Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: List of key events from day 21

Because the Russia-Ukraine struggle enters its twenty first day, we check out the primary developments.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walks to a hospital to go to docs, nurses and wounded army members in Kyiv, Ukraine [File: AP]

These are the important thing occasions thus far on Wednesday, March 16. Get the newest updates right here.

Combating

• Russia says its forces have taken full management of the southern area of Kherson. Ukraine reported 19 individuals had been killed in an assault on a TV tower in Rivne.
• The Kyiv Unbiased, a Ukrainian information outlet, says air-raid sirens have gone off in a number of main cities, together with Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Lviv.
• Ukraine says Russia’s Main-Common Oleg Mityaev, 46, was killed through the storming of Mariupol.

Peace talks

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia’s calls for had been changing into “extra reasonable” with peace talks to renew later within the day. “Efforts are nonetheless wanted, persistence is required,” he stated in a video handle to the nation. “Any struggle ends with an settlement.”

Diplomacy

• US President Joe Biden will make his first go to to Europe since Russia invaded Ukraine to debate the disaster with NATO allies subsequent week, the White Home says. Zelenskyy says Ukraine might search safety ensures from the West that fall wanting NATO membership – a attainable path to compromise.
• Ukraine’s president additionally thanked the prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia who travelled to Kyiv for talks.

Loss of life toll

• The confirmed civilian toll in Ukraine is 691 individuals killed and 1,143 wounded, the United Nations human rights workplace says, including the true figures had been in all probability “significantly increased”.
• In accordance with Zelenskyy, 97 Ukrainian youngsters have died because the invasion started.

Fleeing

• About three million individuals have fled Ukraine, practically half of them youngsters, in accordance with the UN refugee company. About 1.8 million are actually in Poland and a few 300,000 in Western Europe.
• About 2,000 vehicles have left the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol. Ukraine accused Russia of blocking a convoy attempting to take provides.
• Convoys of greater than 100 buses ferrying civilians have left the besieged northeastern metropolis of Sumy, the Crimson Cross says.

Extra sanctions

• The US has imposed extra sanctions on Russians it accused of human rights violations and slapped new measures on the Belarusian president. Russia retaliated by sanctioning Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others.
• The European Union hit Moscow with new sanctions, together with bans on Russian vitality sector investments, luxurious items exports to Russia, and imports of metal merchandise from Russia.

Economic system

• 9 out of 10 Ukrainians might face poverty and excessive financial vulnerability if the struggle drags on over the subsequent yr, wiping out 20 years of financial good points, the UN Growth Programme says.
• Russia’s sanctions-ravaged authorities is teetering getting ready to its first worldwide debt default because the Bolshevik Revolution, with $117m in curiosity on two dollar-denominated sovereign bonds due on Wednesday.

Cyberwarfare

• Germany’s cybersecurity company BSI has urged customers to not use the anti-virus software program made by Russia’s Kaspersky, warning the agency could possibly be implicated in cyberwarfare.
• The US already banned authorities companies from utilizing the software program in 2017. Kaspersky denies being in league with the Kremlin.

You may learn key moments from Day 20 right here