28th Day of Fierce Fighting for Ukraine

Highlights from the fronts of the war.

Day 28 of the battle for Ukraine. Russian forces have taken control of Bucha and Gostomel near Kyiv. The AFU claim to have cut them off from supplies. To the south, Russian forces are trying to bypass Mykolaiv to seize Odessa. Fighting is underway for Mariupol.

Charter97.org is broadcasting online the 28th day of the war. You can see the developments in Ukraine on March 22 in our previous online broadcast.

Special broadcast by Ukraine 24 TV channel

00:00 Russian sailors were captured by Ukrainians, they can be exchanged for servicemen from the Zmiinyi Island. The Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk stated this. “And I hope we pick them up soon. But there are 92 prisoners among them if I’m not mistaken,” Vereshchuk said.

23:47 The current situation in the Kyiv region on March 23.

23:41 The last major global auto concern stopped the work of its plant in Moscow. Renault has remained the only major global carmaker that had a working production facility in Russia.

23:38 Today, 4,500 people have been evacuated through humanitarian corridors. The Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported it. Nearly 3,000 people travelled by personal transport from Zaporizhzhia, and fifty people were evacuated from Huliaipole to Zaporizhzhia. There are almost a thousand Ukrainians in the Kyiv region and 700 in Luhansk.

23:35 During the cleansing of the village of M., subdivisions of the Zaporizhzhia Territorial Defence captured 2 servicemen of the 503rd Motorized Battalion of the North Caucasian military district of Russia. The occupiers, Dagestanis by origin, hid from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the basement.

23:32 The active phase of Russia's war against Ukraine should end pretty quickly. Professor of history, director of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute at Harvard University Serhii Plokhy argues this forecast with the exhaustion of the Russian army, lack of munition and other things necessary for combat.

23:27 The Ukrainian military showed how they hunt the enemy.

23:16 Ukraine informed the IAEA that firefighters are putting out forest fires near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. A slight increase in the concentration of cesium in the air was recorded in Kyiv and at two nuclear power plants, but this does not influence serious background radiation seriously, the report says.

23:01 Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leshchenko has resigned. The reasons are still unknown. After voting in the Verkhovna Rada for the resignation, the duties of the minister will be transferred to his first deputy Taras Visotski.

22:58 Permanent Representative of Turkey to the UN Feridun Sinirlioglu accused Russia of gross violation of international law. The full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine must be stopped immediately.

22:48 Near Avdiivka, a Ukrainian sniper eliminated Girkin's father-in-law. Sergei Sidorenko, call sign "Sytyi" (Full-Bellied).

22:35 The head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, tried to resign voluntarily after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but was faced with the refusal of President Vladimir Putin.

22:18 Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas visited Kyiv today. He met with Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and expressed support for Ukraine in the fight against the Russian aggression.

22:11 The Azov Batallion, which defends Mariupol in the Donetsk region from the invasion of Russian troops, captured a Chechen and published a video commentary of the prisoner.

22:00 This view has the fence of the villa of Putin's daughter in the French Biarritz.

21:54 "No other documents, permits, letters from ministries, administrations, etc. are needed for the import of humanitarian aid," said Deputy Infrastructure Minister Mustafa Nayyem. "So, in short, now any goods that are not prohibited for import are recognized as humanitarian aid, anyone can import the goods in any quantity,"

21:48 The #ReCreateUA open competition is starting. The competition calls on architects, illustrators, designers and artists from all over the world to imagine what a rebuilt and renovated Ukraine will be like after the war. The purpose of the competition is to activate the global creative community to help Ukrainians imagine what destroyed houses may look like in the future, when they are restored or rebuilt.

21:42 American writer Stephen King has officially suspended cooperation on all new contracts in Russia. The writer's agent notified the AST publishing house, which is engaged in the publication of the books in the Russian Federation.

21:33 Sergey Bolvinov, the Head of the Investigative Department of the General Directorate of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, tells how the police are working even during the war. Yesterday, the malefactors were sent to court. They entered the apartment of an old man in January, tied him up, threatened him with a knife and took all his money.

21:17 The largest pharmaceutical company Sanofi stops supplies to Russia that are not related to vital medicines and vaccines. The company produces drugs such as No-Shpa, Magne B6, Festal and others.

21:08 EU ambassadors approved the provision of € 500 million to Ukraine for military assistance. Radio Svaboda journalist Rikard Jozwiak reported this.

