Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news

Volodymyr Zelenskyy granted state awards to 106 warriors, 18 of them posthumously.

Over 50 new ambulances are going to the AFU, the Ministry of Healthcare informs.
The ambulances were provided by international partners.

“Mercedes cars have high passability, the right level of protection and the equipment needed to save lives in combat. Ambulances allow to evacuate up to 4 injured at once”, the Ministry of Healthcare explains.

The artillery of the 57th Motorized Brigade destroyed D-30 artillery battery of the enemy.

President of the USA Joe Biden states that if aggressor-state Russia uses chemical weapons against Ukraine there will be a “response” the nature of which will depend on the “nature of the use [of the chemical weapon]”.

Japanese oil refineries Eneos and Idemitsu refuse russian oil.

Kyiv — air alarm canceled!

During one month of the russian attacks in Kharkiv region 306 civilians were killed, 15 of them children, – police informs.

German Chancellor Scholz called for a steady supply of weapons to Ukraine.

In Kyiv President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting with the Head of the Latvian Parliament Saeima Ināra Mūrniece,  the Speaker of the Republic of Lithuania Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen and the Head of the Republic of Estonia Riigikogu Jüri Ratas.

In Kyiv from the beginning of russian invasion 87 apartment buildings, 10 private buildings, 12 schools and 6 kindergartens were damaged. 75 civilians were killed in the capital, 4 children included. 307 civilians were injured, including 16 children, – Vitalij Klychko informs.

Kharkiv and Kharkiv region — air alarm!

Occupants fired on a train evacuating people from Kyiv to Ivano-Frankivsk.
It happened near Vasylkiv.
Windows in three wagons are crushed.
Previously, no victims reported, Ukrzaliznytsia writes.

Occupants were exiled from Malynivka village in Zaporizhia region, Zaporizhia RMA informs.
“Three out of five big villages which are a part of community are completely occupied by the enemy – Lubimivka, Novozlatopil and, to this day, Malinivka. At the moment, our troops are clearing up, so Malynivka has been liberated,” said Volodymyr Shysh, head of the Malynivka community.

"Evil never stops by itself. If no one stops it, it will come to every European home".
The President's Office has published a video drawing parallels between World War II and current war against Ukraine.

Biden believes that instead of Russia Ukraine must be invited to the future G20 Summit.

Cherkasy region — air alarm canceled!

In Tbilisi the bodies of two volunteers , Georgij Beriashvili and David Ratiani who fought in Ukraine against russians, were met with Georgian and Ukrainian flags. They died in battle last week.

G7 leaders warned Lukashenko on responsibility for supporting Putin in the war against Ukraine.
G7 also warns against any threat to the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

Which chemical weapon may be used by Russia and how to stop Putin. Western media review.

Results of the NATO Summit. 12 key statements and decisions.

Kyiv — air alarm! All in shelters!

Occupants take away passports from Ukrainians who are forced to move to Crimea because of the humanitarian catastrophe, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security informs.
Instead, "temporary certificates" are issued.

Men also recieve subpoenas. Some of them are mobilized to the war.

Russian equipment is constantly moving on the peninsula.

Morgues and hospitals are overcrowded, the real losses of the enemy are hidden.

Russians fired at themselves from the helicopter in Kharkic region, Oleh Synehubov states.
“Enormous numbers of personnel and military equipment of the occupying forces were demolished in Mala Rohan. These were the occupants who were constantly shelling Kharkiv with artillery and MLRS”, the head of the RSA writes.

Situation at the front for the past 24 hours:

• according to given information, russian headquarters constantly repeat to their soldiers that the war must end by May 2022;
• russian medical institutions in the settlements near Ukraine are filled with russian soldiers;
• the enemy takes measures to restore the combat effectiveness of military units of the airborne troops as a matter of urgency;
• russian occupants face enormous difficulties with control of the population on temporarily occupied territories. Attempts to establish fake pro-russian government with traitors and collaborators receive no support from the locals;
• in the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic local russian curators spread rumors of the involvement of Transnistria in the war with Ukraine;
• nearly 100 russian soldiers were burried in temporarily occupied Crimea;
• in Donetzk region occupants created filtration camp for civilians who try to leave Mariupil. Punitive bodies of russian FSB carry out so-called filtrating measures on detained people;
• occupants perform forceful evacuation of Ukrainian citizens in Kreminna and Rubizhne regions. People are being relocated to Voronezh region (Russia);
• occupants take away tractors from farmers in Chernihiv region to haul their damaged equipment;
• Ukrainian artillery defeated a battalion-tactical group from the 59th Tank Regiment of the Western Military District, which was operating in the direction of Kharkiv.

5 dead and 8 injured – concequences of Luhansk russian shelling on March 24, Serhiy Haidai, the head of Luhansk Regional State Administration, informs.

The situation in Luhansk region over the past 24 hours:

• russians opened fire on Severodonetzk, Kreminna, Lysychansk, Novodruzhesk, Rubizhne;
• the enemy used aviation, strikes missels;
• total of 32 objects are damaged: 7 apartment buildings, 9 private buildings, school and cinema in Severodonetzk, outbuildings, garages, infrastructure;
• 18 people were rescued;
• there is no gas supply in 27 settlements - completely in 22 and partially in 5 (in total it is about 32 550 consumers).

