UKRAINE WAR. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnky accuses Moscow of attacking the humanitarian corridor leading to Mariupol. The Russian bombardments resumed this Friday, March 11, 2022 with several strikes on civilian areas in Dnipro, Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk.
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09:13 – Western Ukraine under bombardment
Dnipro, east of Kiev is not the only city bombed this morning. To the west, Ivano-Frankivsk and Loutsk also suffered several Russian bombardments. This part of the country has been relatively spared since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but these shots seem to reflect Moscow’s desire to further expand the deployment of its armed forces.
09:06 – Three Russian airstrikes in Dnipro
This Friday, March 11, 2022, the city of Dnipro was targeted by three airstrikes according to Kiev. It was civil infrastructure that was severely affected: a kindergarten, a residential building and a business. State emergency services counted one dead after the Russian attacks, rescue operations continue.
09:02 – The situation in Ukraine at 9 a.m.
Situation update in Ukraine :
- Three Russian airstrikes were launched on the morning of this Friday, March 11 on the city of Dnipro, east of Kiev. Only civilian targets were hit including a kindergarten, a residential building and a business. One death has been reported so far by Ukraine’s emergency service.
- The Russian army attacked the humanitarian corridor of Mariupol, a port city in southern Ukraine besieged by Moscow, preventing supplies and especially the evacuation of civilians. Volodymyr Zelensky denounces this Russian offensive, “Russian troops have not ceased fire. […] The occupiers launched a tank attack exactly where this corridor was supposed to pass,” he said.
- To the west and northwest, the cities of Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk were targeted by Russian bombardments.
- The city of Mykolaiv, the last rampart before Odessa in the south-west of the country, is also the victim of intense bombardments.
Balance sheet of the war in Ukraine :
- The Ukrainian Human Rights Office, a body belonging to the UN, draws up a balance sheet of “549 people killed, including 41 children [et] 957 injured, including 52 children” between February 24 and March 9. But according to the organization, the figures are “considerably higher”.
- According to Ukraine, more than 12,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of the war. A balance sheet which could however prove to be extremely inflated.
- Russia, for its part, did not give a new assessment. The latest, dated Wednesday March 2, announced the death of 498 soldiers and 1,597 wounded.
- More than two million people have left Ukraine since the start of the war according to a UN report.
Latest major news :
- At a summit in Versailles, the European Union gathered on the initiative of Emmanuel Macron ruled out rapid accession by Ukraine. However, “we want to work intensively with Ukraine,” assured Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
- The French presidency “does not see a diplomatic solution” in the short term to end the war in Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron promises to continue discussions with Vladimir Putin.
- Ukraine and Russia said they were “ready” on Thursday March 10 to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to guarantee the security of Ukrainian nuclear sites.
- Talks between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers held on Thursday also did not result in any new ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. They assure all the same that the negotiations will continue.
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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 Kiev 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 Kiev, and its surroundings, attacked by Russian forces. Yet located several hundred kilometers from the Russian border, the country’s first city is only 150km 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 southeast, Mariupol is the last city to resist and to block 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.