00:17 Antiaircraft sirens sounded in Kyiv
20:55 Ukrainian media reports of bombing raids on Kharkiv with dead and wounded. According to Ukrainska Prava, citing eyewitnesses, the attack hit some residential buildings and also caused fires. According to the Emergency Medical Center, a child is among the victims.
20:20 Thousands of residents of Mariupol were taken to remote towns in Russia, “deported like the Nazis in World War II.” The complaint comes from the mayor of the wartorn city Vadym Boichenko, who published a statement on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. “Over the past week, several thousand residents of Mariupol have been taken to Russia. The occupiers illegally took people from the Livoberezhny district and from an airraid shelter in the building of a sports club, where more than a thousand people, mostly women and children, were hiding from the bombing,” he said.
19:45 According to former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, US President Joe Biden was due to visit Ukraine on March 24 when he comes to Europe for the NATO summit in Brussels and to attend a European Council meeting.
19:37 “UNICEF today warned that children fleeing the war in Ukraine are at greater risk of trafficking and exploitation. With more than 1.5 million children fleeing as refugees since February 24 and countless others displaced by violence within the country, the threat to children is real and growing.” According to a statement from Unicef
17:41 Ukraine has evacuated 190,000 civilians from the conflict zones through the humanitarian corridors since the beginning of the Russian invasion. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk in an interview, as reported by international media.
16:43 “We do not attach importance to propaganda. Instead, we encourage any political and diplomatic step that will end the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Italy stands by Ukraine’s side and will continue to do so,” said Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini.
14:54 “Farnesina” firmly rejects the threatening statements of the director of the European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Paramonov, according to which new sanctions “against Russia” would have irreversible consequences for Italy, and urges the “Russian Foreign Ministry” to act for them immediate cessation of the illegal and brutal aggression “against Ukraine”, which Farnesina condemns in the strongest terms”. Italy with its European and international partners emphasizes a note will continue to exert all pressure for Russia to return within the framework of international legality.
13:55 In the Kyiv region, a mortar shell fired at the village of Makariv killed seven people and injured five others. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv region police, quoted by UNIAN.
12:54 Russia and China will increase their cooperation under the current circumstances, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is convinced. “Of course, I believe that the interaction will increase, considering that the West is trampling on all the pillars of the international system and we, the two great powers, obviously have to think about how to proceed,” Lavrov said, as quoted by Interfax .
12:39 p.m According to the UN human rights office, the Guardian reported that a total of 816 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 1,333 injured since the Russian invasion began on February 24. However, because the UN only reports the numbers it can verify, it admits that the numbers grossly underestimate the actual budget.
12:39 According to the UN Human Rights Office, the Guardian reported that a total of 816 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 1,333 injured since the Russian invasion began on February 24. However, because the UN only reports the numbers it can verify, it admits that the numbers grossly underestimate the actual budget.
11:31 “Sanctions are not our choice. We do not want the logic of the French Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, who declared “total financial and economic war” on Russia, to find adherents in Italy and provoke a series of corresponding irreversible consequences.” . This is what Alexei Paramonov, director of the European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told the Ria Novosti agency. “We expect that in Rome, as in other European capitals, they will come to their senses anyway, remembering the deep interests of their peoples, the consistently peaceful and respectful of their foreign policy aspirations.”
10:44 New antiaircraft alarm in Lviv. The sirens began wailing a few minutes at 11:30 a.m. (local time) amidst the bustle of the city, while the streets of the historic center were quite crowded with residents. Over loudspeakers installed across the city, Ukrainian military authorities invited citizens to go to emergency shelters. Yesterday, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi urged the population to respect the rules when the sirens go off and not to stay in their homes.
10:40 a.m Russia is able to conduct its operation in Ukraine on its own, nobody is asking us to intervene. This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, quoted by TASS.
10:15 “In the current situation, your heartfelt appeals against the war take the form of an appeal addressed above all to those who are in charge of the fate of so many human lives, so that the grounds for dialogue can be found again and a very serious one Situation ended and unacceptable that endangers global security and stability”. Sergio Mattarella emphasized in a message to Pope Francis on the occasion of the “IX.
08:21 Russia claims to have used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. This was announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense quoted by TASS.
08:04 Another Russian general fell in battle in Ukraine: this is General Andrei Mordvichev, who died in the city of Chernobayevka after artillery strikes, the Ukrainian army says in a Facebook post quoted by the BBC.
07:46 The governor of the Lugansk region of Ukraine announced that today at 09:00 local time (08:00 in Italy) a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians will be opened. CNN writes it.
06:06 Russia continues to block delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged cities “in most areas”. This is the accusation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said that seven humanitarian corridors were opened yesterday: six in Sumy region, one in Donetsk region. More than 9,000 people were evacuated from the besieged city of Mariupol and hundreds of tons of essential supplies were delivered. “But he added the occupiers continue to block the supply of humanitarian aid to the besieged cities in most areas. This is a totally deliberate tactic. They have a clear mandate to do absolutely everything to further the humanitarian catastrophe in our cities.” an “argument” to allow the Ukrainians to cooperate with the occupying forces. This is a war crime.”
05:10 Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, world food and energy prices have skyrocketed. A US think tank the Center for Global Development warns that the magnitude of these spikes could plunge more than 40 million people around the world into “extreme poverty”.
03:35 The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claims that the Russians managed to isolate them from the Sea of Azov. “The occupiers partially succeeded in the Donetsk theater of operations in temporarily denying Ukraine access to the Sea of Azov,” the BBC reports online in a statement. However, the General Staff says Moscow is still being hampered in all of its main war aims.
02:10 In a video message posted to Facebook, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for meaningful peace and security talks with Moscow “immediately.” “This is Russia’s only chance to reduce the damage caused by its mistakes,” Zelenskyy said after his invasion. “It’s time to meet, it’s time to talk, it’s time to restore territorial integrity and justice to Ukraine. Otherwise, Russia’s losses will be so great that it will take the country several generations to recover,” he added.
01:49 The text of a possible treaty between Russia and Ukraine must be approved before even mentioning the possibility of a meeting between the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky. This was stated by Russia’s chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, quoted by TASS.
01:39 Two former US Presidents, Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican George W. Bush, have expressed their support for Ukraine by visiting a Ukrainian church in Chicago. Wearing blue and yellow ribbons, the colors of the Ukrainian flag, the two former presidents laid bouquets of sunflowers, the country’s symbolic flowers, in front of the Catholic Church of Saints Volodymyr and Olhae and then gathered for prayer.
01:09 One of the 3 power lines of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, near the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, which was damaged after the attack by Russian forces, is operational again. According to BBC online, citing Interfax, Ukrainian technicians managed to repair one of the power lines blocked during heavy bombardment by Russian forces. The nuclear power plant is under the full control of the Moscow Armed Forces.
00:57 The US Marines have confirmed that a plane carrying four soldiers on board crashed in northern Norway while participating in a NATO exercise called Cold Response. An investigation has been launched, American media reported, stressing that the fate of the four on board was not disclosed. This was announced by the Norwegian Relief Coordination Center (Jrcc).