20:57 Sumy partisans took from the Russian military ammunition and other trophies.

20:50 In Ukraine, with the help of artificial intelligence, they are looking for the pages of the dead occupiers in social media to tell their fate to their relatives. Such an initiative was launched in the Ministry of Digital Transformation. "We are using artificial intelligence to search on social media for accounts of dead Russian soldiers to inform their friends and relatives about their deaths, and to dispel the myth of a 'special operation' where 'there are no conscripts' and 'no one dies'," said the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov.

20:41 According to Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, Sweden will provide Ukraine with an additional 5000 anti-tank weapons to combat the Russian invasion.

20:30 The transport ministers of Estonia, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have called for a ban on road transport of goods to/from Russia and Belarus and a restriction on rights to enter EU ports of ships from these countries.

20:27 Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Drapeko proposed to replace Western films in Russian with Chinese, Indian, Kazakh and Uzbek ones.

20:15 The General Staff of the APU issued operational information on the Russian invasion as of 18.00.

20:08 According to SkyNews, Boris Johnson said that Putin has "already crossed the threshold of barbarism". Also, the British Prime Minister noted that the West should not hesitate to go further in strengthening sanctions and providing further defensive military aid to Ukraine, in the face of increased aggression by the Kremlin.

20:04 Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Galina Karelova at the meeting: almost 96 thousand Russian employees were sent to unpaid furlough due to the withdrawal of Western companies. Most of such employees are in the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara and Kaluga regions. According to her, 36,765 organisations, with 8.4 million Russian employees, have announced changes in the working regime.

19:58 Vitali Klitschko reported about the shelling of the parking lot of the shopping centre in Podolsk district. It is reported that one person died, two injured are in a hospital now.

19:53 Belarusian and Russian swimmers are suspended from competitions on behalf of the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

19:39 Greenpeace activists held a protest in the Baltic Sea, urging the EU to abandon Russian energy.

19:22 Western lessors demanded the return of more than 500 aircraft worth $20 billion. "More than 500 foreign-made planes have already received requests. We are now deciding with the government about their redemption. I will just tell you the volume of redemption – it is $20 billion at residual value, if we will be able to buy back what we have underpaid. That's a lot of money," said Vitaly Savelyev, the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

19:09 The Government of Ukraine adopted a resolution on providing the employer with compensation for labour costs for the employment of internally displaced persons as a result of hostilities during martial law in Ukraine.

19:02 Two more enemy aircraft were shot down in the Kharkiv region.

18:53 Saboteurs were detained at the checkpoint. The couple admitted that they had been recruited by the FSB, and there were audio recordings addressed from Crimea on their mobile phones. This directly testify to their involvement with the Russian special services.

18:45 Syria fails the plan to attract militants to the war in Ukraine on the side of the Russian Federation, reports the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

18:37 In the Lithuanian Parliament, it was proposed to equate the "Z" sign and the colours of the St. George ribbon with Nazi symbols. It is proposed to impose fines ranging from 300 to 500 euros for the distribution of such symbols, as well as use at mass events and displaying. Lithuania is the second country to have the legislative proposal for banning the symbol used by the Russian military in the war with Ukraine. Earlier the Czech Republic took the same initiative.

18:29 The Ukrainian pilot with the call sign Juice told on the air CNN how the Air Force manages to beat Putin's vultures.

18:16 The defender of Ukraine addressed the Belarusian military.

18:03 Mariupol City Council announced the destruction of the Arkhip Kuindzhi Art Museum. Kuindzhi's works were not in the museum during the shelling, but there were paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky, Mykola Hlushchenko, Tetyana Yablonska, Mikhailo Deregus and others. The fate of the paintings is currently unknown. The museum's collection consisted of about two thousand exhibits: paintings, objects of decorative and applied art, graphics and sculptures.

17:54 According to Sergei Aksyonov, in Crimea, they want to nationalize [bereave] hotels belonging to Ukrainian owners who supported the regime in Kyiv.

17:47 The AFU captured one of the most powerful stations of electronic warfare of the Russian Armed Forces. Krasukha-4 is capable of detecting and blocking various radars at a distance of up to 300 km.

17:32 The occupiers tried to distribute their humanitarian aid, no one took it in Chernobaievka, no one took it. They left it and they drove away. The locals came and burned it.

