Ukraine war: Putin's troops apparently have to retreat in areas near Kyiv

Created: 03/29/2022, 14:02

By: Stephanie Munk

Suburbs of Kyiv are said to have been liberated during the Ukraine war.

Despite the ongoing peace negotiations, Russia announces new attacks.

The news ticker.

• Escalated Ukraine conflict*:

  Before new negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, the Ukrainian side reports new military successes in the war.

• The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj* continues to describe the situation in his country as "very difficult".

• In the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, a government building was probably bombed by Russia, there are dead and injured

  (update from March 29, 1:16 p.m.)

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• This

  news ticker on the military battles in the Ukraine war

  is continuously updated.

  More on the background of the Ukraine crisis* here.

Update from March 29, 1:59 p.m .:

The Russian military wants to massively reduce its attacks around the Ukrainian capital Kiev and the city of Chernihiv.

According to a report by ntv, the Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said that the aim was to de-escalate the conflict.

This is a result of today's negotiations in Istanbul.

War in Ukraine: Russian army bombs city of Mykolayiv - several dead

Update from March 29, 1:16 p.m .:

In the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, the building of the regional administration was allegedly attacked by the Russian army with a rocket

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According to the civil defense, three people were killed and at least 22 others injured on Tuesday.

"They hit my study, the bastards," Gov. Vitaliy Kim told Telegram on Tuesday.

He showed a photo of a huge hole and debris in the administration building and a surveillance camera recording of the alleged missile.

50 to 100 employees could have saved themselves, he said.

According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyj*, at least seven people were killed and 22 injured in the attack in Mykolaiv.

The rubble is still being combed through in search of more victims, Zelenskyj said in a video message in front of the Danish parliament on Tuesday.

Further rocket attacks were reported on objects near Nikopol and Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Most recently, the Ukrainian army reported successful counterattacks.

No independent information was available.

Ukraine War: Fighting around Kyiv continues - Ukraine pushes back Russia

Update from March 29, 12:15 p.m .:

The fighting for the Ukrainian capital Kiev is apparently continuing.

According to Ukrainian President Selenskyj, Russian troops keep the north of the Kiev region under their control.

They would try to rebuild shattered units.

In several areas northwest of Kyiv, however, the Ukrainian army has apparently succeeded in pushing back Russian troops.

This was announced by the British secret service.

According to BILD correspondent Paul

, who reports from Kiev, there have been few hits by Russian rockets in the center of Kiev.

This is due to the fact that missile defense is nowhere in Ukraine as strong as there.

Putin may also shy away from bombing a historic, religiously charged center.

Ukraine war: Danger for Ukrainian nuclear power plants feared - IAEA sends support

Update from March 29, 11:29 a.m .:

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sees a great danger for the Ukrainian nuclear power plants in the Ukraine war and is therefore supporting the country with additional equipment.

IAEA Director Rafael Grossi traveled to Ukraine to discuss appropriate steps with the responsible authorities, the IAEA announced on Tuesday.

"We must take urgent action to ensure that they (the nuclear power plants) can continue to operate safely and securely to reduce the risk of a nuclear accident that could have serious health and environmental impacts both in Ukraine and beyond ", said Grossi according to the announcement.

The intention is to send experts and material.

Most recently, Grossi had repeatedly expressed his deep concern about impending security deficiencies - also because some of the operator teams on site could not be replaced at times due to the controls by Russian commanders.

War in Ukraine: Peace negotiations are ongoing - but Russia announces further attacks

Update from March 29, 10:53 a.m .:

Despite new peace negotiations in the Ukraine war, Russia has announced that it will continue its attacks in Ukraine.

"The Russian armed forces are continuing the military special operation," Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday, according to the Interfax agency.

Since Monday, 68 Ukrainian military facilities have been destroyed by Russian airstrikes, Konashenkov said.

These included anti-aircraft missile systems, two ammunition depots and three fuel depots.

Three drones were also destroyed.

The information cannot be independently verified.

The Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed a missile attack on a fuel depot in the Rivne region of north-western Ukraine on Monday evening.

The fuel was intended for Ukrainian military technology in the suburbs of Kiev, it said.

Ukrainian authorities reported on this rocket attack on Monday evening.

War in Ukraine: Russian army apparently shells government buildings - civilians included

Update from March 29, 10:40 a.m .:

According to local authorities, the Russian army fired on a government building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv during the Ukraine war.

"The regional administration building was hit," Governor Vitaly Kim said in a video message on Facebook on Tuesday.

Half of the building was destroyed in the attack, Kim said.

Most people escaped "miraculously".

Eight civilians and three soldiers are still trapped under the rubble.

A firefighter in the rubble of a government building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv that appeared to have been shelled by the Russian army on March 29.

© Bulent Kilic/afp

Mykolaiv is located in southern Ukraine between Odessa and Cherson.

