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2023-03-20 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: March 19th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:37 Putin, in his article for a Chinese newspaper, said that Russia is allegedly "open to a political and diplomatic settlement of the Ukrainian crisis." According to him, "the future of the peace process in Ukraine depends solely on the readiness for a serious conversation, taking into account the current geopolitical realities." At the same time, Putin welcomes China's readiness to "play a constructive role in resolving the crisis."
22:31 Putin wrote an article for the Chinese newspaper Renmin Ribao entitled "Russia and China - a partnership looking to the future." In it, he connects "great expectations" with the upcoming negotiations with China: "There is no doubt that they will give a new powerful impetus to relations." Putin is confident that the "friendship and partnership" between Moscow and Beijing "will grow and strengthen," and Xi Jinping's visit should contribute to this.
21:23 Since the beginning of the full-scale war, pyrotechnics and explosives have already examined more than 100 thousand hectares of territory. More than 400,000 enemy shells were neutralized, more than 200,000 explosive items were seized, Zelensky said.
21:16 Charitable platform United24 recently crossed the border of $300 million in donations from people from around the world, Zelensky said in an evening video message. Donors were ordinary people and companies from more than a hundred countries.
20:49 In Mariupol, after Putin's secret visit along Metallurgov Ave. towards Ilyich, a convoy of four tilt trucks with the flags of Armenia and Dagestan and the inscription "Humanitarian mission" was recorded, accompanied by a convoy of cars with flashing beacons and flags of the "People's Front" - political organization "DPR", said the adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko.
19:25 The authorities of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation announced that 17 additional checkpoints will be built in the border areas.
19:23 Since the beginning of March, 20 Ukrainian military have been trained in Italy to work with SAMP / T systems, writes Il Fatto Quotidiano. The exercises are taking place at the Santa Barbara barracks in Sabaudia in the central part of the country, where the headquarters of the anti-aircraft artillery command of the Ground Forces is located.
18:56 Moldova plans to soon join the EU sanctions against some citizens of the Russian Federation, Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu said. He clarified that it is mainly about a ban on entry into Moldova, blocking bank accounts or assets of those persons who are somehow involved in the aggression against Ukraine. According to the minister, about 25 Russians will fall under these restrictions.
18:50 At least two companies from India and the UAE are helping Russia to circumvent sanctions by providing it with oil tankers - these are Gatik and Fractal, writes Bloomberg. Data collected by the agency suggests that almost all Fractal and Gatik tankers called at Russian ports this year or transshipped Russian products from ship to ship.
18:44 The government of the Republic of South Africa, which Putin is going to visit in August 2023, "took note" of the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue a warrant for the arrest of the head of the Kremlin and "is aware of its legal obligations," said the speaker of the President of South Africa Vincent Magvenya.
18:15 In the occupied Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, a car with local collaborator Sergei Moskalenko was blown up. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, an unknown person planted explosives under the left wing of the car. As a result of the explosion, "a police officer died on the spot, his wife and daughter were injured," the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation noted.
17:46 The encirclement of Avdiivka is a strategic task of the enemy, said Aleksey Dmitrashkovsky, spokesman for the forces of the Tauride direction: "The enemy was able to attack the positions of our troops four times during the night. Yesterday, the Russians had 37 assault operations. All military operations took place along the Avdiivka-Marinka line. Strategic "The task now for the Russians is to encircle Avdiivka in order to storm Ugledar. So far, all attempts have been futile. The enemy lost almost three companies of personnel killed and wounded yesterday, 46 pieces of equipment, including 15 tanks and nine infantry fighting vehicles."
17:28 Gosspetssvyaz warns that Russian hackers, including special services, are distributing hacked software with malicious code added using torrent trackers. If the victim downloads and installs such files on their computer, the hackers gain access to the content and may go unnoticed for a long time. The use of a hacked operating system is especially dangerous, because in this case, attackers have full administrative access to the computer on which it is installed.
16:39 The Russians attacked from Gradov on the Kamensky Vasilevsky district of the Zaporozhye region - three people were killed, two more were injured, the OVA reported.
15:55 The military administration evacuated all the children from Chasy Yar, Donetsk region, said the head of the GVA Serhiy Chaus.
15:21 The Zaporozhye court sentenced the Gauleiter of Berdyansk Alexander Saulenko to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. According to the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, before the war he was a little-known businessman, but he was a member of the pro-Russian party Union of Left Forces and traveled to Russia. After the occupation, according to Fedorov, "the Gauleiter was marked by the failure of the pseudo-referendum and the export of Ukrainian grain through the port of Berdyansk to Russia."
14:37 Putin, when asked why he did not start a full-scale war in Ukraine back in 2014, replied that "we hoped that this problem could be resolved peacefully. But, as it turns out now, we see it - we just led by the nose, none of our so-called partners was going to solve anything by peaceful means."