17:21 The German government will provide Ukraine with another 1,700 units of Strela anti-aircraft missile system.

17:13 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced plans to send equipment to Ukraine to protect against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. This issue will be resolved during the Alliance's summit to be held tomorrow, 24 March.

17:04 Two more saboteurs were detained at the Holosiiv checkpoint.

16:55 Russian Colonel Nikolai Ovcharenko was killed in the Kharkiv region by The Armed Forces of Ukraine.

16:48 Russia destroyed the Arkhip Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol. The original paintings of Aivazovsky, Glushchenko, Yablonska, Deregus were kept there.

16:39 Ukrainians are calling Belarusian military:

— Serhey, we know all about you, about each fighter in your troop.

"I understand. We, to be honest, are scared here as well, half of the guys in my troop have relatives in Ukraine.

— If you come here, you'll just die. We are waiting for you with Bayraktars.

— F**k, we're all in deep a*s! We think the entire troop will refuse, as soon as we come. But where to go? How? It will be better if you will k**l our cockroach.

16:34 This is what the hospital in Zaporizhzhia looks like, where people rescued from Mariupol are brought.

Physicians prepared for attacks of the "Russian world" in advance.

16:31 Finland will not issue a licence for the nuclear power plant that Rosatom is constructing.

16:27 Video compilation of the work of Bayraktars in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

16:18 Russian invaders hung a red flag in Energodar. This flag was burned.

16:16 There is black smoke over the Russian embassy in Poland again. Today it became known that more than 40 Russian diplomats are leaving Poland.

16:14 A 7-year-old Ukrainian girl bought a bulletproof vest for the soldiers on her own money.

She gave the volunteers all her savings, but it was not enough. Then the little Ukrainian girl decided to earn all the rest by selling flowers.

16:10 Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland call to close roads for trucks from Russia and Belarus.

16:06 In the Sumy region, young Ukrainians captured a Russian APC.

15:55 Business Insider: Ukraine destroyed 10% of Russia's tanks. Does a weapon like that even make sense?

The closer tanks get to cities, the more vulnerable they become to Ukrainian anti-tank missiles.

15:46 Ukrainian intelligence: Russian oligarchs are suffering from sanctions and want to stop Putin. Representatives of the Russian big business are looking for ways of influence on the dictator or on his close environment from a power block.

15:43 Belarusian military plan to surrender if they are sent to the territory of Ukraine to participate in hostilities.

Volodymyr Fitio, the Press Officer of the Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this on the air of UA:Razom, answering a question about the deployment of military equipment to the Ukrainian border in Belarus and the readiness of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to meet the enemy there.

"We all see that the Ukrainian Armed forces are ready for any course of events, and the enemy in the territory of Ukraine simply has nothing to do. The Belarusian military is well aware of this. They are trying to contact our authorities and they will warn that in case of attacks they will immediately surrender," said Fitio.

15:36 Ukrainian flags in support of the brotherly people appeared in different districts of Minsk.

15:34 The Foreign Ministry of Belarus has decided to close the Consulate General of Ukraine in Brest. The Ukrainian Embassy will continue working in Belarus in the 1+4 format, it means the Ambassador and four employees.

15:30 Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksi Arestovich reported about 105 destroyed enemy aircraft, including 6 within the last 24 hours.

He told about it at a briefing concerning data on the situation concerning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

15:25 A Belarus tractor tows a Russian vehicle with the letter "Z".

15:10 The AFU fighter with the trophy Tor anti-aircraft missile.

15:09 According to Bloomberg, Anatoly Chubais resigned as Putin's special representative for sustainable development and left Russia.

15:01 A captured Russian radio scout tells how he was fooled by Kremlin propaganda.

15:00 Russians fired five missiles from the Black Sea towards Odesa. None of them hit the target.

14:52 Nestlé suspends KitKat and Nesquik brands in Russia.

14:48 Two more Russian aircraft have been shot down this morning.

14:42 Famous Belarusian bard Siarzhuk Sokalau-Voiush, the author of "My Belarus" and the Belarusian text to Oginski Polynesia "Farewell to the Motherland", wrote a song about the heroes of the Kastus Kalinouski Battalion.

14:38 Russian citizens from completely different regions die in the war in Ukraine: Tyva, Dagestan.

14:30 The AFU encircled Butcha, Hostomel and Irpin. According to the Ukrainian side, the Russians are in a pocket.

