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2022-03-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Perspective: Russian invasion of Ukraine, March 15th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 21:52 In the Russian Federation, for the first time since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a suspect in treason has been arrested, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow reports. Yuri Abramov faces up to 20 years in prison.

21:47 During the evacuation from Gostomel, the enemy fired at a column of civilians, the National Police reported. Russian troops fired mortars at a convoy of four buses, as a result, the driver of one of the buses was injured. Also under fire was a car in which the spouses were traveling - the woman died on the spot.

21:45 Out of ten humanitarian corridors, seven have worked today, in total, about four thousand people have been taken out, Vereshchuk said. The column, which was supposed to arrive in Mariupol, did not get into the city - it was detained by the occupiers in Berdyansk.

21:42 Bellingcat investigator Hristo Grozev reports that panic has already begun in Moscow due to the lack of a new plan of action to invade Ukraine. According to him, the Russian elites openly declare that the course of the Russian Federation is "suicidal", it is impossible to continue the war, and repressions have begun in the special services.

21:40 A team of doctors with a mobile hospital arrived from Israel to Ukraine, Yermak said.

21:31 The media write that the girl who came out with a poster during the live broadcast of Channel One is employee Maria Ovsyannikova. She has already been detained by the police, now she is being interrogated at the police department.

21:29 American doctors have deployed a field hospital near Lviv, where they will provide free medical care to all those in need in war conditions, said the head of the Regional State Administration Maxim Kozitsky.

21:09 In Russia, during the evening news broadcast on Channel One, a girl ran out with an anti-war poster:

21:06 The International Court of Justice in The Hague will rule on the case of Ukraine against the Russian Federation on March 16. According to the press service of the court, the decision will be announced at 17:00 Kyiv time.

20:54 Humanitarian cargo with food, water, clothes, as well as buses by which people could leave Mariupol, could not get to the city, said the deputy head of the Presidential Office Kirill Tymoshenko.

20:49 Scholz, after meeting with Erdogan in Ankara, called on Russia for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

20:47 In Odessa, the threat of an enemy amphibious landing remains, but Ukrainian soldiers are ready to meet them, assured the head of the regional administration Maxim Marchenko.

20:21 Reuters and Financial Times write that China is ready to provide military and economic assistance to Russia in the war against Ukraine. The publications cite anonymous sources in the US.

20:20 Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska joined the Ukrainian delegation in the negotiating group with the Russian Federation, Podolyak said.

20:18 The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, together with the investigators of the Main Investigative Directorate of the SBU, reported the suspicion to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Army General Sergei Surovikin, the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, and the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

20:16 Rogozin said that Russia can launch the first module of its orbital station as early as 2026, "if you push yourself hard." He also threatened that the Russian Federation "will make the station a military-applied one if the situation in the world is hostile."

20:08 Shmyhal said that Ukraine demands to immediately exclude Russia from the Council of Europe.

20:02 Russian invaders in Vorzel shot experimental physicist Vasily Kladko, NASU reported.

19:57 The EU has agreed on the fourth package of anti-Russian sanctions - the black list will include individuals and legal entities, the restrictions will affect several sectors of the Russian economy.

19:53 In Russia, they reported the death of another colonel in Ukraine - it turned out to be Sergey Porokhnya, commander of the 12th engineering brigade.

19:49 Russian troops today around 17:00 tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian defenders in the Donetsk direction. As a result, the enemy lost up to 100 personnel, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles and one armored personnel carrier, after which he retreated, OK Skhid reports.

Four infantry fighting vehicles and two infantry platoons were destroyed in the Volnovakha direction.

Also during the day, Ukrainian aviation destroyed a supply convoy - more than 12 vehicles.

19:43 The decision on the possible transfer of the MiG-29 to Ukraine should be made by the entire NATO structure, the Polish Foreign Ministry said.

19:42 Putin and Bennet discussed the situation in Ukraine, "agreed to continue the dialogue," Russian media report.

19:38 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation warned that it would strike at the military enterprises of Ukraine "in response to the shelling of Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile."

19:17 According to the IMF, Ukraine will need about 4.8 billion dollars of external financing this year, and GDP will shrink by 10%, provided that the war ends soon.

