113 days have passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Russia’s military continues to focus its efforts on Lugansk, with Serhai Haidai, the region’s governor, saying “fierce fighting” is taking place in every house in the city of Severodonetsk.
The morning of this 113th day of war is marked by the visit to Ukraine of French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The European leaders traveled to Irpin, a city where the Russians are said to have committed war crimes. Later, they will meet with Zelensky in kyiv to convey a message of “unity” and “support” to the Ukrainian people.
Find out in more detail what has happened so far in this article or on our live blog here.
Macron, Scholz and Draghi are already in kyiv to send “a message of unity” to the Ukrainian people
- On his first visit to Ukraine since the beginning of the war, Macron, Scholz and Draghi want to convey a message “of unity and support” to the Ukrainians. Air raid sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital as the three leaders arrived.
- The president of Romania is also in Ukraine. Klaus Iohannis said he was “speechless” in describing the “unimaginable human tragedy” and “horrible destruction” he saw in Irpin.
- Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and Putin ally, wrote on Twitter that the visit of Macron, Draghi and Scholz to kyiv “will not bring Ukraine closer to peace.”
- Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-imposed military-civilian administration in the occupied Kherson region, announced that children born in that city since the beginning of the war “will automatically receive Russian citizenship.”
- four people died and six were injured after a Russian airstrike in the city of Sumy, in northern Ukraine.
- Ukraine estimated the number of Russian soldiers killed in combat as part of the war that broke out on February 24 at about 32,950.
- Russia will have announced, according to the state press, that a New humanitarian corridor could be open this Thursday so that people can be evacuated from the Azot chemical plant.
- Some 10,000 civilians remain in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk, where fighting has raged for weeks, the Lugansk regional governor said.
- You NATO defense ministers met this Thursday morning in Brussels to discuss strengthening the forces and how to get more weapons into Ukraine to prevent Russia from planning further aggression against the country.
- Washington will send military aid worth one billion dollars (about 962 million euros) to Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his “thanks” to the United States.
- Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, two Americans helping the Ukrainian army, were captured by Russian troops in a “fierce” battle in Kharkiv.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said that relations between the United States and Russia are at “degree zero”. “There is no Russian-American dialogue,” the official said.
Source: Observadora
