Ukraine: the chronicle of the day live – World

4:36 – Air-raid alarm in Lviv. The sirens went off at 4:20 local time and the loudspeakers ordered the residents to run to the shelters

4:35 – Refugees from Ukraine hosted by Australia will receive a three-year visa, which will allow them to obtain state health insurance and work permits

4:08 – The Russian military delivered more than 75 tons of humanitarian aid to Kherson

3:36 – Australian authorities will send at least 70,000 tons of thermal coal to Ukraine to ensure the country’s energy security

3:32 – The Australian government has imposed a ban on the export of alumina, aluminum ores and bauxite to Russia

3:00 – Zelensky: We are proving that we can fight

2:28 – The mayor of Sumy: 71 orphaned children evacuated abroad

00:17 – Anti-aircraft sirens are sounding in Kiev

20:55 – Ukrainian media reports bombing Kharkiv, with dead and wounded. According to Ukrainska Prava, which cites eyewitnesses, the attack hit some residential buildings and also caused fires. According to information from the Emergency Medical Center, there is also a child among the victims.

20:20 – Thousands of Mariupol residents have been taken to remote cities in Russia, “deported as the Nazis did during World War II”. The complaint comes from the Mayor of the war-torn city Vadym Boichenko, who posted a statement on Telegram, reports Ukrinform. “In the past week, several thousand residents of Mariupol have been brought to Russia. The occupiers have illegally taken people away from the Livoberezhny district and from an air-raid shelter in the building of a sports club, where more than a thousand people, mostly women and children, they were hiding from the bombing, “he said.

19:45 – According to former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, US President Joe Biden should visit Ukraine on March 24 when he comes to Europe for the NATO summit in Brussels and to attend a meeting of the European Council.

19:37 – “UNICEF today warned that children fleeing war in Ukraine face a greater risk of trafficking and exploitation. With more than 1.5 million children who have fled as refugees since February 24, and countless others displaced by violence within the country, the threat to children is real and growing “. This is what is stated in a note from Unicef

17:41 – Ukraine has evacuated 190,000 civilians from the conflict zones through the humanitarian corridors since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced this in an interview, as reported by the international media.

16:43 – “We do not give weight to propaganda. Instead, we encourage every political and diplomatic step that puts an end to the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Italy is alongside Ukraine and will continue to be so”. This was declared by the Minister of Defense, Lorenzo Guerini.

14:54 – The Farnesina “firmly rejects the threatening statements of the Director of the European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexei Paramonov, according to which any new sanctions” against Russia “would have irreversible consequences for Italy and calls on the” Russian Foreign Ministry “to act for the immediate cessation of the illegal and brutal aggression “against Ukraine,” which the Farnesina strongly condemns “. Italy with its European and international partners – underlines a note – will continue to exert all pressure so that Russia returns within the framework of international legality.

13:55 – In the Kiev region, a mortar round against the village of Makariv killed seven people and injured five others. This was reported by the press service of the police of the Kiev region quoted by UNIAN.

12:54 – Russia and China will strengthen their cooperation under the current circumstances, Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov is convinced. “Of course, I believe that the interaction will strengthen, considering that the West is trampling on every pillar of the international system and we, the two great powers, obviously have to think about how to proceed,” explained Lavrov quoted by Interfax.

12:39 – A total of 816 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 1,333 injured since the Russian invasion began on February 24, according to the UN Human Rights Office, reported by the Guardian. However, since the UN only reports the counts it can verify, it admits that the figures greatly underestimate the real budget.

12:39 – A total of 816 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 1,333 injured since the Russian invasion began on February 24, according to the UN Human Rights Office, reported by the Guardian. However, since the UN only reports the counts it can verify, it admits that the figures greatly underestimate the real budget.

11:31 – “Sanctions are not our choice. We would not want the logic of the French Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire, who declared” total financial and economic warfare “on Russia, to find followers in Italy and provoke a series of corresponding irreversible consequences. “. This is what Alexei Paramonov, director of the European department of the Russian foreign ministry, told the Ria Novosti agency. “We expect that in Rome, as in other European capitals, they will come to their senses anyway, remember the deep interests of their peoples, the constant peaceful and respectful of their foreign policy aspirations”.

