OVERVIEW. Russians install new mayor in Melitopol, Ukrainian honorary title for the first time (posthumously) to a woman | War Ukraine and Russia

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• In almost all Ukrainian regions is in the night from Saturday to Sunday it air raid siren went off, reports The Kyiv Independent. This includes the cities Kiev, Lviv and Kharkiv. In Lviv, according to correspondents, it is the third night in a row that the air raid siren has sounded.

• In Lviv are in the early morning too multiple explosions have been heard as far as Poland. The mayor of Lviv says that a military base have been affected. Ukrainian media previously reported that the city had been hit by multiple missiles. The western city is a refuge for war refugees from all over the country.

• Also a building in the place Yavorivinot far from the Ukrainian-Polish border, was hit by a missile attack† Ukrainian authorities report that the so-called Center for International Peacekeeping and Security has been affected by eight missiles†

In addition, in the cities, among others, sounded Odessa, Rivne, Kramatorsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhya, Sumy and Dnipro the air raid siren sounded, just like in the provinces (oblasts, ed.) Kiev, Rivne, Chernihiv, Ternopil, Dnipro, Cherkasy and Sumy† Upon hearing the alarm, citizens are expected to get to safety in air-raid shelters.

• Russian units tried the southeastern Ukrainian port city, according to the Ukrainian General Staff Mariupol storm again on Saturday night. According to the Ukrainian armed forces, pro-Russian separatists in the eastern suburbs of the city on with the help from Russian troops† The Russian Ministry of Defense has already intake of different districts reported. The information has not been independently verified.

• According to the Ukrainian army, there is also a threat in Shevyerodonetska city of 100,000 inhabitants in the eastern Luhansk region, a new Russian offensive, as in Wuhledar, in neighboring Donetsk region. Before the Russian invasion, both areas were already partly in the hands of pro-Russian separatists.

• In the south of the country, Russia is said to be engaged in an offensive against Kryvy Rih, an industrial city and the birthplace of Ukrainian President Zelensky. Those efforts have so far been fruitless, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.

• In Melitopol would Russian soldiers new mayor installed after Mayor Ivan Fedorov was kidnapped by Russian troops on Friday afternoon. The new mayor would Galina Danilchenko being a former member of the city council. This would appear from a statement on the website of the regional administration in Zaporizhzhya. Ukrainian media, CNN and the BBC report this. Melitopol, in the south of Ukraine, soon fell under Russian control after the Russian invasion.

• Ukrainian President Zelensky has posthumously awarded a woman the title ‘Hero of Ukraine’ for the first time in the country’s history. Sergeant and army doctor Derusova Inna Nikolaevna worked in the city since the Russian invasion of Ukraine Oktyrka in the Sumy region and was killed by Russian artillery fire while ten wounded soldiers tried to rescue† According to the BBC, Zelenski is also wearing the hero title seven other fighters awarded, including five of the sergeant’s comrades.

• According to Zelensky, Ukraine Saturday 13,000 civilians can evacuate through humanitarian corridors, twice as many as the day before. Out Mariupol no one could be evacuated, but at the other corridors in the regions Sumy, Donetsk and Kiev evacuations did take place.

• Ukraine accused Russia of one on Saturday convoy of evacuees shelled but has since had to correct that accusation. The seven peopleincluding one child, who died on Saturday when they tried to leave a village near Kiev, were in not in a humanitarian corridor† This is reported by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, which now states that the evacuees tried to escape on their own and thus not fired upon on an agreed evacuation route became.

• Since the Russian attack on Ukraine began, according to Ukrainian authorities, at least 79 children killed and more than 100 children injured touched.

• In total, it is estimated that At least 2.6 million people have already fled the country, including more than a million children, according to UNICEF. The UN previously spoke of “the fastest growing refugee crisis since WWII”.

• The stock exchange in moscow stays also closed next week, the Russian central bank decided on Saturday. Since February 28, it has no longer been possible to trade shares on that exchange, in order to protect domestic investors against significant losses as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It should become clear next week whether the stock market will reopen after March 18. It’s now for Russians it is possible again to trade rubles, among other thingssomething that was also temporarily banned.

• Russia would fight with Ukraine chemical weapons NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag today. If Russia were to decide to do so, according to Stoltenberg, it would commit “a war crime† Earlier this week, the White House also warned that it could be Russia’s tactic to carry out a chemical attack “under” false flagto be able to perform. In the interview with the German newspaper, Stoltenberg also addressed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putinwhich he invokes”to end this warto withdraw all troops and use diplomacy.”

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