UKRAINE WAR. Ukraine is recovering from a night of violence on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. On the 20th day of the war, kyiv suffered three explosions, killing at least two, while several airstrikes were fired at Kharkiv. Talks are due to resume today.
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08:53 – Journalist Marina Ovsyannikova under investigation by the Russian investigative commission
According to Financial Times reporter, Russian Channel 1 journalist Marina Ovsyannikova and detained for her anti-war protest on TV news and is subject to ‘pre-investigation review’ by Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The newspaper specifies that it is “the major crimes unit”, this seems to indicate that the young woman faces a heavy sentence.
08:49 – Health facilities bombed during the war in Ukraine
The bombardments affect all the war zones, in Luhansk the last Russian strikes destroyed a boarding school for the visually impaired, a municipal hospital and three schools in Rubizhne according to information from Sergei Gaidai, head of the regional civil-military administration issued to the New Way of Ukraine. Four people have died according to preliminary data.
08:42 – 19 dead in TV tower attack
The toll of the attack on the television tower which occurred yesterday in Antopil in the Rivne region is revised upwards on Tuesday with 19 dead against 9 so far. The number of injured people remains unchanged according to information from the head of the regional military administration.
08:34 – Images of the interruption of the Russian JT
The stealthy but clearly visible passage of the journalist denouncing the war in Ukraine on the set of the most watched television news in Russia is taken up on social networks. The video extract proves the censorship of the Russian public media with the launch of a report but despite this attempt the message of the journalist and activist had time to cross the screens.
Her name is Marina Ovsiannikova, she has two children, she works for this television channel and she was immediately arrested. Tremendous bravery https://t.co/gbbp3xgPus
— Sylvie Kauffmann (@SylvieKauffmann) March 14, 2022
08:26 – Resumption of talks during the day
The fourth round of talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations are due to resume on Tuesday March 15 after being put on hold yesterday for technical reasons. Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confided in the difficulty of the negotiations but remained hopeful. Ukraine calls for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory.
08:20 – A Russian journalist denounces the war in Ukraine in the JT
Last night, Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova took all the risks by appearing on Russian Channel 1 news with a sign that read: “No to war. Don’t believe propaganda. You are being lied to, here”. The woman defied the Kremlin’s ban on calling the military operation in Ukraine a “war” and was immediately arrested. Earlier in the day, the journalist spoke on video to explain that having a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, she could “not see as enemies the two countries of her parents”. And to add: “What is happening in Ukraine is a crime, and the aggressor is Russia. The responsibility for this crime weighs on the conscience of one man and one only: Vladimir Poutineé.
08:00 – Kharkiv in flames after Russian strikes
Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, was also targeted by Russian attacks overnight Monday to Tuesday. The New Way of Ukraine news outlet reports that the shells were fired around 11:30 p.m. and hit trading floors and residential buildings in the Kholodnogorsky district. Fires broke out and spread over a wide area after the attacks. The pyrotechnic units of the state emergency service have multiplied the trips to put out the fires and remove the unexploded ordnance.
07:53 – Three explosions and two deaths in kyiv
Three explosions sounded in kyiv early in the morning. The Russian strikes hit two residential buildings, another multi-storey building and a private house in three districts of Ukraine’s capital. State emergency services are mobilized on the spot, we already know that the attacks left two dead and sent one person to hospital. 35 civilians have been rescued and the rescue operation continues in the rubble.
03/14/22 – 9:35 p.m. – Talks “more constructive than expected”
END OF LIVE – Could this be the good news of the evening? According to the adviser to the president’s office, Oleksiy Arestovych, the talks between Ukraine and Russia are taking place “in a fairly constructive manner” on Monday 14 March. They would even be “more constructive than expected”. “This is especially true on the Russian side. They are showing an unprecedented constructive spirit because battlefield losses and sanctions have made them see the true picture of reality,” he said. And to add: “They are not even ready, they want to negotiate.”
03/14/22 – 9:04 p.m. – Seven of the 10 humanitarian corridors operational this Monday
According to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, on the 19th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 10 humanitarian corridors were to be set up. Only seven were finally able to be made operational. “kyiv region: 2,028 people were rescued. 400 people were rescued from Gostomel, 620 from Nemyshayev and Vorzel’, 100 from Dmitrovka and 800 from Peremoha. From the city of Severodonetsk: 600. From the city of Popasna: 210 From the village of Gorske: 76. From the town of Rubizhne: 480. From Kreminna: 82. And from Lysychansk: 340”, she detailed. According to her, a total of about 4,000 people have been saved today thanks to the humanitarian corridors.
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After weeks of lying poker and an escalation not officially declared in recent days, Russia has therefore announced that it will go to war with Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022. In a televised speech published early Thursday, Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” to “protect people who have been intimidated for eight years by the kyiv regime”. The Russian president’s decision comes after the latter recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, territories established in Ukraine but ruled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014. “Treaties of friendship and mutual aid” had been signed on February 22 between Russia and these territories in the east of the country, paving the way for a military intervention by Russia, to which Vladimir Putin has therefore committed.
If for several years, tensions have been high in the separatist regions of Ukraine, where the conflict escalated in the days preceding the Russian invasion of February 24, war was finally declared throughout the country. Although Russia borders only to the east of Ukraine, it is all the main cities of the country, everywhere on the territory, which are under the bombings and armed raids. Starting with the capital kyiv, and its surroundings, attacked by Russian forces. Yet located several hundred kilometers from the Russian border, the country’s first city is only 150 km by road from Belarus, a country friendly to Russia through which Vladimir Putin’s forces entered Ukraine. .
Southern Ukraine and the shores of the Black Sea are the scene of fierce fighting between Russians and Ukrainians. The Soviet army got the better of the cities of Kherson and Berdiansk, it is in a position of strength along the entire coast as far as Odessa, in the west, where an assault by the Russian navy is preparing. In the south-east, Mariupol is the last city to resist and to obstruct the junction between the conquered territories of Donbass and the Russian advance in the south of the country. To the north and east the Kremlin soldiers are advancing and striking at Chernihiv and Kharkiv in addition to Donetsk and Lugansk, which have been concentrating tensions for eight years and the beginning of the war in Donbass. Western Ukraine was spared despite isolated attacks and bombardments near Poland, in Lutsk, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
The war in Ukraine has been gaining momentum since the invasion of Ukraine by the Russians on February 24, 2022. The conflict between the Kremlin and the government in kyiv presents significant risks and raises fears of the outbreak of an international war and potentially nuclear. The consequences of the conflict are not limited to the borders of Ukraine or Russia and can affect Europe more widely. Find all the news related to the war in Ukraine.