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2024-03-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: March 18, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:35 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that he does not see a foundation for resolving the conflict in Ukraine this year: “There is no foundation in 2024 to expect the development of this issue. We do not see this in the near future.”
22:28 Most EU foreign ministers supported the use of income from Russian assets for Ukraine, but there is no unanimous final decision yet, Borrell said.
21:39 Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that on Sunday, March 17, the region was attacked about 60 times, as a result of which four people were killed and 23 were injured. According to him, at least 30 shells were fired at six municipalities in the region, nine explosive devices were dropped from a drone, and 20 drone attacks were also carried out.
20:43 The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to parliament a bill to increase the number of border guards by 15 thousand military personnel. Reserves need to be increased so that border guards in the post-war period can take control of the border on their own and adequately respond to threats, the government explains.
20:28 There are no risks of breaking through the border in the Sumy region, assured the head of the OBA Vladimir Artyukh. According to him, now the biggest danger in the region is constant air and missile attacks, including on infrastructure, the intensity of which has increased significantly recently. Artyukh said that up to five border settlements are suffering from shelling, in each of which there are from three to ten people left - they are now being evacuated. Local residents completely abandoned 22 settlements in the region.
19:59 Zelensky said in an evening video message that logistics in the army had become “noticeably more efficient.” The president also assured that this year Ukraine will reach its maximum defense production since independence. “And every year we will invariably add to this potential of ours - an obvious strategic prospect for Ukraine,” the head of state emphasized.
19:03 Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham said during a visit to Kiev that he will ask the Biden administration to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. He also emphasized that Putin’s supposed 87% support in the presidential elections is “so impressive that there is no trust in it.” Graham believes that after such “elections” Putin is illegitimate.
18:58 Ukraine has again been rocked by scandals involving employees of territorial recruitment centers. The first occurred in Transcarpathia. There, as the man’s relatives claim, TCC employees allegedly kidnapped him from the hotel and drove him to attempt suicide. The second incident occurred in Lviv. So the military commissars forced the volunteer into the car without serving a summons. Read more about these stories in the article New scandals with the TCC.
18:49 Poland and Germany will officially launch an armored coalition to help Ukraine on March 26, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh said.
18:42 Putin said at a concert marking the tenth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea that he had received a report on the restoration of the railway from Rostov-on-Don to Donetsk and Mariupol, and promised to “continue this work.” According to him, “soon trains will go directly to Sevastopol, and this will be another alternative road instead of the Crimean Bridge.”
18:16 Zelensky said that he met in Kiev with member of the US Senate Lindsey Graham - they discussed assistance to Ukraine, the situation on the front line and the needs of the army. “The continued provision of military-technical assistance by partners, including air defense systems and missiles for them, is critically important,” the president emphasized. They also discussed the Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, sanctions against the Russian Federation and the use of frozen Russian assets.
17:47 Syrsky appointed Major Ilya Yevlash as head of the public relations service of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:55 The EU Council of Foreign Ministers has made a final decision to allocate an additional 5 billion euros for military support to Ukraine within the framework of the European Peace Fund, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.
16:38 The Russians attacked the civilian infrastructure of Konotop and settlements in the Sumy region. Preliminarily, there were no fatalities; public utility facilities were damaged in Konotop. The head of the OVA, Vladimir Artyukh, said that compared to last week, the number of shellings has increased significantly - the number of uses of tactical aviation and multiple launch rocket systems has increased. Velikaya Pisarevka suffers the most from shelling.
16:04 Since the beginning of 2024, the Russian army has been using seven times more ammunition at the front than the Ukrainian Defense Forces, said Deputy Defense Minister Ivan Gavrilyuk. In addition, according to him, the enemy has a significant advantage in aviation: in just 77 days of 2024, the Russians dropped more than 3,500 aircraft on Ukrainian positions and front-line territories, which is 16 times more than in 2023.
15:29 The international coalition for the return of Ukrainian children, jointly led by Ukraine and Canada, has already united 33 countries, the Presidential Office reported.
15:07 The Cabinet of Ministers approved a bill on the creation of groups in Ukraine to search for missing persons during the war. Groups will be created in agreement with the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It is envisaged that the Koorshtab will be given the right to negotiate with humanitarian missions, public associations and individuals operating in temporarily occupied territories in order to search for persons who have gone missing under special circumstances.
14:25 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief - received detailed information from the front, heard Syrsky’s report on the main directions of active operations, reports on expenditures and receipts of ammunition, and intelligence data. In addition, there were reports on the protection of critical infrastructure and the construction of defense lines.
14:11 Since last year, North Korea has sent about 7,000 containers with ammunition and other military equipment to Russia, said South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik. Pyongyang likely received more than 9,000 containers of aid in exchange for military support, he said.
13:39 The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated an additional 5 billion hryvnia for the Security and Defense Forces, Shmyhal said. The funds will be used to purchase drones.
