Antiaircraft warning sirens went off at dawn this morning in almost all regions of Ukraine. The Kyiv Independent reports that the raid risk In addition to Kyiv, it was also activated in Sumy, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Lviv, IvanoFrankivsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Rivne, Volyn, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia and Odessa. The municipal council of Mariupol today denounced the bombing by Russian forces of a school where 400 people took refuge yesterday. On Telegram, the council reported that the building was destroyed and people are trapped in the rubble. The authorities reported that there were women, children and the elderly in the school. The BBC reports.
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At least 266 civilians have been killed in clashes in the region Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, since the start of the Russian invasion. This was announced by the head of the investigative department of the General Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in Kharkiv, Sergei Bolvinov, who spoke of 14 children among the victims. Besieged by Russian troops, Kharkiv had a population of 1.5 million before the war. The city continues to come under artillery fire and several residential buildings were hit and burned last night, UNIAN news agency reported. At least five people died in a bomb attack on a multistory apartment building near an industrial area. Local authorities posted the news on Facebook, stating that a 9yearold child was among the victims. They also posted pictures of the building catching fire during the attack.
The Ukrainian authorities then announced that they had managed to bring 71 children from the orphanage to safety Sumy who had found shelter in a bunker in the last few weeks. “At the first opportunity to evacuate through the humanitarian corridor, we took the children from the specialized orphanage located in the combat zone,” said the region’s governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, who posted the children’s pictures on Facebook. “These are children who have no parents, and some of them need constant medical attention.” The BBC reports.
The governor of the region Lugansk, says Serhiy Haidai that in the last 24 hours 24 houses and palaces have been destroyed in Rubishne and Severodonetsk. Seven people were evacuated and three killed, including two children, the Kyiv Independent points out.
“The region of IvanoFrankivsk continues to take in children without parental care coming from the Ukrainian regions where hostilities are currently ongoing. Yesterday 30 children arrived from the Cernihiv orphanage. They had to travel a long way, travel 750 km. We have fed them and put them in a temporary shelter, they will have clothes, necessary medical aid and food.
NOW 7 HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS
Seven humanitarian corridors are planned for today, March 20th. This was reported by Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk. In addition, it is planned to deliver humanitarian goods, food and medicines to the Kharkiv region from Kharkov to Rogan and Novaya Rogan.
“115 CHILDREN KILLED SINCE THE CONFLICT BEGAN”
Ukraine’s juvenile prosecutor has reported the deaths of at least 115 children and the wounding of another 140 in attacks carried out by Russia since it began invading the country on February 24.
Most child victims were registered in the capital region of Kyiv, followed by Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Mikolajiv, Yitomir, Sumy and Chersón, according to the report published on the organism’s Telegram channel. At the same time, prosecutors said that since the invasion began, 489 educational institutions have suffered property damage, 50 more than yesterday. Of the structures affected, 69 were completely destroyed.
ZELENSKY: “WAR CRIMES WILL BE REMEMBERED IN MARIUPOL FOR CENTURIES”
A new social post from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives overnight, declaring that the ongoing Russian attack on Mariupol should be viewed as an “act of terrorism” that will be “remembered for centuries.” In a video message posted to Facebook on Sunday, Ukraine’s president said Mariupol will go down in history as an example of war crimes, the Kyiv Independent reports.