19:14 A British journalist received a shrapnel fracture of both legs as a result of the military operations of the Russian invaders and is now in intensive care. According to Venediktova, the journalist was not at any military facility at the time of the injury.

19:10 Russian oligarch Valery Oif is selling his stake in the Dutch football club Vitesse. Also, Oif, who is the main shareholder of FC, will "immediately" withdraw from the supervisory board, according to the club's website.

19:04 The Russian military fired at the Lavina Mall shopping center in Kiev, MP Goncharenko said.

18:45 In Kharkiv, as a result of enemy attacks, about 600 houses have already been destroyed, Mayor Igor Terekhov said.

18:33 As a result of an air strike on a TV tower in the Rivne region, nine people were killed, nine more were injured, the regional administration reported.

18:29 A Russian drone has fallen in Romania. According to local media, the drone was found in the municipality of Dumitra, just over a hundred kilometers south of the border with Ukraine.

18:24 Slovakia expels three employees of the Russian embassy based on information from the security services, reports Reuters.

It is also reported that the Slovak police detained employees of the Ministry of Defense and counterintelligence on suspicion of spying for the Russian Federation.

18:20 Vereshchuk said that the Russians let 160 private cars from Mariupol pass, which reached Berdyansk. "But this is about nothing, because there are 300,000 people there, and 160 cars is a maximum of 600-700 people," she added.

18:17 The Pentagon has warned China of the consequences if it decides to assist Russia in the war against Ukraine.

18:06 The UN Secretary General said that the prospect of a nuclear conflict, previously unthinkable, has now returned to the realm of the possible, and called for maintaining the safety of nuclear facilities.

18:05 Venediktova said that an exchange of prisoners could take place in the near future.

18:03 Facebook changes the rules and prohibits publishing posts with death wishes to heads of state, including Putin and Lukashenko, Reuters reports citing a letter to Meta Platforms employees.

17:52 In Brussels on March 16, an extraordinary session of NATO defense ministers is going to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported.

17:45 The Estonian Parliament appealed to the UN member countries with an appeal to close the skies of Ukraine from the Russian aggressor. As the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said, this is the first decision from the parliament of a country that is a member of the EU and NATO.

17:38 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reports that the invaders are targeting agricultural machinery and undermining food security in Ukraine and the world. Systematic cases of such actions were recorded in Brovarsky district (Kyiv region), Melitopol district (Zaporozhye region), Prylutsky, Nezhinsky, Novgorod-Seversky districts (Chernihiv region), as well as in a number of districts of Kherson and Kharkov regions.

17:33 "DPR" accuses Ukraine of using Tochka-U in Donetsk, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine refutes this information.

17:32 During the work of humanitarian corridors, 150 thousand people were able to use them, Vereshchuk said. At the same time, she added that, in general, the process is very difficult due to non-compliance with the regime of silence by the Russian troops.

17:28 Germany will no longer announce the supply of weapons to Ukraine. German government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said the decision was made "in order to avoid security risks," writes AP.

"Russia's goal is to cut off supply routes to Ukraine and strengthen its own defense, and we do not want to contribute to this," Defense Ministry spokesman Arne Kollatz explained.

16:54 The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine has banned the import of publishing products from the Russian Federation.

16:49 Shares of Chinese companies have collapsed on record amid news of Russia's request for military assistance, writes Bloomberg. Although Beijing officially denied this information, March 14 was the worst day for shares of Chinese companies that are traded on the stock exchange in Hong Kong since November 2008. Investors are afraid of Western sanctions against China, which is moving closer to the Russian Federation.

16:46 The occupiers destroyed the sewage treatment facilities in Zaporozhye - now sewage enters the Dnieper, said the head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration Oleksandr Starukh.

16:43 The EU plans to introduce new sanctions against Rosneft, Transneft and Gazprom Neft, writes Reuters. The ban will apply "to all investment, technology transfer, financial and other services related to the exploration and production of energy." At the same time, countries will continue to buy oil from Russian companies.

16:38 The Rada is planning to adopt a bill on business support during the war period, which has already been approved by the tax committee of the parliament.

