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

The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the town of Energodar have been under the control of Russian occupiers for 10 days now. As of the morning of 14 March, 50 enemy vehicles, around 400 Russian servicemen, explosives and weapons are at the plant, according to Energoatom.

"Now all six power units of the Zaporizhzhya NPP are controlled by Ukrainian personnel, the changes have the possibility of rotation. Formally, the occupiers do not interfere in the work of the NPP, but all technical decisions the personnel have to agree with the invader commander. The plant employees are under strong psychological pressure from the occupiers. to the plant is thoroughly checked by armed terrorists," according to Energoatom.

The fourth round of negotiation of Ukraine and Russia starts. It was announced by the Advisor to the Head of the President’s Office Mykailo Podolyak in Twitter.

“Almost in several minutes the negotiations with russian delegation will be started. The fourth round. We will try to convince them at last that 19 days of the war is a 19days great achievement of the country”, he said.

Podolyak added that positions of Ukraine are the same: peace, immediate stop of fire and exit of all russian troops.

“Only after this we will be able to speak of some neighbour relationships, some political settlements”.

Negotiations. 4th round. On peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops & security guarantees. Hard discussion. Although Russia realizes the nonsense of its aggressive actions, it still has a delusion that 19 days of violence against

In Zaporizhzhya Region, occupiers have shelled the Popov Manor museum-reserve, the head of the Zaporizhzhya regional state administration's culture and information policy department, Vlad Moroko, has said.

In addition, Russian troops took out of the museum a marble toilet bowl from the time of the Counts Popovs.

"This toilet bowl was first stolen back by the Bolsheviks. Subsequently, someone of the thieves' descendants 'returned' the artefact to the museum," Moroko wrote.

As of 14 March, 90 children had been killed and more than 100 others wounded since the outbreak of full-scale war, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Bombardment and shelling have damaged 379 educational institutions, 59 of which were completely destroyed. Donetsk region suffered the most damage with 119 schools. There were 30 in Mykolayiv Region, 28 in Sumy Region, 35 in Kyiv Region, 21 in Kherson Region, and 24 in the capital.

In Malyn (Zhytomyr region), rubble from a Russian missile damaged the premises of a kindergarten and several private houses, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said.
There were no fatalities or injuries.

In Kyiv and Lugansk region 10 humanitarian corridors will be open March 14, it was informed by Irina Vereschuk, Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories.

The following routes are planned:

- From villages Bogdanivka and Nova Bogdanivka, Peremoga in Baryshivka community, Bobryk – to Brobary town

- From Gostomel, village Nemishaeve, Vorzelj, Dmytrivka – to Bilogodka

- In Lugansk region a humanitarian corridor open from towns Severodonetsk , Popasna, villages Girske to Sloviansk town

Also today there will be one more effort to unblock the humanitarian convoy with food and medicine from Berdiansk through Mangush to Mariupol

The occupiers shelled the National University of the Chernihiv Polytechnic at night, Chernihiv regional administration head Vyacheslav Chaus has said. In addition, the "Hurricanes" shelled Nizhyn. According to preliminary reports, there were no civilian casualties.

Local authorities will discuss with the central government the possibility of a "green corridor" from Chernihiv and other localities in the region.

Dmytro Kuleba: "To those abroad afraid of being 'dragged into World War III'. Ukraine is successfully resisting. We need you to help us fight. Provide us with the weapons we need. Apply more sanctions against Russia and isolate it completely. Help Ukraine force Putin to fail, and you will avoid a bigger war.

The US corporation Oracle has responded to a tweet by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which he called on tech giants Microsoft, Oracle and SAP to halt operations in Russia.

The company says it has stopped all operations in Russia, cut off access to support, made software updates and patches unavailable, and suspended all consulting and advanced customer support services.

Oracle has also suspended operations of all Russian partners and their subsidiaries and noted that its products are no longer allowed to be exported, re-exported or transferred to Russia.

On the 19th day of the war in Ukraine russian army lost more than 12000 personnel staff and thousands of vehicles. It is informed by Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Losses of the occupier during February – March 14:

• More than 12000 personal staff
• Tanks – 389
• militant armored vehicles - 1249
• artillery systems - 150
• light artillery rocket systems – 64
• air defense systems – 34
• planes – 77
• helicopters – 90
• automobile vehicles – 617
• ships/cutters – 3
• fuel tanks – 60
• drones – 8

How was last night – a report from regional state administrations.