10:44 – New anti-aircraft alarm in Lviv. The sirens began to sound a few minutes, at 11:30 (local time), in the midst of city activity and while the streets of the historic center were quite full of residents. From loudspeakers installed throughout the city, the Ukrainian military authorities invited citizens to go to shelters. Yesterday the mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyi asked the population to respect the rules when the sirens go off and not to stay in their homes.

10:40 – Russia is able to conduct its operation in Ukraine on its own, no one is asking us to intervene. This was stated by the Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, quoted by TASS.

10:15 – “In the current situation, your heartfelt invocations against war take the form of an appeal – addressed above all to those who have the destinies of so many human lives in their hands – so that the reasons for dialogue may be found again and a very serious situation put to an end. and unacceptable that endangers global security and stability “. Thus Sergio Mattarella in a message to Pope Francis on the occasion of the “IX anniversary of the solemn inauguration of the Pontificate”, underlining how the “solicitude” of the Pontiff is “a point of reference for making the reasons for peace prevail”.

08:21 – Russia claims to have used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry quoted by TASS.

08:04 – Another Russian general fell in battle in Ukraine: this is General Andrei Mordvichev who died in the city of Chernobayevka following artillery strikes, says the Ukrainian army in a post on Facebook quoted by the BBC.

07:46 – The governor of the Ukrainian region of Lugansk announced that today at 09.00 local time (08.00 in Italy) a humanitarian corridor will be opened to evacuate civilians. CNN writes it.

06:06 – Russia continues to block the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged cities “in most areas”. This is the denunciation of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who explained that yesterday seven humanitarian corridors continued: six in the Sumy region, one in the Donetsk region. More than 9,000 people were evacuated from the besieged city of Mariupol and hundreds of tons of essential goods delivered. “But – he added – the occupiers continue to block the supply of humanitarian aid to the besieged cities in most areas. This is a totally deliberate tactic. They have a clear order to do absolutely everything to promote the humanitarian catastrophe in our cities,” an “argument” to allow Ukrainians to collaborate with the occupiers. This is a war crime. “

05:10 – Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, there have been huge spikes in global food and energy prices. A US think tank – the Center for Global Development – warns that the magnitude of these spikes could push more than 40 million people around the world into “extreme poverty”.

03:35 – The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claims that the Russians managed to isolate them from the Sea of ​​Azov. “The occupiers have partially succeeded in the Donetsk operational area, temporarily depriving Ukraine of access to the Sea of ​​Azov,” reads a statement, reports the BBC online. However, the general staff says that Moscow is still hampered in all of its main war objectives.

02:10 – In a video message posted on Facebook, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for meaningful peace and security talks “without delay” with Moscow. “This is Russia’s only chance to reduce the damage caused by its mistakes,” in the wake of its invasion, Zelensky said. “It’s time to meet, it’s time to talk, it’s time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine. Otherwise, Russia’s losses will be such that it will take the country several generations to recover,” he added.

01:49 – The text of a possible treaty between Russia and Ukraine must be approved before even mentioning the possibility of a meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky. This was stated by the chief Russian negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, quoted by TASS.

01:39 – Two former American presidents, Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican George W. Bush, have expressed their support for Ukraine by visiting a Ukrainian church in Chicago. Wearing blue and yellow ribbons, colors of the Ukrainian flag, the two former presidents placed bouquets of sunflowers, the country’s symbolic flowers, in front of the Catholic Church of Saints Volodymyr and Olhae, then gathered in prayer.

01:09 – One of the 3 power lines of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, located near the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, which was damaged after the attack by Russian forces, is back in operation. According to the BBC online, which cites Interfax, Ukrainian technicians managed to repair one of the power lines that was blocked during the heavy bombardment by Russian forces. The nuclear power plant is under the full control of the Moscow military forces.

00:57 – The US Marines have confirmed that a plane with four soldiers on board crashed in northern Norway while taking part in NATO maneuvers called Cold Response. An investigation was opened, the American media reported, stressing that the fate of the four on board was not disclosed. The news was given by the Norwegian Relief Coordination Center (Jrcc).

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