On the 18th day of the war against Ukraine, Russian troops continue to strike at settlements in many regions of the neighboring country and do not stop trying to capture them. The Ukrainian army and territorial defense detachments are putting up stubborn resistance and claiming significant losses of Russians among personnel and military equipment. Under the conditions of hostilities, the statements of representatives of the armed forces of both sides of the conflict cannot be verified from independent sources. Western countries and international organizations are tightening sanctions against Russia. DW continues to monitor developments on Sunday, March 13 (Moscow time).
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The Russian military launched airstrikes on Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk region, the Svyatogorsk Lavra was damaged, and refugees in the monastery were injured. This is reported Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian News Agency reports. As a result of a bomb explosion near the monastery, the premises of the Lavra were damaged by the blast wave, in which the brethren of the monastery lived and 520 refugees took refuge, 200 of whom were children.
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In the city of Irpen, Kiev region, a correspondent of The New York Times was shot dead. Another journalist was wounded. This was announced in his Telegram channel The Insider with a link to information Head of the Main Police Department of the Kiev Region Andrey Nebitov. According to his information, the victim is US citizen Brent Renault. Commenting on this message, The New York Times expressed condolences, stating that Renaud had worked with the editorial office for a long time in the past, but at the moment did not perform work for the newspaper in Ukraine.
Pope Francis: In the name of God, stop this carnage
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Pope Francis (file photo)
Pope Francis repeated his call to end the war in Ukraine. “In the name of the Lord I ask you: stop this massacre!” he said in an address to 25,000 worshipers in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. In the past few days, Ukrainian Mariupol has become “a martyr city in this terrible war,” he said. No strategic considerations can justify “barbarism, the killing of children, innocent and defenseless civilians,” Francis said. Weapons must be laid down “before cities become cemeteries,” he said. The Pope thanked the countries and volunteers who help refugees from Ukraine.
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Great Britain will explore the possibility of using real estate belonging to persons under restrictions in London for humanitarian purposes. This was stated by the Minister of Housing Michael Gove. “I want to explore an option that would allow us to use the homes and properties of sanctioned individuals – for the period they are under sanctions – for humanitarian and other purposes,” Gove said, answering a question about whether the homes of oligarchs who have been targeted can be used. restrictive lists of London to accommodate Ukrainian refugees.
“There is a rather high legal barrier that needs to be overcome, and we are not talking about permanent confiscation, but we are saying: “You are under sanctions, you support (Russian President Vladimir. – Ed) Putin, this house is located here (in the country. – Ed), you may not use it or profit from it, and if we can use it to help others, let’s do it.”
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Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that a meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and the head of the Russian state, Vladimir Putin, could take place in the foreseeable future. “It will take some time, but we will try to make it as soon as possible,” Podolyak said. In turn, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that no one excludes the possibility of such a meeting, “but you need to understand what to discuss at it and what will be the result.”
Zelensky: Ukrainian authorities took almost 125,000 people to safe territory along humanitarian corridors
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The Ukrainian authorities have already taken almost 125,000 people to a safe territory through humanitarian corridors, the President said. Vladimir Zelensky. “Today the key task is Mariupol,” he said. According to the head of the Ukrainian state, 100 tons of humanitarian cargo are located 80 kilometers from the city. “All diplomatic efforts today are for the cargo to arrive. Let’s see if Moscow is able to hear,” Zelensky added.
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More than 268 people were detained at anti-war actions on March 13 in 24 cities RF, reported the human rights portal “OVD-Info”. Since February 24, the number of detainees, according to him, has reached 14,250.
Siluanov: Almost half of Russia’s gold and foreign exchange reserves blocked due to Western sanctions
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Russia, due to the sanctions of the West, which blocked Russia’s access to part of its gold and foreign exchange reserves, cannot use almost half of them – about $300 billion (275 billion euros) out of about $640 billion (586 billion euros). This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov on the air of the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin”. “About $300 billion of reserves are now in a state in which we cannot use them,” he said, noting that this applies, in particular, to the National Welfare Fund, which is frozen. The minister added that part of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Federation is in Chinese yuan, in connection with which the West is trying to get China to make Beijing restrict Russia’s access to its currency.
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Turkey will not join the sanctions against Russia because of the war in Ukraine. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Antalya. “We believe that sanctions will not solve the problem,” he stressed.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine recommended that citizens immediately leave the Russian Federation
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The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly recommended citizens of Ukraine refrain from any trips to the Russian Federation, and Ukrainians in Russia should immediately leave its territory. The department announced this on Facebook. The Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow and the Ukrainian consular offices in the Russian Federation were forced to stop performing their functions. Citizens of Ukraine were advised, if necessary, to contact the “hot line” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “In connection with the armed aggression and the massive invasion of the armed forces of the Russian Federation into Ukraine” on February 24, diplomatic relations between Kiev and Moscow were severed.
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