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These are the important thing developments because the battle enters its 753rd day.
That is the state of affairs as of Sunday, March 17, 2024.
preventing
- One individual was killed and one other injured in the neighborhood of Velikopisarivska in Ukraine's Sumy area, bordering Russia, in keeping with the area's army administration.
- Sumy officers mentioned the assault was one in every of 60 reported shelling incidents of border areas and settlements, through which buildings together with a hospital, kindergarten, library and a gasoline pipeline had been broken.
- Earlier on Sunday, a Russian missile assault on the Black Sea port metropolis of Mykolaiv killed one individual and wounded a minimum of eight, Ukrainian officers mentioned, following an in a single day assault on the port metropolis of Odessa.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned his armed forces in Ukraine “are tearing them aside – the enemy – proper now” after Russia claimed to have captured cities and villages in jap Ukraine.
- Ukrainian shelling within the southern Russian metropolis of Belgorod killed two folks and wounded eleven others, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.
- Gladkov mentioned the Ukrainian drone hit a automobile within the village of Glotovo, about 2 km (1.25 mi) from the Ukrainian border, injuring 5 folks.
- The assault on Belgorod was one in every of a number of days of Ukrainian assaults that Moscow described as election sabotage.
- A Ukrainian drone strike induced a hearth at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday, burning for hours earlier than it was introduced underneath management.
politics and diplomacy
- President Putin has claimed victory in Russia after preliminary election outcomes confirmed he’s headed for an additional six-year time period with virtually 87 % of the vote.
- Responding to the outcomes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky known as Putin a “dictator”, “sick of energy” and “doing all the things he can to rule without end”.
- “Apparently I wrote Navalny's title on the poll,” Yulia Navalny, the widow of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian jail colony final month, mentioned after voting on the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
- Rights group Amnesty Worldwide has condemned Russia's efforts to “change the ethnic composition” of Crimea by suppressing Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities. Amnesty mentioned, “These insurance policies look like a blueprint for Russia's intentions on different territories occupied by Ukraine.” Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.