It is the 23rd day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to British intelligence, Russian troops have made minimal progress this week. Since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian-Polish border has been crossed by more than 2 million people. In the morning, rockets crashed into buildings near Liv Airport. No one was injured. You can find the most important information in our minute by minute report from 03/18/2022.
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Ukrainian civil servants said in a statement on Friday that Russia had not yet achieved strategic military goals such as defeating Ukraine’s armed forces, accessing the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and seizing control of Ukraine on the left bank. On its Facebook profile.
At least 130 people have been evacuated from the basement of a theater in Mariupol, which was bombed by Russians on Wednesday, and more than 1,300 are still in the basement. – Civil Rights spokeswoman Ludmila Denisova said on Friday.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He promised that “Ukraine is on the path to Europe” and announced that 300 million euros in financial assistance will be provided to Ukraine.
“We are all at war. We all contribute to our victory,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky.
Russia’s aggression makes it clear that “no country, not even Germany, can be neutral on matters of war and peace, on matters of good and evil.” German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbach made the announcement on Friday during the launch of work on a new national security strategy.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft security forces shot down three Russian missiles that had been maneuvering in the Vinnitsa region, and one, from a ship, was launched into the Odessa region. – Ukrainform quotes officials and the military as saying.
Every war has two consequences – either unconditional defeat or agreement – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said in an interview with Ukraine’s Pravda on Friday.
Ukraine humiliates Russia on the battlefield – Assessed Friday by Professor. Michael Clark on BBC4 Radio. He commented that the Russians make all possible tactical mistakes, while Ukraine operates on the battlefield “on NATO standards”.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Friday that he had discussed with EU diplomatic leader Joseph Borel the preparation of the fifth set of EU sanctions against Russia.
“The pressure will continue to grow until it is necessary to stop Russian barbarism. We talked about security and assistance to Ukrainians fleeing Russian bombs to the EU,” Guleba wrote on Twitter.
Shows several tanks abandoned by the Russians by the Ukrainian army.
In the face of war in Ukraine, the EU has proven to be united, but “not in decision making” – Says Romano Prodi, former head of the European Commission and former prime minister of Italy. According to him, the union is “a force to be reckoned with.”
At the next NATO summit, the proposal for peace work in Ukraine will be formally submitted – Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday. As noted, the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Blassack, spoke about the plan during a meeting with the defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty.
On Wednesday, Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov called on the Israeli parliament Knesset to present the Kremlin’s perspective ahead of a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky on Sunday.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholes spoke by telephone with Vladimir Putin. Scholes called on Putin to call for a ceasefire in Ukraine. He noted that the humanitarian situation needed immediate improvement and that a diplomatic solution was needed. The conversation lasted almost an hour.
At the reception in Hrubieszów (Lubelskie), at least 40 thousand refugees. Another five hundred stayed in the houses of the residents. Among the refugees – as they say – for the second time – in 2014 and now from the Donbass – are people fleeing the war in Ukraine.
One person was killed and 11 others were injured after a morning shelling of Kharkiv – Rescuers said. Authorities in the Donetsk region provided information on two deaths in the attack on Gramadorsk.
Western sanctions on Russia have begun to work against it French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Friday. We are already beginning to see their real impact – he added during a morning conversation on BFM TV.
Mykhailo Podolak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, on Friday criticized German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “endlessly” against Russia. 71 percent, he recalled. The Russians support the invasion of Ukraine.
The “Kiev Independent” reports that Colonel Sergei Zukaryev, commander of the 331st Air Force, was killed during the fighting. He was directly responsible for the 2014 Ilovysk massacre in Donbass.
Losses of Russian troops depicted by the Ukrainian army.
Within two days of the start of humanitarian routes, Mariupol was able to leave about 35,000. People – Interfox-Ukraine, quoting Pavel Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk region.
The Russian Su-34 fighter jet was shot down over Puja in the Kiev region, the head of the regional authorities General Oleksandr Pavlov said on Friday.
US President Joe Biden will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, 14 Polish time (9 a.m. Washington time). – Reports to Reuters Agency about the White House.
Despite sanctions imposed on Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, at least 10 EU countries sold military equipment for 346 million euros in 2015-20-20, according to the Investigated Europe portal.. The arms sales, led by France and Germany, were made possible by a loophole in the barrier.
The number of refugees entering Poland since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has exceeded 2 million. – The Border Guard announced on Twitter on Friday.