• Kyiv region. Fights in Irpin, Makariv. Enemy vehicle moving is identified within towns of Baryshiv, Kalyta, Velyki Dymery and Kalynivka territorial communities.

• Chernigiv region. Defensive fights next Chernigiv. Three air raids on Chernigiv were done by the enemy. Most of the city is without heat, some suburbs are without electricity for 3 days already, some of the city’s districts are without electricity for 5 or more days. Part of the city is without water. Information on distruction is being specified.

• Sumy region. The night started with shelling of Ohtyrka. They hit the civilians houses, details are under specification. For today there were negotiations of green corridors, but none of the routes is agreed.

• Zhytomyr region. In Stavysche village seven buildings and five houses are destroyed as a result of shelling. 4 persons are injured, 14 persons are evacuated from the houses affected by the srtickes.

• Kharkiv region. At night shelling of civilian districts of Kharkiv continued, specifically Saltivka, Novi Budynky. Number of victims is not identified. There were active fights within the region in the direction of Izum. Army of Ukraine is gradually displacing the occupier.

• Zaporizhzhy region. There was identified a mortal calculator and vehicle concentration of the enemy which was affected by artillery. Besides enemy vehicle, a storage with military ammunition of the enemy was hit by our solders.

• Rivne region. Strike in a TV tower. Television and radio do not work. The number of victims is under specification.

• Lugansk region. Severodonetsk is under constant artillery strikes. There were 18 hits in living houses. It is hot in Rubizhne. 1600 persons are successfully evacuated by a humanitarian corridor.

• Donetsk region. Attempt to breakthrough Mariinsky district. In Kramatorsk a private house was burnt, there are victims. Russian were striking Avdiivka coke chemical factory by MLRS “Grad”. Occupiers entered Volnovakha. Mariupol remains under surrounding.

• Mykolaiv region. In Snygurivka there were ruined private houses as a result of shelling. Number of victims is under specification.

A drone that fell in Zagreb, capital of Croatia, on March 10, was carrying a projectile of 120 kg weight. That was informed HRT media citing some sources in Ministry of Defense in Croatia.

HRT also detailed that a projectile located on the drone, exploded under the ground. As it was said to the media, in case it fell onto concrete or asphalt, and not onto a soft ground, consequences would be catastrophic.

Croatian authorities continue to investigate the accident and a type of the projectile with its target. It is also not known yet from whose territory the drone appeared – from russian or from Ukrainian. Using pictures from the radars and data in digital systems, Croatia and its NATO allies are finding out who exactly and with what purpose launched the drone

One of the leaders of industrial reciprocating compressors production, Swiss company Burckhardt Compression announced the reject to export their products to Russia. It is said on their website.

Burckhardt Compression compressors systems are used in such branches as oil and gas extraction, gas transportation and its storage, oil refining, petrochemical and chemical industry, industrial gases production.

There appeared three fire centers in a hangar in Sviatoshyn district in Kyiv as a result of occupiers’ shelling, reported by State Emergency Service of Ukraine. The roof of the hangar was also destroyed. The fire was extinguished at 8:12 a.m. There are no victims and injured ones.

The 10th Mountain Assault Brigade continues to destroy enemy vehicles.

On 14 March, occupiers bombed Akhtyrka in Sumy Region. According to town mayor Pavlo Kuzmenko, they hit a residential sector and killed at least three civilians.

As of 8:00 am, there were no queues at the borders with Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova, according to the Western Regional Department of the State Border Service of Ukraine.

There are 30 cars at the Shehyny border crossing to Poland. There are no queues at other Polish checkpoints.

Brilliant Stugna-P (Skif) in operation: the accurate position selection and aiming at a moving target as well!

Eight cases of fires were recorded in Chernihiv on 13 March. This was reported by the head of the regional state administration, Vyacheslav Chaus. A total of 213 fires have been extinguished since the beginning of the war, including 160 blazes caused by shelling or bombing. A total of 35 people, including 10 children, have been rescued.
In Chernihiv, gas, heating and water supply have been partially cut off as a result of bombs hitting civilian infrastructure. Power cutoffs remain in 226 settlements in the region: in Chernihiv (195), Nizhyn (27) and Prilutsk (4) districts.

