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Air raid alerts go off in several major cities and oblasts.

kyivindependent.com - 01:35 Mar 16, 2022

Sirens were activated in Cherkasy, Dnipro, Lviv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, and Khmelnytskyi Oblasts, as well as in the cities of Kyiv, Izyum, Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Nikopol, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Izmail, Odesa, Poltava, and the Kryve Ozero area. CNN reports that according to their team on the ground, loud explosions […]
Blinken: There will be an independent Ukraine “a lot longer than there’s going to be a Vladimir Putin.”

kyivindependent.com - 00:12 Mar 16, 2022

During an interview on CNN on March 15, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said that “one way or the other, Ukraine will be there and at some point Putin won’t.”

Tags: Ukraine
UN: Every minute, 55 Ukrainian children become refugees.

kyivindependent.com - 23:25 Mar 15, 2022

“That is, a Ukrainian child has become a refugee almost every single second since the start of the war,” UNICEF wrote in a press release. In other words, on average 75,000 children have become refugees everyday since Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine began on Feb. 24.

Tags: Ukrainian
20 days of Russia’s war in Ukraine in photos

kyivindependent.com - 21:49 Mar 15, 2022

It is widely believed that Russian leadership expected its all-out invasion of Ukraine to succeed within days. Twenty days later, Ukraine still stands, and Russia has no major victories to claim. It seized only one large city and regional center, Kherson in southern Ukraine. To force Ukraine to surrender, Russia […]

Tags: Ukraine Russia
Orban: Hungary won’t support Ukraine with weapons, stays out of war.

kyivindependent.com - 21:35 Mar 15, 2022

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, a longtime Putin supporter, said that the country “must stay out of this war” during the rally of his supporters.
PACE expels Russia from Council of Europe, calls to provide Ukraine with air defense.

kyivindependent.com - 21:30 Mar 15, 2022

Hours before the vote, Russia said it moved to stop its membership. The Council of Europe will keep supporting Russian non-governmental organizations opposing the country’s dictatorship regime.

Tags: Europe Russia
Russians kidnap activist who organized anti-Russian protest in occupied Berdyansk.

kyivindependent.com - 20:48 Mar 15, 2022

Vitaly Shevchenko, director of a local travel agency, was captured at a local cafe in Berdyansk after the protest, eyewitnesses told local media. The occupiers also detained several other participants of the rally.

Tags: Berdyansk
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny predicts Russia’s collapse due to war.

kyivindependent.com - 20:10 Mar 15, 2022

During his court hearing, the politician said that the invasion of Ukraine was planned by a “group of crazy old men.” Navalny, who faces up to 13 years in prison, said that he’d rather be “a free man” in prison than “Putin’s servant.”
EU imposes fourth package of sanctions, including on 15 Russian individuals.

kyivindependent.com - 20:06 Mar 15, 2022

New sanctions include freezing the assets and imposing a travel ban on oligarchs Roman Abramovich, German Khan, steel tycoon Viktor Rashnikov, the head of state-controlled TV Channel One Konstantin Ernst, and propagandist Dmitry Kulikov.
Biden signs bill providing $13.6 billion to Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 19:25 Mar 15, 2022

The package includes emergency military and humanitarian assistance.
Fox News reporter injured while covering the war in Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 00:59 Mar 15, 2022

Fox News reports that its correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured near Kyiv on March 14, although the network is awaiting updates on his condition. He has been hospitalized.

Tags: Fox News
21,500 new Airbnb hosts offer homes to Ukrainians.

kyivindependent.com - 00:50 Mar 15, 2022

As of March 14, an estimated 14,000 listings are located in Europe, while 4,000 are in the U.S. Airbnb has also reportedly dedicated $37.6 million to support Ukrainians.

Tags: Airbnb Ukrainians
Over 40,000 Syrians have registered to fight for Russia against Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 00:39 Mar 15, 2022

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a non-governmental group, reported that more than 40,000 Syrian fighters have registered to go to Ukraine to fight, following Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s call for foreign “volunteers” to join Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. No Syrian fighters have left the country as of March […]

Tags: Ukraine Russia
CNN: Russia requests ready-to-eat meals from China to feed troops.

kyivindependent.com - 00:06 Mar 15, 2022

As of March 14, it is still unclear whether China intends to provide Russia with any assistance. According to CNN, this move “raises questions about the fundamental readiness of the Russian military.”

Tags: China Russia
Romania identifies Orlan-10 drone in its airspace.

kyivindependent.com - 00:00 Mar 15, 2022

Days after a Russian drone crashed in Croatia, Romania has reported that a Russian Orlan-10 aerial drone was spotted in its airspace. An investigation is underway to determine the origins and the operator of the drone.

Tags: Romania
Retired US Army General believes Russia will exhaust ability to fight within ten days.

kyivindependent.com - 23:39 Mar 14, 2022

Ben Hodges, former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, told CBS News that Russia is running out of time, ammunition and manpower as a “quick operation” turned into a war of attrition.

Tags: Russia
China insists it’s ‘not a party’ in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 23:15 Mar 14, 2022

Despite previous news reports suggesting China was preparing to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi insisted that his country was “not a party” to the war during a phone call with Spanish counterpart José Manuel Albares, according to Chinese state press agency Xinhua.

Tags: China Ukraine Russia
UN: Civilian casualties reach 1,761 since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24.

kyivindependent.com - 22:54 Mar 14, 2022

The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said that as of midnight on March 13, there were 636 killed and 1,125 injured civilians. Most of the recorded casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems.

Tags: Ukraine
Kidnapped mayor of Melitopol taken to Luhansk.

kyivindependent.com - 22:35 Mar 14, 2022

Kidnapped mayor of Melitopol taken to Luhansk. According to the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Russian forces took abducted mayor Ivan Fedorov to Russian-occupied Luhansk, where he is being accused of “terrorism.”

Tags: Luhansk Melitopol Kidnapped
EU revokes Russian airlines’ licenses.

kyivindependent.com - 22:22 Mar 14, 2022

EU revokes Russian airlines’ licenses. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended the license of dozens of Russian airlines. European countrie swill no longer be able provide technical assistance to these flights, and Russian aviation products and parts are no longer certified. The move affects major Russian airlines such […]

Tags: Russian

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