kyiv, like other regions of western Ukraine, were targeted by new Russian air attacks this Sunday, March 24 in the morning. For the third time in a week, the entire territory was placed on alert overnight. Strikes which occur the day after Moscow took the village of Ivanivské, located between the key town of Chassiv Iar and Bakhmout, territory destroyed and occupied by Russia since May 2023.
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⇒ Russia accused of violating Polish airspace
⇒ New Russian air attacks on kyiv and other regions of Ukraine
⇒ Ukrainian army says it hit two Russian ships in Crimea
Russian cruise missile violates Polish airspace
A Russian cruise missile launched against towns in western Ukraine violated Polish airspace before leaving it, the operational command of the armed forces said this Sunday on the social network flew into Polish space near the village of Oserdow (east) and remained there for 39 seconds,” he said, stressing that the missile was observed by military radars for the entire duration of the flight.
Poland will demand explanations from Moscow for this “new airspace violation”, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted in a press release. “First of all, we demand that the Russian Federation stop terrorist airstrikes against the population and territory of Ukraine, end the war and deal with the country’s internal problems,” it said. read in the document.
“All air defense systems, all air force systems have been activated in Poland,” the Polish Defense Minister told the press, specifying that the army was monitoring the trajectories of a dozen Russian missiles in total. .
New Russian attacks on kyiv and other regions of Ukraine
At dawn on Sunday, Russian forces launched new massive air attacks on kyiv and other regions of Ukraine. According to Sergii Popko, head of the Kiev military administration, the Russian army attacked the capital using cruise missiles fired from Tu-95MS strategic bombers.
According to Serguii Popko, the attack was launched from the Saratov region in southwestern Russia. For the moment, no casualties have been reported. For the third time in a week, the entire Ukrainian territory was placed on alert overnight. This alert lasted two hours in the capital, according to the head of the kyiv military administration.
The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyï, reported missile attacks in the Stryï district, south of the city of Lviv.
Ukrainian army says it hit two Russian ships in Crimea
The Ukrainian army announced this Sunday, March 24, that it had hit two Russian “Yamal and Azoy amphibious” ships during an attack on Sevastopol, the large port on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. According to the center’s press release of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, “a communications center and other infrastructure of the Russian Black Sea Fleet” were also hit.
Russia claims to have conquered a new Ukrainian village
Russia claimed, on Saturday March 23, the conquest of the village of Ivanivské, located in an important sector of the front, near the key town of Chassiv Iar and Bakhmout, a town destroyed and occupied by Russia since May 2023. If Russian forces managed to conquer Chassiv Iar, they could intensify their attacks against Kramatorsk, a large city in Donbass controlled by Kiev and targeted more and more often by Russian bombings.
Russia also claimed in the evening to have repelled an attack by 10 Ukrainian missiles targeting the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, its governor, Mikhail Razvojaïev, said on Telegram. He then specified that the attack had left one dead, a 65-year-old civilian hit by missile debris, and four injured, including a teenager.
Moscow attack: Zelensky accuses Putin of “blaming” Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused his Russian counterpart on Saturday evening of seeking to “shift the blame” onto his country, the day after the attack which left 133 dead in the suburbs of Moscow. “They come to Ukraine, burn our cities and try to blame Ukraine. They torture and rape our people – and they blame them. They have brought hundreds of thousands of their own terrorists here, to Ukrainian lands […] and they do not care about what is happening in their own country,” he lambasted in his daily message.
During the day, Vladimir Putin promised to “punish” those responsible for the attack, ensuring that the attackers had been arrested on their way to Ukraine and not mentioning the claim of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). Although the latter claimed responsibility for the attack, the Kremlin leader made no mention of his involvement during his first televised address since the tragedy.