13:04 NATO soldiers are already in Ukraine for arms control, intelligence operations and training, writes the Spanish newspaper El País. At the same time, the publication interviewed many military sources from Ukraine and the EU over more than two years of war, and they all claim that not a single NATO army participated in ground combat.
12:49 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the elected President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, and invited his country to take part in the inaugural Peace Summit, as well as to join the implementation of the Peace Formula clauses on food and nuclear security and the exchange of prisoners.
12:36 Peskov said that the United States is “de facto deeply involved in the conflict” in Ukraine and is “essentially at war with Russia.” He also explained that Putin, speaking about creating a “sanitary zone” on the border with Ukraine, meant “taking measures to ensure the security of Russian territory, which is under attack.”
12:14 US Senator Lindsey Graham arrived in Kiev, the American Embassy in Ukraine reported.
11:59 The Legion of Freedom of Russia, the RDK and the Siberian Battalion claim that during the period of fighting from March 12 to 18 in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, the Russian Federation lost 613 military personnel killed and 829 wounded. Another 27 Russians were captured. More than 130 pieces of equipment were also allegedly destroyed.
11:37 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis does not believe that the EU will agree to send military personnel to Ukraine. According to him, EU countries are unable to reach agreement even on less important topics.
10:50 The Wall Street Journal writes that the Czech Republic has already ordered 800 thousand artillery shells for Ukraine from various suppliers around the world and has identified countries that can provide another 700 thousand if additional funding is available. At present, the first tranche of 300 thousand shells has already been provided, with Germany making the largest contribution.
Prague does not name the countries where it purchases shells, but the publication claims that they come, among other things, from Russia’s allies. Trade agreements assume that supplies will be carried out through the Czech Republic or third countries, in order to hide any direct connection between the countries of origin and Ukraine.
10:35 China is considering the possibility of participating in the first inaugural Peace Summit, which is to be held in Switzerland in the spring, said Chinese Ambassador to Switzerland Wang Shikhtin. "China stands for promoting peace negotiations... And we have also presented a strategy for the political end of the conflict: the territorial sovereignty of all countries must be respected and the UN Charter must be respected. All parties must work to end the war. We must prevent the crisis from worsening or even escalating control," the ambassador emphasized. At the same time, he added that sanctions against the Russian Federation “cannot end the conflict, but only create new problems.”
10:29 In the morning, the Russians fired at the village. Novoosinovo, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, one person was wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. He also clarified that the attack on the fire station, as a result of which a rescuer was injured, was carried out in the village. White Well, Chuguevsky district.
09:54 In Romania, they began to build the largest NATO base in Europe, designed for 10 thousand military personnel, writes Euronews. Experts note that this is due to the war in Ukraine, which may last for many more years. The facility is being built on an area of almost 3,000 hectares in the Constanta district, on the basis of a pre-existing NATO air base. The project cost is 2.5 billion euros.
09:08 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 18:
- personnel - about 431,550 (+810) people,
- tanks - 6809 (+19),
- armored combat vehicles - 13,014 (+17),
- artillery systems - 10,668 (+34),
- MLRS - 1017 (+0),
- air defense systems - 720 (+0),
- aircraft - 347 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 8308 (+36),
- cruise missiles - 1922 (+0),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 14,141 (+68),
- special equipment - 1731 (+8).
08:57 Over the past 24 hours, 72 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, the enemy tried 36 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka and Pobeda in the Donetsk region. Another 13 attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Orlovka, Alexandropol and Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled two enemy attacks in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - three attacks in the Razdolovka area of the Donetsk region; in Bakhmutsky - eight attacks in the Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - seven attacks in the Rabotino district and north-west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - three attacks.
08:36 Ukraine will not extend the agreement with Russia on gas transit after December 31, 2024, said Energy Minister German Galushchenko. According to him, last year Ukraine conducted a stress test of the gas transportation system and underground gas storage facilities, which proved the system’s ability to operate without transit.
08:09 In the Alexandria district of the Kirovograd region, as a result of a night attack, private industrial facilities and residential buildings around were damaged, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA Andrei Raikovich.
07:48 Air defense at night destroyed 17 of the 22 Shahed attack UAVs that Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the Air Force reported. Drones were destroyed within the Kyiv, Poltava, Khmelnitsky, Cherkassy, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Vinnitsa, Zaporozhye, Rivne regions. In addition, at night the enemy attacked with five S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles in the Kharkov region and two X-59 guided aircraft missiles in the Sumy region.
07:41 On the afternoon of March 17, the Russians fired two ballistic missiles, presumably Iskander-M, at an infrastructure facility in Nikolaev. As a result of the attack, one person was killed and nine were injured, including two children, said the head of the OBA, Vitaly Kim. Private and apartment buildings were damaged, areas of external lighting, part of the tram tracks and the contact network were destroyed.
06:37 At night, the enemy launched missile attacks on a border settlement in the Kharkov region, the State Emergency Service reported. As a result of the impact, the fire department building and four fire-rescue vehicles were damaged, and one rescuer was injured.
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