The war in Ukraine. Digest 20

Since the morning of March 11, the Russian military has been shelling major Ukrainian cities. For the first time since the beginning of the full-scale war - explosions were heard in the city of Dnipro - the regional center in the central part of the country. There were three air strikes. The shell was dropped near a kindergarten, an apartment building, and a two-story shoe factory caught fire. At least one person was killed and one person was injured.

The cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, regional centers in the western part of Ukraine, where a lot of refugees had moved to escape air raids, were shelled for the first time. In Lutsk, the Russian occupiers bombed the airport. According to preliminary information, there are no victims, but two boiler houses in the city have stopped working. People have no heating at the moment.

In Ivano-Frankivsk, there were explosions near the airport. Local authorities recommend that people living nearby evacuate.

Enemy shelling continues in Kharkiv region. Since the beginning of the war, almost half a thousand houses have been destroyed. In the morning, the Russians de-energized the nuclear facility in the City of Kharkiv. This is the second bombing of the building where the research department is, it has been damaged.

During his last briefing, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky emotionally addressed Russia.

In total, the damage to Ukraine from Russian invasion has already exceeded 100 billion dollars.

A crime against humanity. One more assault has been added to a long list of illegal actions of the Russian Federation. Russian aircraft has attacked the city of Chernihiv with incendiary bombs prohibited by the international law. This was recorded by the Conflict Intelligence Team investigating the circumstances of military conflicts from open sources. Fearless Ukrainian rescuers demining ammunition have confirmed the use of forbidden incendiary bombs by Russia. In their footage sappers are carefully removing the detonator from the bomb, which fortunately did not explode. OFZAB-500 incendiary bombs are extremely powerful weapons, one of which is enough to blow up half a residential district.
The outright lies of the Russian media. A fragment of the TV programme of one of the Russian channels has been shared on social media. It shows videos from surveillance cameras of Ukrainian cities before the Russian full-scale military invasion. The presenter says that these cities are allegedly intact and undamaged.

In spite of hysteria in the Western media the videos from webcams installed on the streets help evaluate the situation objectively. For example, the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, is quiet. And here is footage from Kharkov - an ordinary day. Another piece is from the city of Sumy, cars are driving on the roads. In general, there is nothing that indicates that the situation is alarming.

The day before, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov also made a knowingly false statement. He stated that there were no mothers or children in the maternity hospital in Mariupol, where the Russian army purposefully fired several air strikes. While saying that Lavrov nervously twisted the microphone wire in his hands.

Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation like we said on March 7 in the Security Council, in the maternity hospital there are no women, no children, no staff at the moment. Azov Battalion together with other radicals have set up a stronghold there.

However, later on Facebook and Twitter removed posts
from the Russian Federation about the destroyed maternity hospital in Mariupol being used as a military base and not functioning at all.