16:25 There are 11 representatives of Rosatom at the Zaporozhye NPP. "Obviously, explosions of ammunition at the station site are carried out with their direct participation. So it turns out that Rosatom is also involved in this terrorism," Energoatom's press service said.

16:22 Zelensky will speak via video link before both houses of the US Congress on March 16 at 15:00 Kyiv time.

16:17 From today, Revolut becomes available to Ukrainians who left for the EU due to the Russian invasion. The company has simplified many of the requirements for creating an account, and has also waived a number of fees for currency exchange and account replenishment. Refugees can now link their Revolut account to a Ukrainian bank account.

15:59 A technical pause has been taken in the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations until tomorrow - for additional work in the working subgroups and to clarify certain points, Podolyak said.

15:55 Most of the Luhansk region was left without mobile communications, Governor Gaidai said.

15:52 One of the captured Russian soldiers said at a briefing that there were more than 150 conscripts in his battalion alone.

He also envied those who were able to pay off this war: "You could buy a military ticket for 80,000."

15:46 Media reports that a rally against forced mobilization was planned today in the center of Donetsk. But suddenly there was an explosion, as a result of which 20 civilians were killed, another 28 were injured.

15:45 Arestovich says that the enemy has decided on the main directions of the strike - this is the JFO zone in the Donbass and Nikolaev. Reinforcements are being sent there from other directions. On the other front lines, the situation has stabilized.

15:44 The head of the Kiev city military administration, General Nikolai Zhirnov, believes that in order to capture the capital, the Russians must gather all available human resources and bring them to Kiev.

15:42 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland reported that the number of Ukrainian refugees in the country has reached 1.8 million.

15:41 During martial law, pharmacies will give out insulin free of charge with a prescription from a doctor.

15:39 The Russian military blew up part of the ammunition at the site of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant near the ruins of the training center and power unit No. 1. According to Energoatom, they plan to continue to carry out explosions at the largest nuclear facility in Europe. At the time of the explosions, the staff left their jobs.

15:34 The State Bureau of Investigation announced that it was putting the propagandist Solovyov on the international wanted list.

15:24 In the Zaporozhye region, the invaders robbed the Vasilyevsky historical and architectural museum-reserve Popov's Estate, said the head of the regional department of culture, Vlad Moroko. Together with saws and a screwdriver, they stole a marble toilet from the time of the Popovs.

“The first time this toilet was stolen by the Bolsheviks. Subsequently, one of the descendants of the thieves “returned” the artifact to the museum. And here again, new invaders steal the ill-fated toilet,” he wrote.

15:21 Peskov said that Russia can capture large Ukrainian cities, but does not do this because of concern for the civilian population .

15:12 The authorities of Mariupol say that as of 13:00 there is "actual confirmation of the observance of the silence regime in the direction of the humanitarian corridor for private transport" from the city.

15:09 Germany stated that it cannot accept such a number of Ukrainian refugees from Poland. The German government asked Poland to stop the movement of special trains that Ukrainians fleeing the war travel for free.

15:03 On the morning of March 14, Russian troops attacked one of the pumping stations in Chernihiv. According to Chernihivvodokanal, four people were killed, there are wounded.

14:59 The occupation of Ukrainian nuclear plants will cost Russia hundreds of millions of dollars, says one of the most influential people in the American nuclear industry, former member of the US Atomic Energy Commission Jeffrey Merifield, writes The Wall Street Journal.

"An underestimated motive for Russia's invasion of Ukraine is Kyiv's stance, which was to sever relations with long-standing Russian nuclear suppliers, as the United States encroached on Russia's largest nuclear export market (Ukraine)," the expert notes.

14:49 In Energodar, the invaders are trying to distribute "help" to local residents in the form of peas and flour. According to the press service of Energoatom, the Ukrainian humanitarian aid that came from Zaporozhye was taken away and is not given back to people.

14:28 Russia continues to destroy infrastructure in Ukraine and strike at cities, but "we will restore every street of every city, every house, apartment of every Ukrainian," Zelensky promised.

14:26 Zelensky again called on businesses to start working and instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to reduce taxes as much as possible and create a new tax model for the period of the war and the post-war period.

14:16 In Poland, the police pushed back the activists at the Kozlovichi-Kukuriki checkpoint on the border with Belarus and allowed the movement of trucks with goods bound for Belarus and Russia.

