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Ukraine
As a result of the night airstrike, 18 people were killed in Sumy, including children.
A humanitarian corridor should be provided in the city today. The evacuation route will go through Sumy, Holubivka, Lokhvytsia, Lubny, and Poltava. Another humanitarian corridor is to be provided to deliver food and medicines to Sumy, with the following route: Lokhvytsia, Andriyashivka, Romny, Nedryhailiv, Sumy.
The enemy also bombed the city of Okhtyrka. Residential areas have been smashed, and the thermal power plant already destroyed by Russian bombs.
More than 600,000 people were evacuated from Kharkiv by train, and the automobile roads to the exit were overloaded.
Ukrainian air defense shot down an enemy aircraft over Kyiv and another in the city suburbs. According to the Ministry of Defense, during the 11 days of the war, the invaders lost 46 planes and 68 helicopters. The Ukrainian military captured the third Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun complex, Pantsir.
The enemy continues the offensive, but the pace of troops advance has slowed down crucially. The Russian invaders are suffering significant losses. During the 12 days of the war, they lost about 12,000 troops.
Volodymyr Zelensky directed the withdrawal of Ukrainian personnel from all peace operations in the world in order to strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine with professional military and equipment.
The government has adopted a package of solutions to support Ukrainian businesses during the war: in particular, the exemption from the payment of the ERU tax and the postponement of the use of cash registers for sole proprietors.
70% of the territory of Irpin is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Irpin is holding out, it can be compared with the Donetsk airport, and the defenders of the city with the «cyborgs». Every morning at 10 o’clock the residents of the city are evacuated by bus across the Romanovsky bridge. Bucha and Vorzel have been under siege for 7 days, and Hostomel has been held hostage by the Russian troops from the beginning of the war. The terrorists shoot up the streets.
The third round of negotiations did not bring significant breakthroughs. The consultations will continue.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine knocked out the invaders from the Mykolaiv airport.
Ukrainian phone carriers Kyivstar, Vodafone and lifecell have come to an agreement to launch nationwide roaming in Ukraine. In case of missing access to their mobile carrier’s signal, users can switch to other carriers’ networks.
The world
Total isolation of Russia is expanding. Boeing suspends purchasing titanium from Russia. The largest Russian companies are already on the verge of default because of sanctions: March 6, ROSNEFT failed to complete bond liabilities for $2 billion, and March 7, GAZPROM has to pay bonds of $1.3 billion. Analysts of American financial conglomerate Morgan Stanley predict Russia’s default in April.
At the International Court of Justice in The Hague, hearings began on the case of Ukraine against Russia on charges of genocide by the Russian side due to the criminal invasion of Ukraine. Moscow ignores this.
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling will donate £1M ($1.3M) to help Ukrainian children affected by the war.