Vitaly Portnikov's opinion: Why Vladimir Putin needs Alexander Lukashenko's army - russian version.

The hours-long negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko took place on 11 March without concluding press statements. However, it is clear to observers what the Russian and Belarusian rulers are talking about and why they meet so often. Putin needs Lukashenko to become a party to the war against Ukraine. And he has literally done so. Lukashenko is already providing the territory of Belarus for the Russian aggression against Ukraine. However, it is important for the Russian president that it is the Belarusian army that is involved in the invasion.

For what the Russian president wants that? And why did he need to hold a "live" meeting of the Russian Security Council where the decision to recognise the independence of the so-called "people's republics" of Donbas was taken? To share responsibility with his comrades-in-arms, to demonstrate that he had the full support of Russia's entire top leadership. So that there would be no one to say that he had no part in making this criminal decision that allowed Putin to attack Ukraine.

Zaporizhzhya Regional Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine" reports that the radiation background on the territory of Zaporizhzhya region remains unchanged and does not pose a threat to life and health of the population.

• Energodar - 9,4 μR/hour;
• Zaporizhzhya - 13 μR/hour;
• K-Dneprovska - 10,8 μR/hour;
• Melitopol - 6 - 11 μR/hour;
• Vasylivka - 15 μR/hour.

Such figures do not exceed the natural background typical for these territories.

Computer company ASUS plans to "evacuate" its employees and business from Russia. This was announced by Taiwan's Economy Minister Wang Mei-Hua, according to Reuters.

A few days ago, Ukraine's Minister for Digital Transformation, Mykhaylo Fedorov, publicly called on ASUS chairman Johnny Shea to stop operating in Russia. "The Russians have no moral right to use your brilliant technologies. They are for peace, not war," Fedorov said.

The head of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, commenting on the letter to journalists on the sidelines of parliament, said that ASUS would surely consider its reputation and develop a plan to come out of the Russian market. ASUSTeK Computer Inc did not respond to a request for comment.

Video of the liquidation of the consequences of enemy shelling of a residential building at Bohatyrska St. in the Obolonsky district of Kyiv.

In Kyiv, the occupiers also shelled the Antonov Serial Production Plant, the Kyiv city state administration has said.

“There was a shootout right next to me”: how Kharkiv is experiencing Russian attacks.

The Security Service of Ukraine intercepted a conversation between the occupiers near Kharkiv, where they said they had been ordered to shoot at civilians.
Some Kharkiv residents remain in the city, some have been evacuated. LIGA.Life spoke to three Kharkiv residents who left the city in March and one volunteer who remains to help locals survive.

At 2:40 a.m. on 14 March, the occupiers launched a missile attack on the administrative building of the Stavyshche urban type settlement (Zhytomyr Region), the State Emergency Service has reported.

Four people were injured. According to preliminary information, 7 buildings were destroyed. Now the searching works continue.

French President Emmanuel Macron has discussed sanctions against Russia with US President Joe Biden and aid to Ukraine with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This was reported by the press service of the Elysee Palace.

During his conversation with the US president, Macron expressed condolences over the death of US journalist Brent Renaud, who was killed yesterday by occupiers in Ukraine, and discussed further strengthening of sanctions already imposed against Russia and initiatives that could end the battles in Ukraine.

In his conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Macron expressed his full support and told in detail about the additional aid that the European Union will provide to Ukraine under the agreements reached during the EU summit in Versailles. The two heads of state also discussed further negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to be continued.

At 05:09, an artillery shell hit a nine-storey residential building at 20 Bogatyrska Street (Obolon district, Kyiv). A fire broke out and flats were damaged, Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Interior Ministry, has said. 

There was partial destruction from the first to the third floor. Flats on the third and fourth floors caught fire.
The State Emergency Service reported that at 07:04 the fire was extended to an area of 500 square metres. Four people were rescued and the searching work continues.

How the day passed- a report from the AFU General Staff.

• The AFU carried out devastating strikes on the enemy's rear infrastructure (field bases and depots) to disrupt its logistical support.
  
  
• The air force shot down four Russian aircraft, three helicopters and three UAVs during the previous 24 hours.
  