14:09 Zelensky will not be able to speak at today's PACE session "due to unforeseen circumstances", media quote the chairman of the assembly. Instead of the president, Prime Minister Shmygal will speak via video link. The performance was expected at 17:00 Kyiv time.

14:06 More than a thousand people have been recruited in Syrian mercenary recruitment centers in recent days, about 400 of them have already arrived in Russia, the General Staff said. Camps have been set up near the Ukrainian border in the Rostov and Gomel regions for their accommodation and training.

14:04 Russian troops have been stopped in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions, the General Staff said.

In the Polesye direction, the invaders do not abandon their attempts to gain a foothold in Bucha and Irpen. DRGs are preparing to act under the guise of the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the Donetsk and Tavria directions, the enemy continues to conduct active hostilities. Due to the numerical advantage in some places it has a partial success.

13:58 Putin signed a law that allows Russian airlines not to return aircraft leased from foreign companies.

13:53 Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said that the hryvnia exchange rate is stable: "I think we will keep it."

He also urged all businesses in regions where there is no fighting to open up and operate. "It is very important that the country's economy continues to work," the minister stressed.

13:50 Elon Musk challenged Putin to a duel for Ukraine:

13:37 Energoatom said that in the near future the invaders who seized the Zaporizhzhya NPP plan to start "recycling" ammunition right at the plant site near the ruins of the ZNPP training center.

"In other words, the rashists are going to blow up ammunition right in front of power unit No. 1 of the nuclear power plant," the report says.

13:29 The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the country will not become "a way to circumvent the sanctions that the West has imposed on Russia."

13:15 Zarubezhneft's tender for the sale of six consignments of Urals oil with a volume of 600,000 tons with shipment in the second quarter was declared invalid, since none of the buyers responded to the offer.

12:56 In London, activists occupied Deripaska's house and hung a Ukrainian flag on it.

12:44 The State Border Service reported that on the western border of Ukraine there were practically no queues in front of the checkpoints on the morning of March 14, only about 30 cars accumulated at the Shehyni checkpoint.

12:42 The State Emergency Service criticized the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, who, with his messages immediately after the moment of shelling the enemy, can help adjust the fire of the Russian occupiers.

12:35 Putin personally ordered not to let the humanitarian corridor into Mariupol, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said. According to him, the situation in the city is now the most difficult in all of Ukraine.

12:30 The invaders again damaged the line to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was repaired by Ukrenergo specialists the day before. According to the press service of Ukrenergo, emergency teams are forced to go to the danger zone again and repair the damage.

12:28 As a result of the fall of rocket fragments on a house on Kurenevka in Kiev, one person died, six were injured, Klitschko said. The trolleybus, which was without passengers, was completely destroyed.

12:22 Podolyak commented on the course of negotiations with the Russian delegation: "The parties are actively expressing their already clarified positions. Communication is difficult, but it goes on. The reason for the disagreement is that we have very different political systems. Ukraine is a free dialogue in society and a mandatory consensus. Russia is an ultimatum suppression of one's own society."

12:18 Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk is filing a lawsuit with the Israeli Supreme Court against the actions of the country's government and personally Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked on the issue of accepting Ukrainian refugees. According to Channel 12 ITV, such a step is unprecedented.

The lawsuit alleges that the minister violates the agreements reached earlier by Jerusalem and Kiev on a visa-free regime, using "vague language" for this. The ambassador explained that all diplomatic options to protect Ukrainian citizens had been exhausted.

12:11 Russian soldiers who have already managed to take part in the hostilities against Ukraine and returned to their places of deployment are massively refusing to return to the war. Photos of the corresponding reports of servicemen of the 41st Air Force of the Central Military District of the RF Armed Forces, who arrived in Ukraine in full force, were at the disposal of the information publication Guildhall.

12:08 According to updated information from the Kyiv City State Administration, as a result of an explosion in a residential building in the Obolonsky district of the capital on the morning of March 14, one person died, not two.

11:47 Ex-People's Deputy Evgeny Rybchinsky promised a house and 40 acres of land near Kiev for the murder of Kadyrov, if he is really in Ukraine.