14:22 Peskov said in an interview with CNN that "the purpose of the special operation is to destroy all of Russia on our borders". That's a very strange fluff.

14:19 Zelensky called for the imposition of an embargo on trade with the Russian Federation in order not to finance the Russian army. The president of Ukraine declared it in the address to the parliament of Japan.

14:13 Ukraine bids farewell to its heroes. There are the burials of the killed air defence officer Viktor Sushkov in the Poltava region. He brought down an enemy rocket with his life. People are taking knees.

14:06 This is a bird's-eye view of besieged Mariupol. The city is almost destroyed.

14:02 The AFU showed a destroyed convoy of Russian occupiers. It was a supply convoy.

13:58 The Government of Ukraine allowed category B drivers to drive category C and C1 vehicles during wartime.

13:47 The situation report of the General Staff as of 13.00 (on Minsk), March 23, 2022.

No active enemy actions were detected in the Volhynia direction. Partially confirmed the return of some Belarusian units to their points of permanent deployment.

In the Slobozhanske direction, the divisions of occupiers are concentrating efforts on restoration of losses and blocking of the cities of Kharkiv and Sumy.

As a result of the fighting in the Izum region, the Ukrainian defence forces destroyed up to 60 percent of the personnel and military equipment of the occupying units.

Control over Rubizhne, Sievierodonetsk, Popasna, Verkhnotoretske, Marinka and Mariupol is still the target of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk direction. The enemy has no success, it is suffering casualties, trying to increase the grouping by forced mobilisation of the population of the so-called "republics" in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas.

13:46 …The Russian ambassador confirmed receipt of a note from the Polish Foreign Ministry demanding the expulsion of 45 diplomats on charges of espionage. The ambassador said that Russian diplomats must leave Poland at different times, but not 5 days later.

13:43 The European Union approved the agreement with Ukraine, which will make it possible to give Kyiv classified intelligence, including satellite images.

13:40 The occupiers used prohibited phosphorus munitions over the north-western outskirts of Kyiv.

13:35 Also the coordinator of Polish Special Services Stanislaw Zharyn reports about the detention of the citizen of Poland, who worked for the Russian intelligence.

13:30 The man cooked borscht at the Kiev metro station and became the star of the Internet.

13:25 There was a BBC story about how Belarusian volunteers are fighting against Putin's troops on the side of Ukraine.

13:23 Russian Foreign Ministry reports that Moscow and Kyiv made two prisoner exchanges.

13:16 Russia has almost completely turned into a no-fly zone.

13:06 Russian-speaking refugee says RF has turned Mariupol into one mass grave.

12:59 "Fuck, you try to furnish a house like this two children. You'll pay all your life and your kids will pay. And all the stuff is not like ours (stinking cheap goods), but decent, branded... I haven't met the mess anywhere: neither in villages, nor in cities". Russian looters shocked by the standard of living of Ukrainians.

12:56 Ukraine's territorial defence has destroyed a Russian Tiger near Chernihiv.

12:51 Now there will only be yellow paper in Russia.

A plant in the Leningrad Region has managed to "wriggle out " when supplies of chemicals from Europe were cut off. It has begun making paper from unbleached cellulose.

12:46 Belarusian volunteers from Kalinouski Battalion publish photo from Irpen near Kyiv. Our guys are on the front line in the fight against Putin's occupiers.

12:42 Ukraine's richest man, oligarch Rinat Akhmetov told The Wall Street Journal that the Mariupol plants he owned would not operate under Russian control.

12:40 Putin prepares to block Russians from fleeing Crimea. This has been reported by Ukrainian intelligence.

12:34 Russia's ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev has been summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry. This is because Poland's internal security agency (ABW) suspects 45 Russian diplomats of espionage.

12:31 Artificial intelligence will help inform all relatives of dead Russians in Ukraine. Ukraine's Ministry of Digitalization says facial recognition will help find social media profiles. They will compare photos of the corpses of Russians and the photos they posted on their profiles when they were alive.

12:25 A selection of roasted Russian Tigers by activists from InformNapalm.

12:19 Meanwhile, the price of paper in Belarus skyrocketed to 50 rubles.

12:09 Journalist Roman Tsimbalyuk reported that one of the Russian servicemen during the battle in the Kyiv region deliberately ran over his commander with a tank, blaming him for the deaths of his fellow servicemen.