  
• A military camp has been set up in Belgorod, where Russian soldiers dismissed from hospitals are being held and also are waiting to be sent to their units. There are also military servicemen in the camp who are refusing to take part in the war, and pre-trial confessions are being made with them.
  
  
• The General Staff reported that according to a high-ranking Belarusian special forces official, the Belarusian special forces will not take part in the war with Ukraine.
  
  
• The occupiers have had little success in the offensive in all directions. The main efforts were aimed at consolidating and holding the previously occupied frontiers.

As a result of an air strike, a television tower in the Rivne region was damaged. This was reported by the head of the Rivne Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Koval. He also added, “relevant services are working on the spot.” Details are to be updated.

The Czech Republic will provide additional military aid to Ukraine worth at least 31.5m dollars, government spokesman Vaclav Smolko has told CNN. He did not specify what exactly the package included, but noted that the timing of delivery depended on when his government would be able to receive "the necessary material".

The Japanese manufacturer of copier and laser equipment Ricoh announced a halt in the export of its products to Russia. The company also noted that they would initiate a donation to the International Red Cross Society to help all the victims.

The US State Department has seen some signs of Russian President Vladimir Putin's readiness for real talks on the war in Ukraine, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Fox News. According to her, one of the goals of the United States is to put pressure on Putin to achieve a ceasefire, get humanitarian corridors and end the war. Sherman also noted that it still seems that Putin intends to destroy Ukraine.

The United States Conference of Mayors demands the immediate release of the Mayor of MelitopolIvan Fedorov, who was kidnapped by Russian troops.

“This terrorism cannot be tolerated, and we call on the international community to do whatever is necessary to secure his freedom,” the statement reads.

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly reacted to the missile attack on the Yavoriv test site. She condemned the attack and said that the Russian president “must call an end to his unjustified and brutal war.”

Canada strongly condemns the Russian regime’s missile attack on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Yavoriv.

President Putin must call an end to his unjustified and brutal war.

— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) March 14, 2022

Localities of Kherson region continue to actively manifest their civil stance to the invaders. On March 13, the town of Hola Prystan saw people rally in support of Ukraine as local residents stepped into the streets bearing national symbols and performed the Ukrainian national anthem.

“We loudly emphasize that Ukrainians are a strong nation, that Hola Prystan and all of the Kherson region is Ukraine”, local residents said.

Russian Orthodox Church of Amsterdam is one of the first among the western churches to announce its break from the Patriarchate of Moscow due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. This has been announced on the church’s website.

The announcement emphasizes that the parish council made a decision to support such move by the clergy and suggests the parish members do the same. General meeting is scheduled for March 26.
Russian Orthodox Church of Amsterdam specified that there would be no service in the church before the general parish meeting, “not only for safety purposes, but also due to pastor’s discretion”. Clergy believes that in this complicated situation they are not able to pray genuinely.

On March 14, Australian government announced new sanctions against key Russian oligarchs, famous businessmen, and their closest family members. The sanctions are imposed on those who enjoy enormous fortune and have economic and strategic significance for Russia, including those associated with Putin.

Amongst the sanctioned are Roman Abramovych, owner of the Chelsey Football Club, Aleksey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom, Dmitry Lebedev, CEO of Rossiya Bank, Sergey Chemezov, CEO Rostec, Nikolay Tokarev, President of TransNeft, Igor Shuvalov, Head of the State Development Corporation (VEB.RF), and Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

How the day passed- a report from the AFU General Staff.

• The AFU carried out devastating strikes on the enemy's rear infrastructure (field bases and depots) to disrupt its logistical support.
  
  
• The air force shot down four Russian aircraft, three helicopters and three UAVs during the previous 24 hours.
  
  
• A military camp has been set up in Belgorod, where Russian soldiers dismissed from hospitals are being held and also are waiting to be sent to their units. There are also military servicemen in the camp who are refusing to take part in the war, and pre-trial confessions are being made with them.
  
  
• The General Staff reported that according to a high-ranking Belarusian special forces official, the Belarusian special forces will not take part in the war with Ukraine.
  
  
• The occupiers have had little success in the offensive in all directions. The main efforts were aimed at consolidating and holding the previously occupied frontiers.

Ukrzaliznytsia published an evacuation train schedule for March 14 on its Facebook page.