11:41 In the sky over Kiev, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a cruise missile , the remnants fell into a house on Kurenevka, Gerashchenko said.

11:30 Pushilin said that as a result of the fall of the Tochka-U rocket in the center of Donetsk, according to preliminary data, 20 people were killed, nine were injured.

11:28 Another blow was dealt to the central part of Kharkiv, the State Emergency Service and the mayor of the city said. The four-storey house was completely destroyed.

11:26 Media reports about the shelling of the center of Donetsk, at least eight dead.

11:23 The staff of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant no longer performs repairs and maintenance of equipment, said IAEA Director General Rafael Grosi. According to him, this is due to physical and psychological fatigue after working continuously for almost three weeks.

11:12 The National Bank announced that 11.8 billion hryvnias have already been collected to support the army and humanitarian aid.

11:10 According to WHO estimates, the number of victims in Ukraine from the military invasion of Russia is 18 million people, including 6.7 million were forced to become internally displaced.

10:59 Australia and the Netherlands have filed a lawsuit against Russia demanding to pay millions of dollars in compensation in the case of the MH17 disaster, which killed 298 people in 2014, said Australian Foreign Minister Maris Payne.

10:41 Yermak said that negotiations are underway with Israel on his humanitarian participation in the situation in Ukraine. Among the first results - Israel allowed Ukrainians whose relatives already live there to come to the country.

10:36 The fourth round of Ukrainian-Russian negotiations begins. "Negotiations. Fourth round. About peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of all troops and security guarantees. Difficult conversation. Although the Russian Federation is aware of all the absurdity of its aggressive actions, it remains under the illusion that the 19-day violence against the peaceful cities of Ukraine - the right choice of strategy," Podolyak wrote.

The talks will be held in video format. Ukraine's position remains unchanged.

10:26 In Berdyansk, Russian invaders "arrested" and took a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in an unknown direction.

10:22 The National Bank of Ukraine canceled the permit for the free export of foreign currency worth more than 10 thousand euros. Such permission was introduced with the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February. Now citizens again must provide supporting documents from banks on the origin of funds. In particular, documents on cash withdrawals from their own accounts.

10:18 Kuleba addressed the West: "To those who abroad are afraid that they will be "dragged into the Third World War." Ukraine is successfully resisting. We need you to help us fight. Provide us with all the necessary weapons. Impose more sanctions against Russia to completely isolate it. Help Ukraine make Putin fail and you will prevent a big war."

10:14 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, 90 children have died, more than 100 have been injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.

09:55 The Ministry of Defense announced the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 14:

personnel - more than 12,000
tanks - 389,
armored combat vehicles - 1,249,
artillery systems - 150,
MLRS - 64,
air defense systems - 34,
aircraft - 77,
helicopters - 90,
automotive equipment - 617,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 8.

09:51 In Chernihiv, Chernihiv Polytechnic University came under attack at night, Governor Chaus said. There were no casualties. Also, the city of Nizhyn was fired upon by Hurricanes, and an enemy aircraft was shot down over Chernigov.

09:50 Kramatorsk was hit by a missile, at least two people were killed, the mayor of the city said.

09:48 In Kherson, the invaders set fire to the house of the Secretary of the City Council Galina Lugova. "I was left without a home. I think I'm on the list for physical destruction," she said.

09:47 On the Polish-Belarusian border, at the Kozlovichi-Kukuriki checkpoint, activists have been blocking trucks with goods heading to Belarus and Russia for the second day, Polish media write.

09:46 In Akhtyrka, as a result of a night airstrike on residential areas, at least three people were killed, Mayor Pavel Kuzmenko said.

09:43 The occupiers have been shelling Avdiivka since yesterday evening - they are shooting from Tochek-U and multiple launch rocket systems, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant was fired upon by Grads. The gas pipeline, school, private houses are damaged. Information about the victims and injured is being specified.

09:39 Vereshchuk reported on humanitarian corridors for March 14. Kyiv region:

Bogdanovka/Novobogdanovka - Brovary;
Peremoga - Brovary;
Bobrik - Brovary;
Gostomel - Belogorodka;
Nemeshaevo/Vorzel - Belogorodka.
Lugansk region:
Severodonetsk - Slavyansk;
Popasnaya - Slavyansk;
Gorskoye - Slavyansk.

