Ukraine war: The situation on Sunday

Created: 03/21/2022, 04:50

By: Daniel Dillmann

The Ukraine war is entering its fourth week.

Fighting also took place at night.

An overview of the situation in the morning.

• Russia* continues its war of aggression on Ukraine*.

  The cities of Mariupol and Kyiv* in particular are still hard fought over.

• The number of victims in the Ukraine war* is increasing.

  Both the Ukrainian army and the troops of Russian President Vladimir Putin* have suffered heavy losses.

• Read here what happened on Sunday night in the Ukraine conflict*.

Frankfurt - The fighting between Russia and Ukraine continued on Sunday night - especially on the well-known front sections around Kyiv and Mariupol.

According to information from the Kyiv Independent, alarm sirens are said to have warned of air raids by the Russian army in numerous cities in the country.

In addition to Kyiv and Mariupol, these include Sumy, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa and others.

Accordingly, all regions of Ukraine were affected.

According to unanimous media information, the port city of Mariupol continued to be hard fought during the night.

Russian troops were able to advance further into the city, but were involved in bloody street fighting by Ukrainian units.

This is reported by both the Moscow Times and the US news portal Newsweek.

Thousands of residents tried to leave the embattled city on the Ukraine coast.

Ukraine War: The Situation in the Morning and What Happened During the Night

So far it has not been clarified whether Russia really used a new supersonic missile for the first time in the Ukraine war.

According to the Russian military, one such missile destroyed a missile arsenal in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Ukraine said it was still investigating what type of missile it was.

More people died in the Ukraine war during the night as well.

So far there are said to have been around 15,000 victims.

According to local authorities, 266 civilians have been killed since Russian troops invaded Ukraine more than three weeks ago as a result of fighting in the city of Kharkiv alone.

Among them are 14 children, said the judicial authorities in the country's second largest city on Saturday evening.

The city, which was besieged by Russian troops and was home to 1.5 million people before the start of the war, continues to be shelled with artillery, the Unian agency reported.

However, the information on the number of victims cannot be checked or verified at all at this point in time.

Tank traps on the streets of Kiev.

The war with Russia is still raging in Ukraine.

© Matthew Hatcher/dpa

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(dil/dpa)