will have no legal consequences.” This was stated by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, when commenting on the hypothesis of a referendum in the selfproclaimed separatist republic of Lugansk for the annexation to Moscow, which had recognized its independence on the eve of the conflict, together with that of Donetsk. The Kiev spokesman quoted by Ukrinform also said he was convinced that no country in the world would recognize the validity of the referendum.
14.09 Ukrainian protesters set fire to a building housing the local military district, which temporarily housed the occupying Russian military, in the Azov Sea town of Henichesk in the Kherson region.
13.31 Turkey and other nations have yet to talk to Russia to help end the war in Ukraine. Turkey’s Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said today, quoted by the Reuters website, adding that Kyiv needs more support to defend itself. “If everyone burns their bridges with Russia, who will speak to them at the end of the day?” Kalin said at the Doha International Forum, quoted by the Guardian.
12.52 French President Emmanuel Macron said he would “not use” the definition of “butcher” in reference to Vladimir Putin that American Joe Biden uses for the Russian president. Macron added that there should be no “escalation of words or deeds” regarding the war in Ukraine. The French President has announced that he will call Putin “tomorrow or the day after” to organize an evacuation of civilians from the city of Mariupol.
12.50 The United States has no strategy for regime change in Russia: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Israel after Joe Biden said yesterday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power”. “I think the President and the White House just pointed out last night that Putin cannot have the power to wage war or engage in aggression against Ukraine or anyone,” he said after the House last night. Bianca had spelled out Biden’s words. “As you hear us keep saying, we have no strategy for regime change in Moscow.”
24.12 “It is necessary to reject war as a place of death, where fathers and mothers bury their children, where men kill their brothers without even seeing them, where the powerful decide and the poor die”. That’s what the Pope said at the Angelus when he returned to pray for peace in Ukraine. “More than a month has passed since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, since the beginning of this cruel and senseless war, which, like any war, represents a defeat for everyone, for all of us,” he recalled.
12.10 Over the past 24 hours, over 30 bomb attacks on housing complexes and infrastructure have been registered in the Kyiv region. This was announced by the regional military administration of Kyiv by telegram, quoted by the UNIAN agency. “During the entire war period, destruction was recorded in 34 of the 69 municipalities in the Kyiv region, or 49.2%. A total of more than 500 targets,” said the administration.
10:57 a.m. Leonid Pasechnik, the leader of the selfproclaimed Lugansk Republic in eastern Ukraine, which Moscow recently recognized as independent along with the Donetsk Republic, said a referendum could be organized “in the near future” to decide on annexation with Russia. This is reported by the Russian authorities.
9.50 a.m The city authorities are trying to organize a “green corridor” for women and children from the city of Slavutych, where many employees of the Chernobyl power plant live, which was occupied by Russian troops yesterday. This was announced by the City Council of the city in northern Ukraine by telegram, quoted by the UNIAN agency. “Dear citizens of Slavutych, a ‘green corridor’ is planned to allow women and children to leave the city of Slavutych,” the council’s statement reads. Mayor Yuriy Fomichev confirmed that three civilians were killed in the Russian attack.
9.02 a.m. Two humanitarian corridors in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have been agreed for today (March 27). This was announced by Minister for the Reintegration of the Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk during a briefing quoted by Ukrainian Pravda. “To date, two humanitarian corridors have been agreed for the Donetsk and Lugansk regions: from the city of Mariupol to the city of Zaporizhia by its own means. While the centralized evacuation by bus from Berdyansk to Zaporizhia was agreed,” said the minister depart from Zaporizhia on this route.
8:28 a.m. Ukrainian forces have successfully repelled Russian attacks in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions (east) over the past 24 hours, the Kyiv Independent reports. During the same period, Kiev soldiers destroyed eight Russian tanks, eleven armored vehicles and other military vehicles, and one mortar. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, one plane, 12 unmanned aerial vehicles and two cruise missiles were also shot down.
8.18 a.m. 139 Ukrainian children have been killed in the war since the start of the Russian invasion, according to information from the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Telegram and quoted by Ukrinform. More than 205 children were injured.
7.59 a.m. The British Defense Ministry tweeted in its daily intelligence report on the war in Ukraine that Russian forces are trying to encircle the Ukrainian ones in front of the breakaway territories in the east of the country. At the same time, Russian soldiers are advancing from Kharkiv to the north and Mariupol to the south, but the battlefield in northern Ukraine “remains largely static as local Ukrainian counterattacks hamper Russian attempts to reorganize their forces.”
6.26 a.m. Press sources report that Ukrainian forces have gained ground and also regained control of some urban centers. According to the Kyiv Independent, the two towns of Poltavka and Malynivka in the southeastern Zaporizhia region were liberated, while it was previously reported that the Kiev military had recaptured the town of Trostyanets in the northern Sumy region.
Meanwhile, CNN reports that it has verified multiple videos showing Ukrainian troops again taking control of several villages in the Sumy region, as well as Vilkhivka, a center 32 km from the border with Russia to the northeast.
4.41 a.m. Russian General Yakov Rezantsev was killed in an attack near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. This was announced by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense quoted by the BBC. According to a Western source, he was the seventh general in the Russian army to be killed in Ukraine.