In Mariupol today there will be an attempt to unblock the path for a convoy with medicines from Berdyansk (via Mangush) to Mariupol. This was not possible in previous days.

09:22 Voice of America journalist Asya Dolina reported that a pregnant girl on a stretcher from the attacked maternity hospital in Mariupol died along with her unborn child.

09:19 Transport communication between Energodar and Zaporozhye is lost, the invaders bombed the bridge in the Kamensky area. Humanitarian convoys and evacuation of people are not yet possible, Energoatom reports.

09:02 Instagram from today is officially in the register of resources banned in Russia.

08:59 The Czech Republic suspends the issuance of visas to Russians - now the country will issue them only humanitarian visas.

08:54 Ukraine insists on creating a separate account in the EU, to which Russia will receive money for gas and oil. Then this money will be used to restore the economy of Ukraine and reparations, said Lana Zerkal, a member of the Ukrainian delegation to participate in the oral hearings of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

08:51 In the Nikolaev area on March 14 at 06:00 the Russian invaders fired at the city of Snigirevka from aviation - five houses on the street are damaged. Oktyabrskaya, said Governor Vitaly Kim.

08:50 The KSCA reported that the Antonov plant was also fired at in the capital tonight.

08:48 As of 07:40, the bodies of two dead were found in a house in the Obololnsky district of Kiev, which was fired upon, the rescuers said. Three more are hospitalized.

08:46 The General Staff reports that according to the statement of one of the officials of the special operations forces of Belarus, the special forces of the Republic of Belarus will not participate in the war with Ukraine.

08:45 A military camp is located in Russian Belgorod, where servicemen are kept, who, after treatment, have been discharged from hospitals and are waiting to be sent to units. Also in the camp are Russian servicemen who refuse to participate in hostilities - they are being interrogated, the General Staff reports.

08:43 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine began using the face recognition system of the American company Clearview AI, which has access to a database of 10 billion photos, Reuters writes. Two billion photos - from the social network VKontakte. The system will help identify the Russian attackers, combat disinformation and identify the dead.

08:39 Zaluzhny congratulated the Ukrainians on the Day of the Ukrainian Volunteer.

08:37 In Rivne, a TV tower was damaged as a result of an airstrike. Television and radio broadcasting does not work in the region, Governor Vitaliy Koval said.

08:23 In the Obolonsky district of Kiev, a shell hit a nine-story house at night, a fire started. Rescuers evacuated 63 people from the building, the fire was extinguished.

08:01 At night, the town of Stavishche in the Zhytomyr region was subjected to a missile strike. According to preliminary data, seven administrative buildings were destroyed, four people were injured, and searches are underway for other victims, the State Emergency Service reports.

07:27 The Russian Orthodox Church in Amsterdam announced a break with the Moscow Patriarchate. The clergy expressed their desire to join the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul, which is considered a rival of the Moscow Patriarchate.

05:54 The Czech Republic will provide military assistance to Ukraine for 31.5 million dollars.

05:39 The British Ministry of Defense reports that Russia has isolated Ukraine from maritime trade.

05:10 Australia has imposed sanctions against 33 Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich, Alexei Miller, Dmitry Lebedev, Sergei Chemezov, Nikolai Tokarev, Igor Shuvalov and Kirill Dmitriev.

03:32 The Bahamas joined the sanctions and left Russia without offshore companies, the Central Bank of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas said.

01:30 Arakhamia announced the fourth round of Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on March 14 at 10:30.

00:36 On March 13, missile strikes were carried out on targets in Uman, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Starichi using strategic aircraft. In addition, launches of the Iskander OTRK from the territory of Belarus continue, the General Staff reports.

00:30 In Russia, cases of mass refusal of military personnel from business trips to Ukraine are recorded, despite promises of the status of a war veteran, additional daily payments and an increased official salary, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

00:16 Of the 14 humanitarian corridors scheduled for March 13, nine have been activated. More than 5,500 people managed to get out of the shelling, Vereshchuk said.

00:02 Western media writes that Russia has requested military and economic assistance from China in the war with Ukraine. China denied this information.

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