WAR IN RUSSIA LIVE. One month to the day after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s army seems to be losing ground, especially around kyiv.
07:59 – What is the outcome of the war in Ukraine?
#Balance sheet According to the latest report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published on Wednesday March 23, 2022, 977 civilians have been killed since the start of the war in Ukraine, including 81 children. In addition, 1,594 people were injured, including 88 children. But “the OHCHR estimates that the actual figures are considerably higher, as the receipt of information from some places where intense hostilities took place has been delayed and many reports are still awaiting corroboration.” “Most of the recorded civilian casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including heavy artillery and multiple rocket launcher bombardments, as well as missile and air strikes,” adds OHCHR.
07:50 – Russian pressure in the Donbass
If Russia seems to be losing ground in part of Ukraine, it is, on the other hand, leading a new offensive in the east of the country, in the Donbass. The US Department of Defense (Pentagon) has indeed noted an intensification of the activity of the Russian army in this sector, Vladimir Putin’s men “having made much more effort” in the Luhansk region.
07:41 – Ukraine would regain ground around Chernihiv
During the same briefing, a Pentagon official indicated that the Ukrainian army had managed to gain ground around Chernihiv, north of the capital, near the border with Belarus. Part of the Russian troops would have been repulsed.
07:39 – Russia repelled from the outskirts of kyiv
According to the Pentagon, quoted by the American channel ABC News, the Russian army would have lost ground in its offensive towards kyiv. The Ukrainian fighters “were able to repel the Russians about 55 km east northeast of kyiv,” said an American defense official, while Vladimir Putin’s men were about 20 or 30 km from the capital. Some of Vladimir Putin’s troops, however, are still present about ten kilometers from kyiv, to the north.
07:35 – A month of war in Ukraine
This Thursday, March 24, 2022 marks the first month of the war in Ukraine. 28 days ago, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, announced in the middle of the night the start of a “special military operation” in the neighboring country. A declaration of war whose name the head of state did not say for pretexts of “denazification” and “demilitarization” of the country, the boss of the Kremlin wishing above all to take control of the country as he had done with Crimea in 2014.
07:08 – Dead, wounded.. What is the latest human toll of the war in Ukraine?
Balance sheet. 29 days after the start of the war in Ukraine, several figures are put forward concerning the human consequences of the conflict. On Wednesday March 23, 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky, the president, as well as his army, gave several figures:
- 121 children have been killed since the start of the war, Volodymyr Zelensky told the Japanese Parliament.
- For its part, the army indicates that approximately 15,600 Russian soldiers were killed.
- In total, according to the UN, more than 900 civilians have been killed, as indicated in the latest report dated 19 March.
- On the armed side, Ukraine gave no indication of the losses recorded and Russia only communicated figures on March 2, announcing that it had lost 498 soldiers.
06:40 – Ukraine on NATO summit agenda
Ukraine largely monopolizes discussions among international leaders and is expected to be the main agenda for upcoming NATO, G7 and European Union summits. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is meeting this Thursday, March 24 to discuss, among other things, the strategy and the sanctions to be adopted against Russia. The organization has already announced that it will strengthen the military forces deployed near Ukraine, in the Baltic Sea and in the Black Sea to enable Ukraine to deal with Russian attacks and nuclear and chemical threats.
06:11 – Real nuclear, chemical and computer threats?
For 29 days the risk of a nuclear attack launched by Russia has been feared by all Western countries, the fault of the various allusions to the atomic bomb made by the Kremlin. The spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov again mentioned the use of nuclear weapons on March 22 in an interview with CNN International, but he was content to recall the “internal security doctrine” which provides that if the Kremlin identifies “an existential threat to our country, so [les armes nucléaires] can be used in accordance with our doctrine”. The man is careful not to say what might or might not be understood as an existential threat.
As for the threats of the use of chemical weapons and cyberattacks, more than real risks, these are the fears expressed by the United States. Russia denies possessing biological weapons and refutes accusations by senior US officials, but it did not respond to allegations of cyberattacks, saying only that they were “Russophobic” statements by Americans.
05:43 – Russia is waging a siege war
It’s the 29th day of the war in Ukraine and the full-scale invasion is slowly turning into siege warfare. Both the Ukrainians and the Russians are held in place, gaining very little ground on the enemy, and the vast majority of Russian assaults consist of air strikes. kyiv and Mariupol appear as the main fronts and are undoubtedly Moscow’s priority targets: Mariupol because its capture would make the junction between the territories already dominated by the Russians in the south and east of the country and kyiv because it is the center nerve center of Ukraine.