Cherkasy region — air alarm! All in shelters!

Only five Belarusian diplomats remain in Ukraine. The accreditation of the rest will be canceled, Oleh Nikolenko, the spokesman of Ukrainian MFA, informs.

Their stay on the territory of Ukraine, as well as the stay of their family members, is declared as unwanted.

That is the answer of Ukraine to hostile actions of Belarus towards the workers of Ukrainian diplomatic institutions in Minsk and Brest.

Ukraine also establishes permitting mode of movement outside the 40-kilometer zone from the center of Kyiv for Belarusian diplomats after their return to Ukraine.

Ukraine abolishes the exequatur of the Honorary Consul of Belarus in Lviv.

Criminal proceedings against five collaborators in Luhansk region were registered by Starobilsk District Prosecutor's Office of Luhansk Region.

According to the investigation, in March 2022 five citizens of Ukraine voluntarily took positions of chairmen and deputy chairmen of so-called Starobilsk, Markiv, Novopskovsk and Bilovodsk district state administrations of “LNR” (“LPR”).

Presently they perform organizational and administrative functions in the illegal authorities created on temporarily occupied territories.

United Nations General Assembly voted for the resolution: Russia is required to provide access to humanitarian help for civilians in Ukraine.

Tons of scrap metal that were russian military equipment before meeting the AFU, – video from General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine informs: In Kharkiv region occupants persuade local collaborators to kidnap children.

There is already a stated case when they [collaborators] broke into the home of a man who, according to russians, has weapons. He was not at home, was out for humanitarian stuff. That was the reason for the collaborators to kidnap two underaged sons.

The collaborators begun to blackmail the man via phone.
„He confessed that he has actually found one assault rifle under the bridge and is ready to give it up for his children. Enemy henchmen replied that one assault rifle is worth of one of his sons so they need to negotiate“, the message says.

Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes address from the leaders of Czech Republic, Georgia, Romania, Slovenia:

“We will continue to help and support you and together with our partners will do everything possible to stop this unfair war”.

A joint photo of the released Ukrainian prisoners of war has appeared. Source: Kyrylo Tymoshenko.

Arestovych to occupants: “You have to understand that the revenge of the nation will hunt you down in 8, in 10 and in 20 years because the crimes you've committed have no amnesty or statute of limitations”.

The only directions in which occupants continue to concentrate their forces are Izyum, Marinka, Mariupil and there is also some fuss on the right bank of Dnipro near Kherson. Those are the places where enemy has actually prepared defense, – Oleksiy Arestovych.

In Kharkiv direction Ukrainian military shot down 1 UAV and one Su-34 fighter-bomber in one day.

New language of russia: instead of the word "dissmisal" russian ministry of labor claims that approximately 59 000 workers in russia "declared for release". 14,000 of them are already on unpaid leave.

Ukrainian army continues extermination of russian military equipment.

The state-owned Antonov enterprise has set up a fund to revive the An-225 Mriya transport aircraft destroyed by the occupiers. It has the necessary design and scientific and technical documentation to rebuild it, but lacks the money.

The company has solicited financial support for the project from world leaders and governments, aircraft manufacturers, suppliers, banks and financial institutions and ordinary people.

Cover of The Economist. The civilised world must give up Russian oil to limit the aggressor country's opportunities.

Intelligence: Libraries in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk, Donetsk, Chernihiv and Sumy regions have started seizing Ukrainian historical and fiction literature that does not coincide with the postulates of Kremlin propaganda.

The police are most interested in books on the history of the Ukrainian Maidan, ATO/JFO, and the history of Ukrainian liberation struggles. Extremist" literature includes school textbooks on Ukrainian history, scientific and popular historical literature.

Zelenskyy during a conversation with G7 representatives: It is better to give Ukraine support with weapons that we really need now, than to look for weapons for other countries - Georgia, Moldova, the Baltic States, Poland, Central Asian countries.

Twelve Rosgvardiya officers from the Krasnodar riot police unit have refused to go to Ukraine. They said that the order to cross into Ukraine was illegal and that it violated both Russian and Ukrainian laws.

The riot police were returned to Krasnodar and, after a service inspection, they were dismissed. They challenged the dismissal in court.

The first full-fledged exchange of prisoners of war took place today. In exchange for 10 captured occupiers, we pulled out 10 of our servicemen - Iryna Vereshchuk.

The Verkhovna Rada has voted in favour of introducing criminal responsibility for photographing or videotaping the deployment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The sanction of the article is imprisonment for three to five years. Under aggravating circumstances, the punishment could be increased to 12 years imprisonment.

Full video of the destruction of a Russian landing ship in the port of Berdyansk.

The USA is ready to accept up to 100,000 refugees from Ukraine. In particular, the White House is working to expand and develop new programmes with a focus on accepting Ukrainians with relatives in the US.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell: Russia does not want to sit down at the negotiating table and negotiate anything: it wants to occupy territories. It only wants to negotiate seriously when it secures a strong position.

Another batch of trophies from the Ukrainian military.

The head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, Oleh Synegubov: In Kharkiv, near Akademika Pavlova Street, Russians used long-range weapons to shell a Nova Posta post office near which Kharkiv residents were receiving humanitarian aid. According to preliminary reports, six civilians were killed and 15 others wounded.