Bei the evacuation of a village east of Kyiv According to the Ukrainian military intelligence service, seven residents were killed. The villagers would have Peremoha wanted to leave when there was a shelling, the secret service said. Accordingly, children are also among the victims.
The attack on the “green” corridor from the village of Peremoga, which had been agreed between the warring factions, happened on Friday. Ukraine blamed Russian troops for it. This information could not be independently verified.
According to the President of Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression Wolodymyr Selenskyj around 1300 Ukrainian soldiers. On the Russian side, “about 12,000 men” were killed in the same period, Zelenskyj said at a press conference in Kyiv on Saturday. This is a “ratio of one to ten, but it doesn’t make me happy,” the president said.
Ukrainian soldiers at the front in Mykolaiv in the south of the country
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On March 2, Russia stated that around 500 Russian soldiers had been killed so far. Since then, no further figures have been announced by the Russian side. The United States had estimated the number of Russian soldiers killed at around 2,000 to 4,000 on Tuesday. The information could not be verified.
“It’s going to be a horribly costly battle”
According to a military researcher at the London think tank Chatham House, the Russian large-scale attack on the capital therefore only a matter of hours or days. The Russian troops, who were stuck for days in a column more than 60 kilometers long in front of Kyiv, have now regrouped, said Mathieu Boulègue. “It will be a very long battle of attrition,” said Boulègue. “It will be a terrifyingly costly battle and a siege rarely seen in modern history.”
Current military situation in Ukraine
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According to the British Ministry of Defence, the majority of the Russian ground forces are only about 25 kilometers from the center of Kiev. The new strategy is likely to aid a Russian attempt to encircle the Ukrainian capital, sources said. It could also be a Russian attempt to reduce its own vulnerability to Ukrainian counterattacks. These would have already taken a heavy toll on the Russians.
US defense circles in Washington also reported that the troops had advanced from the northeast to within 20 to 30 kilometers of Kiev’s center. Newly acquired satellite images also show that Russian military units are actively firing at residential areas.
The satellite image of the US company Maxar Technologies shows destroyed residential buildings and fires in Moschun near Kyiv
What: AP
The US-based company Maxar Technologies reports that a number of houses and buildings have caught fire. There is a lot of damage in the city Musk visible, which lies northwest of Kyiv. Muzzle flashes, smoke, impacts and burning houses could be seen early on Saturday morning. The information cannot be independently verified.
People trapped in Mariupol
Next to Kyiv the Russian arms intensified their attacks Mariupol. The pro-Russian separatists, supported by Russian troops, continue their advance in the besieged Ukrainian port city. The enemy has captured eastern outskirts, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday. The Russian Ministry of Defense had previously reported that several parts of the city had been taken.
According to the mayor’s office, Mariupol is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe due to the ongoing siege by Russian troops. The dead in the port city would not even be buried, it said in a statement on Friday. The mayor’s office called on Russian troops to stop the siege.
Officials say around 1,590 people have been killed since the siege began, which has been going on for 12 days. The city was cut off from the supply of food and medicine. According to Médecins Sans Frontières, residents have already died due to a lack of medication.
Russian Army tanks move through a street on the outskirts of Mariupol
Quelle: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/dpa
Another attempt to evacuate civilians failed on Saturday. 50 buses could not leave because of shelling, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, according to the Interfax news agency. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the column was held at a checkpoint for five hours. Russia, on the other hand, accused Ukrainian “nationalists”. That couldn’t be checked.
Another Russian general has been killed
According to a Ukrainian major general, another Russian general was killed in fighting for the city on Saturday. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, said Russian Major General Andrei Kolesnikov was killed in the fighting. According to Ukrainian data, he is the third Russian general to die in this war.
Kolesnikov’s death has not been confirmed by the Russian military, which is keeping information about his casualties under wraps. However, previously unofficial Russian sources had reported the death of a Russian general.
The death of Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding general of Russia’s 7th Airborne Division, was previously confirmed by his colleague and the officers’ association in southern Russia. The death of another general, Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, has not been confirmed by any Russian source.
Missile attacks in western Ukraine
According to information from Kyiv, the Russian air force also attacked targets in western Ukraine. At least six long-range Tupolev Tu-95 bombers would have air-to-surface missiles against targets in Luzk and Iwano-Frankiwsk deployed. The Russian military reported shelling of military targets near the two locations on Friday.
Volunteers evacuate an old woman from Irpin near Kyiv
Source: AP / Efrem Lukatsky
Air raid sirens could also be heard in many Ukrainian cities early on Saturday morning. As several Ukrainian local media reports, people are not only in the capital Kyiv but also in Lvivin Odessa, Kharkiv, Circassian and in the region Sumy in the north-east of the country have been asked to look for shelters.
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According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops are also to set up a cancer clinic in the southern Ukrainian city Mykolajiw have shot at. Hundreds of patients were in the hospital at the time of the attack, chief physician Maxim Besnosenko said. Nobody had been killed. The building was damaged by the shelling. windows shattered. “Scumbags, they won’t let us sleep,” wrote the governor of the Mykolaiv region, Vitaly Kim, on Telegram on Saturday night.
The current number of refugees from Ukraine
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According to estimates by the UN refugee agency UNHCR, around 15 million people must be expected to be displaced. According to the UNHCR, it has not adjusted its original forecast of four million refugees for the time being, but is monitoring the situation closely. According to the United Nations, more than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on February 24.
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