The city has been under Russian fire for weeks, but attacks on Mykolayiv have recently eased off.

The Ukrainian news portal The Kyiv Independent reports on Twitter about the shelling of the government building and shows a photo of the building, the source is the head of the regional administration, Vitly Kim.

War in Ukraine: Ukrainian army is apparently pushing back Russian troops in front of Selenskyj's hometown

Update from March 29, 10:03 a.m .:

According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army pushed back Russian troops near the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih in the Ukraine war.

"The occupiers are no closer than 40 kilometers from the city," said the head of the city's military administration, Olexander Wilkul, in a video message published on Facebook on Tuesday.

Some Russian units have withdrawn across the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region to neighboring Cherson.

The information could not initially be independently verified.

Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

About 600,000 people lived there before the war.

In the meantime, the Russians had come up to about ten kilometers from the industrial city, according to the Ukrainian side.

War in Ukraine: Ukraine and Russia agree on new escape corridors

Update from March 29, 9:51 a.m .:

According to its own statements, the Ukrainian government has negotiated three escape corridors for the evacuation of civilians with the Russian troops for Tuesday.

From the besieged port of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, it should be possible to drive private cars to Zaporizhia via Berdyansk, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Tuesday.

In addition, 34 buses are traveling from Zaporizhia to Berdyansk on the Azov Sea.

These are intended to take people from Mariupol who have reached Berdyansk, almost 70 kilometers away, on their own.

According to local authorities, more than 100,000 of the once 440,000 residents are still holding out in Mariupol.

Two more corridors were agreed in the Zaporizhia region for the nuclear power plant city of Enerhodar and the city of Melitopol.

Civil defense buses are on the move.

On Monday, Ukraine stopped the evacuations for the time being.

According to the government, the reason for this was indications of “possible provocations” by the Russian army along the defined escape routes.

The corridors are intended to allow residents in the cities attacked by Russian troops to get to safety.

Ukraine regularly accuses Russia of attacking these escape routes, especially around the port city of Mariupol, which has been under siege for weeks.

Ukraine war: Amnesty International reports on "war crimes" in Ukraine

Update from March 29, 7:35 a.m

.: "What is happening in Ukraine is a repetition of what we saw in Syria": With these words, the human rights organization Amnesty International denounces the "war crimes" in Ukraine.

Its secretary-general, Agnes Callamard, told the AFP news agency that Russia was "targeting" civilian facilities and turning escape routes into "death traps."

A badly damaged block of flats in Kharkiv after Russian attacks in Ukraine.

© Aris Messinis/afp

During an on-site visit to Ukraine, Amnesty researchers documented "the same tactics used in Syria and Chechnya," AFP said.

Accordingly, Russia is also using weapons that are prohibited under international law.

The organization criticized the "shameful inaction" of international institutions such as the UN Security Council.

This should better be called the “Insecurity Council”.

According to her, there can be no “neutrality” in dealings with Russia.

Amnesty International presented its annual report on Tuesday (March 29).

Ukraine war: Ukrainian general staff speaks of "disoriented enemy" - that happened at night

First report from March 29

: Kiev - Ukrainian troops have driven Russian forces out of some suburbs of Kiev and Kharkiv.

The city of Irpin in the northwest of the capital was "liberated," said Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky on television on Monday evening.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address that it was "too early to speak of security in this part of our region".

"Fighting continues." The Russians continued to control areas north of Kiev.

Ukraine War News: Zelenskyi side reports military successes

The main checkpoint on the Kyiv-Irpin road was open again on Monday.

He was blocked from the media two weeks ago after the death of a US journalist.

According to local AFP journalists, fighting near Irpin continued on Monday.

Around 20 loud grenade explosions were heard in a forest along the six-kilometer road.

The suburb in the northwest of Kyiv had been the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks.

When the advance of Vladimir Putin*'s troops on Kyiv came to a halt, Irpin was heavily bombed.

Ukraine War News: Zelenskyi-Page warns of snipers in Kyiv suburb

AFP journalists also visited the western suburb of Stoyanka on Monday (March 28), where some residents were returning to their homes after heavy fighting.

However, soldiers warned of Russian snipers.

As Zelenskyy emphasized, the military situation in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv regions, Donbass and southern Ukraine remains "everywhere tense, very difficult".

He added that Russian troops did not "allow a humanitarian corridor" on Monday.

Ukraine War News: Ukrainian General Staff sees “enemy weakened”

In the southern city of Mykolaiv, the situation calmed down after weeks of heavy shelling.

"The enemy is weakened, disoriented, most of them no longer have any logistical support and are cut off from most of the troops," the Ukrainian general staff said on Tuesday night.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, AFP journalists found only a few people living in basements in the heavily damaged Saltivka district on the north-eastern outskirts of the city.

In the suburb of Mala Rogan, after the recapture by Ukrainian troops, journalists saw the bodies of two Russian soldiers and destroyed Russian tanks.