The second reason Putin called Russia's unpreparedness for war at that time - neither from the point of view of the economy, nor from the military point of view: "We did not have hypersonic weapons then, but now we have. There are other modern systems, but in 2014 there was nothing like that was".
13:59 The Russians tactically failed the operation to capture Bakhmut , said Sergey Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, today's actions of the Russians in the Bakhmut region can hardly be called a big strategic offensive operation: “Now they, in fact, tactically cannot complete the operation to capture the Ukrainian regional center Bakhmut. several dozen attacks, but they suffer huge losses."
Cherevaty stressed that the Ukrainian command and headquarters are planning the defense correctly. So, the Defense Forces bleed the enemy, wear down his combat capabilities and break the morale.
13:40 In Europe, there is a shortage of explosives to increase the production of ammunition for Ukraine, writes the Financial Times. Limited stocks of gunpowder, plastic explosives and TNT have prevented the European military industry from quickly fulfilling EU orders for Ukraine, no matter how much European governments are willing to spend, according to officials and arms companies.
13:27 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, showed what Mira Avenue looks like from above, where Putin supposedly passed at night. "Do you understand now why at night?" Andryushchenko wrote.
12:18 Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin instructed the central office of the department "to give the necessary legal assessment of the statements of the Minister of Justice of Germany on the implementation of the illegal requirement of the International Criminal Court to arrest citizens of the Russian Federation in Germany."
10:36 British intelligence believes that the proclamation of the occupied Melitopol "the center of the Zaporozhye region" is a recognition that Russia is unlikely to be able to seize significant territories in the near future.
09:45 German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said he would execute a warrant for Putin's arrest if he came to the country. According to him, if Putin arrives, the International Criminal Court will quickly turn to Interpol and demand the execution of the warrant, "then Germany will be obliged to arrest President Putin."
Unlike national law enforcement agencies, the ICC can also take action against heads of state, Buschmann added.
09:31 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, said that during the night visit of Putin (or one of his understudies), the sky was blocked by aviation, and mobile communications were turned off in most of the city. He was brought by helicopter from the Crimea, then he drove along Mira Avenue and along the sea. The head of the Kremlin was shown the Philharmonic Hall, from where the cages that were being prepared for the "tribunal" over the Azov people had been removed before, and they led him through the "Potemkin village" in the quarter under construction by the RF Ministry of Defense. Andryushchenko stressed that the visit took place at night, because during the day it is simply impossible to hide the ruins into which the invaders have turned the city.
09:23 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were killed (two in Kramatorsk and one in Konstantinovka), 18 more were injured. In particular, ten people were wounded in Kramatorsk after shelling with cluster munitions.
In the Kherson region, two people were injured, in the Kharkiv region - one, according to the IVA.
08:41 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 19.
- personnel - about 164,910 (+710) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3532 (+21),
- armored combat vehicles - 6853 (+23),
- artillery systems - 2568 (+8),
- MLRS - 507 (+1),
- air defense systems - 268 (+3),
- aircraft - 305 (+0),
- helicopters - 290 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2159 (+0),
- cruise missiles - 907 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5408 (+4),
- special equipment - 262 (+3).
08:19 The Russian army continues offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. Over the past day, the Defense Forces repelled 83 attacks on this sector of the front. Bakhmut remains the epicenter of hostilities, the General Staff said in a morning report .
Considering the situation that has developed near Vuhledar, the Russian military leadership is in a hurry to send reinforcements. So, since March 13, in the 37th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 36th army of the Eastern Military District, combat coordination of the Storm unit has been carried out - it is being prepared for shipment to Ukraine on March 24. The brigade has a significant shortage of personnel, so the unit commanders withdraw their subordinates from treatment and rehabilitation. Soldiers complain about the low level of security. There is a very low level of personnel motivation and a large number of attempts to avoid being sent to the combat area.
05:54 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Prigozhin is trying to justify the failure of PMC Wagner to achieve his goals in Bakhmut. So, in an interview with the Russian media, he called on the military leadership of the Russian Federation to maintain forces on the eve of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Prigozhin claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for a counteroffensive in five separate directions: in the area of Kremennaya, Bakhmut, towards Donetsk, in the Zaporozhye region, and allegedly in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation. Prigozhin said that Ukrainian forces would begin these operations from mid-April and urged Russian troops to prepare by saving ammunition and equipment.
05:28 The Kremlin said that Putin allegedly made a working trip to Mariupol. According to the press service, Putin allegedly flew to Mariupol by helicopter, then driving a car "driving around several districts of the city, making stops." On the trip, he was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin, who told the head of the Kremlin about the "beautification" of the city. In the Nevsky microdistrict, Putin allegedly spoke with the "townspeople", he also examined the coastline of Mariupol.
The Kremlin also said that Putin held a meeting at the SVO command post in Rostov, heard reports from the head of the General Staff and a number of military leaders.
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