Kharkiv:
• 9:40 - №229/230 Kharkiv – Uzhhorod;
• 13:00 - №239/240 Kharkiv – Lviv.

Dnipro:
• 10:30 - №907/908 Dnipro – Chelm;
• 12:30 - №228/227 Dnipro - Chop;
• 20:00 - №234/233 Dnipro - Chop.

Kryvyi Rih:
• 11:00 - №219/220 Kryvyi Rih – Chop;
• 16:00 - №915/916 Kryvyi Rih – Chelm.

Additional trains will be dispatched from Kyiv to Chelm at 19:13, from Odesa to Uzhhorod at 22:32, and from Uzhhorod to Kyiv.

Citizens continue to be evacuated from Slavyansk and Kramatorsk - they can use local electric trains and then transfer to a train to a required destination.

Former head coach of the Ukrainian National Soccer Team Andriy Shevchenko spoke at the protest in London, where people gathered in support of Ukraine and against the Russia’s military aggression.

“I was born in Ukraine. I am proud to be Ukrainian. At this moment of hardship, I am even more proud of it. I am grateful to our Army, our President, and our people who are defending our country today. They are defending our freedom. Please, fight with us. We shall always be together as we are forced to fight for our country and our people. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the nation. Ukraine is above all, I stand with you”, he said.

Head of the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War Iryna Vereshchuk states that the Russian soldiers will serve their punishment in Ukraine or will be exchanged for the Ukrainian military servicemen captured by Russia. According to her, relevant legal and procedural norms have already been developed.

“Undoubtedly, we are not barbarians and are not a horde like the Russian army. We will continue working as defined by the international humanitarian law. We will definitely form an exchange fund. The Russian prisoners of war shall be exchanged or they will serve their punishment in Ukraine”, specified Vereshchuk.

Russia Prosecutor’s Office has threatened a few western companies, namely McDonald's, P&G, Coca-Cola and IBM with arrests of their corporate leaders and property confiscation, should they leave the local market and criticize the government. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing their conversation sources.

The threats from the Russia’s Prosecutor’s Office were addressed to the companies in a variety of fields, including IT, food products, clothing brands, and banking.

Citing an intelligence source, The Daily Mail reports that Putin suffers from a cerebral disorder caused by dementia, Parkinson’s disease or roid rage, which can result from a lengthy steroid cancer treatment.

Behavior of the 69-year-old Russian president is being called “increasingly disorderly”. Concerns are also corroborated by his appearance as his face and neck are swollen and he is also fearful to approach the visitors of the Kremlin.

According to intelligence sources, Putin lives in an isolated world and does not receive any factual reciprocal information on the advancement of the Russian troops in Ukraine. He is not being accurately informed about the failures.

On March 13, Maxar Technologies took a satellite image of the Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea. That island was one of the very first victims of the barbarian Russian invasion into Ukraine. This was reported by CNN.

This image shows the buildings on the island that suffered from the shelling. A Russian ship is anchored in the nearby waters of the Black Sea.

UK Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian troops blocked the Black Sea shoreline on the Ukrainian side, cutting the country’s access to international trading routes. This was reported by CNN.

Russia invaders set up their headquarters at the Smorodyno Railway Station located in the occupied town of Trostianets in Sumy region. This is where the Russian regular army stationed their equipment and where they keep attacking populated areas from. This was reported by the Head of the Sumy Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi.

There will be no green corridors on March 14 in Sumy region as not a single route has been agreed upon. This was communicated via Telegram by the Head of the Sumy Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi. He also added that negotiations continue.

The Bahamas have joined the sanctions against Russia and Belarus: they are ceasing all financial operations with the enterprises whose activity has been restricted across the globe. This was stated in the announcement released by the Central Bank of the Bahamas.

Organizations and companies of the islands are strongly discouraged from participating in any transactions associated with physical or legal entities of the Russian invaders and those of their allies.

China stated they have not heard of Russia asking for assistance in the war against Ukraine. This statement was made by the representative of the Embassy of China in Washington, Liu Pengyu, as Reuters reports.

“I have never heard of this”, he claimed.


National Security Advisor of the United States, James Sullivan, has warned Beijing of the consequences that would follow should China make a decision to provide Russia with military aid. This would result into global isolation.


According to the US officials, shortly after invasion, Russia turned to China asking both for military equipment and support.