12:02 "If there is no body - no payout". How Russian women are being deceived about payments for husbands killed in Ukraine.

12:00 Bogdan Shkoda, 15, travelled alone from Kyiv to Poland. His parents had to stay in the Ukrainian capital - the disabled father would not have been able to survive the arduous journey.

11:56 Oleksiy Arestovich, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, describes how the AFU again smashed the Russian occupiers in Chornobaivka:

- Tonight, they were attacked for three hours at short intervals. Another batch of Smerch systems, which were hitting Mykolaiv, were silent today. Probably this batch is silent forever.

The ammunition for them was destroyed, it was bright. Thanks to the considerable supply of this very ammunition, the concert was beautifully lit and had lots of fires. There was much less equipment on the airfield than before, but even what was there is heavily damaged. One can fully claim the success of the next, the 9th episode of the Chernobayivka series.

11:54 Ukrainian police in Irpen have begun mopping up the town from enemy hit squads.

11:49 "One shot himself in the leg, the other shot himself in the arm yesterday just to get away from there. Can you imagine what the boys have started to do?" Russian military afraid to continue fighting against Ukraine.

11:45 Russian journalists report Shoigu missing. The Russian defence minister has stopped appearing in public since 11 March. Although he is usually very active in the media.

11:42 Ukrainian paratroopers show trophies as well as destroyed enemy equipment.

11:40 RBC: Moscow pharmacies face shortage of imported antipyretics for children.

11:35 How Kyiv reinforces checkpoints in preparation for new attempts of Russian occupiers to take the capital of Ukraine. General Mykola Zhirnov, head of the Kyiv military administration, tells.

11:34 Photos of destroyed Russian occupiers' equipment.

11:29 Between 8:00am and 10:00am, the Charter97.org website suffered an all-out assault. During this time, its servers received 70 million malicious requests, making it difficult for readers to access the resource.

11:28 Putin has made a special bet on Chernihiv, says Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko:

"The occupiers broke the bridge over the Desna River at night. There is information that the enemy has begun to move heavy equipment there and build pontoon crossings. It is likely that Putin has made a special bet on this city."

11:18 According to unofficial information, 40 Russian diplomats will be expelled from Poland because of spying for Russia. This was reported by the Polish Onet portal.

11:10 The Ukrainian General Staff reports about Russian troop losses. 15600 Russian occupants, according to the AFU, destroyed.

11:05 Kostroma. This is how the 331st "Elite" Airborne Regiment (VDV) now looks like.

10:57 Russian troops are trying to encircle the AFU in the east, advancing from Kharkiv in the north and Mariupol in the south. This has been reported by British intelligence.

10:55 NATO does not rule out the possibility of a collective response to a cyber-attack against a member country of the Alliance.

US presidential national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.

10:49 The AFU reports the elimination of the Russian battalion commander of the 31st Independent Assault Brigade, Major Osokin Alexei.

10:48 United Russia lawmakers have been banned from leaving the country without the permission of the faction's head. If it is necessary to go abroad, a special application is required.

10:44 The Ukrainian General Staff has prepared a video with the main events of yesterday's 27th day of the war.

10:37 A funny fact. Ukraine's civil servants are officially allowed to send a Russian ship in a well-known direction.

10:36 Russia has not achieved any of its goals in Ukraine, Peskov admits

Asked in an interview with CNN about what Putin has achieved in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, he said, "Well, first of all, not yet. He hasn't achieved it yet."

10:29 Ukrainian media report offensive equipment continues to concentrate on the Belarus-Ukraine border.

10:27 Photos of Russian troops shelling Kyiv. Earlier it was reported that Grads hit the Ukrainian capital.

10:24 Editor-in-chief of Censor. Net editor-in-chief Yuriy Butusov showed video of captive Russian soldiers loading dead Russians.

10:17 UK intelligence reports Russian efforts in Ukraine to control the population by manipulating the media, spreading propaganda and installing pro-Kremlin puppet leaders have so far been unsuccessful.

10:11 As of 28 days of Russian aggression in Ukraine, 121 children have been killed and 167 minors have been injured in various ways.

10:04 "Listen, don't take water, cakes and so on from the locals there. We've been warned!" Russian occupiers are afraid of being poisoned.

10:01 Another group of Russian troops failed to reach Kyiv.

