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• Ukrainian boxer Yurii Zakhareev wins gold at European boxing championship.

  kyivindependent.com - 21:22 Mar 23, 2022
  

  Zakhareev won a gold medal at the European amateur boxing championship for boxers under 22 years old. In the final match, he defeated U.K. Garan Croft.

  Tags: European

• 4,554 people evacuated from hot spots on March 23.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:28 Mar 23, 2022
  

  According to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, 2,912 people were evacuated from besieged Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia. In total, seven out of nine agreed-upon humanitarian corridors worked out on Wednesday.

• Russia bans Google News service.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:19 Mar 23, 2022
  

  Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, or Roskomnadzor, has banned Google News service, accusing it of spreading “false news” about Russia’s war against Ukraine.

  Tags: Google News Russia

• WSJ: Zelensky asked Biden not to sanction Russian oligarch Abramovich yet to facilitate peace talks.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:09 Mar 23, 2022
  

  As U.S. sanctions against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich were to go out along with the sanctions from the U.K. and EU, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked U.S. President Joe Biden to hold off the measure, the Wall Street Journal reported citing unnamed sources. Zelensky allegedly said that Abramovich could be an […]

  Tags: Russian Abramovich Zelensky

• General Staff: Russian invaders try to undermine Ukraine’s sowing campaign.

  kyivindependent.com - 19:47 Mar 23, 2022
  

• Media: Ukraine’s agriculture minister resigns.

  kyivindependent.com - 19:35 Mar 23, 2022
  

  European Pravda reported that it was not clear what was the reason for Roman Leshchenko’s resignation. He hasn’t yet commented on the matter.

• Russian journalist killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv.

  kyivindependent.com - 19:20 Mar 23, 2022
  

  Oksana Bauila, a reporter with Russia’s The Insider media outlet was on assignment at the site of a Russian shelling in Kyiv’s Podil district when the Russian forces launched another strike at the spot. According to The Insider, two people accompanying Baulina were injured and hospitalized, while one more civilian […]

  Tags: Russian Kyiv

• US: Russian forces commit war crimes in Ukraine.

  kyivindependent.com - 18:58 Mar 23, 2022
  

  “We’ve seen numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks and attacks deliberately targeting civilians, as well as other atrocities,” reads the March 23 statement by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

• Death toll in Russian attack of Kharkiv Oblast administration building grows to 24.

  kyivindependent.com - 18:35 Mar 23, 2022
  

  Rescuers continue to search for bodies under the rubble at the site of the March 1 shelling in central Kharkiv, according to Yevhen Vasylenko, the head of the State Emergency Service in Kharkiv Oblast.

  Tags: Kharkiv Oblast

• Bloomberg: Russia’s Central Bank governor tried to resign over war in Ukraine, Putin rejected.

  kyivindependent.com - 18:15 Mar 23, 2022
  

  Elvira Nabiullina, who has led Russia’s Central Bank for nearly nine years, tried to quit when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. Putin did not accept her resignation.

  Tags: Bloomberg Ukraine Putin Central Bank Russia

• Russian forces steal buses driving to rescue people from Mariupol.

  kyivindependent.com - 00:25 Mar 23, 2022
  

  A convoy of 11 empty buses — driving towards Mariupol to rescue Ukrainians from besieged city — has been seized by Russian forces, the Ukrainian government reports. The Russians have driven the buses, along with the original bus drivers and several emergency services workers, to an undisclosed location.

  Tags: Russian Mariupol

• President’s Office launches humanitarian aid website.

  kyivindependent.com - 00:02 Mar 23, 2022
  

  Ukraine sets up an official portal help.gov.ua for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to affected people, businesses or the government amid Russia’s war against Ukraine. The website helps to find out how to send and whom to address humanitarian aid. The portal also provides contacts of […]

• Russians attack oil refinery that they own.

  kyivindependent.com - 22:28 Mar 22, 2022
  

  A Russian aircraft has fired upon an oil refinery in Lysychasnk, Luhansk Oblast, which is owned by Russian oil company Rosneft. According to Luhasnk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai, firefighters are currently fighting a blaze at the site.

• Peskov: Russia to use nuclear weapons if country’s existence is threatened.

  kyivindependent.com - 21:47 Mar 22, 2022
  

  Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that there’s no other reason Russia could use nuclear weapons, Russian media RIA Novosti reported.

  Tags: Russia

• Prosecutor General: Russian invader kills man, rapes wife in Kyiv Oblast.

  kyivindependent.com - 21:39 Mar 22, 2022
  

  In a village in the Brovarskyi district of Kyiv Oblast, a Russian soldier murdered a man and then, along with another soldier, repeatedly raped his wife, according to Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova. One of the men was identified and is now wanted.

  Tags: Russian Kyiv Oblast

• Zelensky voted most powerful person in Europe.

  kyivindependent.com - 21:25 Mar 22, 2022
  

  President Volodymyr Zelensky has topped the list of Europe’s 28 most powerful people, winning the “Audience Choice” online poll created by Politico media outlet. One contributor to the poll described the Ukrainian leader as a “beacon of hope” striving for “peace, democracy, and decency.”

  Tags: Europe

• More than 1,200 residents evacuated from Mariupol on March 22.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:58 Mar 22, 2022
  

  According to Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, 15 buses evacuated people from the besieged seaport of Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia.

  Tags: Mariupol

• Sumy Oblast official released from Russian captivity.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:53 Mar 22, 2022
  

  Chairman of Okhtyrka District Council Serhiy Kirichko was released after a week of captivity by Russian forces, detained in a basement, according to Servant of the People party chairman Olena Shuliak. The official is reported to have returned immediately back to work.

  Tags: Russian

• Zelensky to join NATO summit on March 24.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:42 Mar 22, 2022
  

  President Volodymyr Zelensky will give a virtual address to the NATO summit participants, according to his spokesman Sergii Nykyforov. Zelensky will speak about the need to stop Russia’s war crimes against civilians by closing the sky above Ukraine or supplying the country with air defenses.

  Tags: Zelensky NATO

• Ukraine’s FM: German restaurant fires Ukrainian employee for criticizing Russia’s war.

  kyivindependent.com - 20:27 Mar 22, 2022
  

  According to Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, owners of Rizzi restaurant in Baden-Baden have fired an employee for posting a video message to Russia, where he said that Russians were killing children and destroying cities in Ukraine. Kuleba said that the restaurant targets the local Russian-speaking community.

  Tags: Ukraine Russia

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