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Rosbalt continues to talk about the events that followed after statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin about the start of a special operation in the Donbass and in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the LPR and DPR. On demand Roskomnadzor media should use data on its progress only from official Russian sources. With information about events that took place March 18can be found here.
07:07. The United States will not participate in hostilities in Ukraine and establish a no-fly zone over the country, since no one needs a conflict between the United States and Russia, the head of the Pentagon said.
07:12. The European Union is considering the possibility of using the frozen assets of the largest Russian entrepreneurs to finance work to restore Ukraine’s infrastructure. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing its own sources.
07:21. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss believes that the sanctions imposed on Russian businessmen will not be lifted in the future, RIA Novosti reports. In particular, she believes that Chelsea owner Abramovich will not be able to return to the UK.
07:25. Serbia currently receives Russian gas almost free of charge. This was stated by the President of the country Aleksandar Vučić in the program “First Theme” on the channel “TV Prva”.
07:29. Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine may take several weeks, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “The process may be delayed, given the number of mutually exclusive positions,” he added.
07:38. The authorities of Germany and the Netherlands, at the request of NATO, will transfer Patriot air defense systems to Slovakia, and in this case Bratislava will transfer its S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the Dutch Ministry of Defense.
07:44. One of the world’s largest oilfield services corporations Schlumberger (Schlumberger) announced that it had decided to stop further investment and implementation of technologies in its activities in the Russian Federation, the company’s press service reports.
07:53. Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, in an interview with the Lidove Novyny newspaper, said that he rejects “the cheap Russophobia that exists today, the sweeping denial of Russian culture and the like,” and refused to return the Russian state award presented to him in 2007 – the Pushkin medal.
08:22. European Commissioner for Crisis Management and Humanitarian Aid Janez Lenarcic warned of the threat of famine in Ukraine. In an interview with Welt am Sonntag, he noted that the humanitarian crisis in the country has already reached a critical point, but the situation could get even worse.
08:47. Oilfield service transnational corporation Halliburton also announced the termination of its activities in Russia and the suspension of further business development in the country against the backdrop of sanctions.
08:57. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern about rising prices in many countries, saying that the current situation in Ukraine is disrupting supply chains and causing fuel, food and transport prices to skyrocket. “We must do everything possible to prevent the hurricane of hunger and the collapse of the global food system,” he said.
09:06. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had lost access to the Sea of Azov.
09:33. Israel will transfer four armored ambulances to Ukraine, according to local media. The cars will be delivered along with 230 tons of humanitarian aid that the Israelis have collected for the people of the country.
09:54. The head of Deutsche Bank, Christian Sewing, opposed the shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline and said that additional sanctions would begin to negatively affect those who accept them, according to Die Welt.
10:12. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov has officially demanded that Chinese drone manufacturer DJI stop helping Russia and turn off all drones that have not been purchased or registered in the country.
10:15. The Russian armed forces have destroyed about 200 unmanned aerial vehicles and more than 1.4 thousand tanks and other armored vehicles since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the country’s Defense Ministry reports. The department said that over the past day, 69 military facilities of Ukraine were hit, including three S-300s and one Buk-M1, 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down in the air. Also, the Ministry of Defense for the first time announced the use of the Kinzhal missile system by the RF Armed Forces. with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles to destroy the underground ammunition depot of Ukrainian troops in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
10:26. More than 23% of Ukrainians have become refugees, according to a report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. According to the organization, almost 6.5 million people fled the war within Ukraine, more than 3.3 million left the country.
10:29 am. NATO will not interfere in the conflict in Ukraine and create a no-fly zone there, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht confirmed in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
11:02. The loss of Ukrainian units in the Luhansk People’s Republic for the day amounted to 40 people, said the official representative of the People’s Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko.
Source: Rosbalt
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