9:55 There was fighting all night in Trostenets in the Sumy region. Due to the shelling of the town, one of the enterprises caught fire.

9:50 The Ukrainian military stopped a Russian occupier who seized a school bus and painted it with the Rashist letter Z.

9:39 Near Kyiv, the occupiers hit a food depot. The enemy is deliberately hitting Ukraine's infrastructure.

9:38 US senators are debating a bill to block Russia's $132 billion in gold reserves.

9:29 Russian users won't be able to install Netflix on their mobile devices.

9:25 On February 24, Russia's troops pulled some 150,000 troops to Ukraine's borders, as well as numerous aircraft, artillery, tanks and other military equipment.

However, since the start of the war, the combat effectiveness of the enemy units has fallen below 90%. The occupiers are suffering heavy losses.

9:21 A bird's eye view of Mariupol after missile strikes and bombing by the Russian occupiers.

9:16 Military personnel from completely different parts of Russia die in Ukraine.

9:09 In Chernihiv, Russian troops destroyed the bridge over the Desna River that connected the city with Kyiv. It was this bridge that was used to bring humanitarian aid to the city.

9:08 Japanese manufacturer of digital and home appliances Sharp has suspended deliveries to Russia.

9:04 "A little girl grabs a gun and rushes towards us". Occupier tells how ordinary Ukrainians treat Russian soldiers.

9:01 Chernihiv buries about 40 people a day, said the city's mayor Vladislav Atroshenko.

The city, which is close to the border with Belarus, has no electricity, water, heat and virtually no gas. All infrastructure has been destroyed. Russian occupants have also targeted medical institutions

8:55 Zhanna Agalakova, who worked for Russia's Channel One for more than twenty years, resigned after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. At a press conference in Paris, she told why she had decided to quit TV, called the events in Ukraine a war, and said stories about fighting the Nazis were a lie.

8:50 Another Kremlin propaganda gaffe. A Russian KAMAZ with a "Z" for propagandists has become a Ukrainian military target.

8:44 "Fuck, I''ll come as soon as they kill me". Many occupiers don't believe they can return home. Another interception from Ukrainian security services.

8:39 "Welcome to hell". New video from the AFU.

8:36 Major meteorological data provider EUMETSAT has suspended cooperation with Russia.

8:29 The head of the Odessa military administration, Bratchuk, says the AFU was giving a decent response to the occupiers. He reported the killing of a commander of a brigade of Russian marines.

8:27 Occupier's ammunition destroyed in the Luhansk region.

8:17 One of France's largest banks, Crédit Agricole, suspends its operations in Russia completely.

8:15 Satellite image from Chornobaivka. There are no Russian helicopters there. I wonder if Russian troops will want to deploy anything else there.

8:14 Former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik shelters two Ukrainian refugees in his private home.

8:12 Operational information as of 7 a.m. (Minsk time) March 23 on the Russian invasion

The AFU is holding back the movement of the enemy in the direction of Zaporizhzhia, Popasna and Kurakhovo. Fighters are also making a circuitous defence of Mariupol.

Troops hold the line in Chernihiv and deter the movement of the enemy in the direction of Kyiv.

Defence of Mykolaiv and settlements in the Mykolaiv region continues.

Our defenders hold back the enemy in the directions of Krivoy Rog and Novovorontsovka.

Over the previous day, more than 17 enemy air targets (6 aircraft, 5 UAVs, a helicopter and 5 cruise missiles) have been hit. In addition, Air Force aircraft carried out devastating strikes against concentrations of enemy equipment and manpower.

On the territory of the Russian Federation, covert mobilisation continues.

On the territory of Belarus, railway communication between the Republic of Belarus and Ukraine has been partially disrupted. Information is being verified.

Active movement of Russian and Belarusian military equipment continues on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and its accumulation along the Ukrainian border.

During the aggression in the city of Mariupol in one of the special forces of the enemy less than 10% of the personnel are ready to continue the war, the rest are killed, wounded, sick or demoralised

00:51 How Ukrainian Marines, AFU and territorial defence are fighting the occupiers in the Chernihiv region.

00:38 How Ukrainian women support the military.

00:27 Zelensky will attend the NATO leaders' summit in Brussels on 24 March via video link.

00:14 A 39-year-old major from Penza, Sergey Levkin, has been liquidated in Ukraine.

00:00 What the Belarusians living in cities with missiles flying over them say.