The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from warring parties Russia, Ukraine and their allies. In particular, information about the losses of the armies involved Ukraine war It cannot be independently verified.
Update from March 31, 9:24 p.m.: Ukraine announced that it had neutralized Russian special forces in the area around the city of Sumy. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense stated that enemy forces attempted to carry out sabotage operations behind Ukrainian defense lines.
Update from March 31, 8:00 p.m.: Russia appears to have bombed other cities in the Ukraine war. Rocket attacks were reported in Lviv and Kherson. At least one man is said to have been killed. This was reported by the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda and refers to information from the Ukrainian authorities.
Zelensky addresses residents after Russian air strikes
Update from March 31, 3:47 p.m.: After the new air strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky encouraged his citizens to continue defending themselves against Russian terrorism. Easter, celebrated by some Ukrainian Christians, is a reminder that the power of the spirit can defeat evil, Zelensky said in a message shared on social media on Sunday.
Most Christians in Ukraine do not celebrate Easter until the beginning of May according to Orthodox customs – not like Western churches. “And true peace may come closer to the whole of Ukraine and all the countries suffering from the war,” Zelensky wrote on X (formerly Twitter) and Telegram. “Not a night or a day goes by without Russian terrorism trying to destroy our lives.”
France intends to supply more weapons to Ukraine
Update from March 30, 11:30 a.m.: France wants to deliver more wheeled tanks and anti-missile missiles to Ukraine, which is under attack from Russia. French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu told La Tribune (Sunday edition) that he is working on a corresponding aid package that includes old but still working equipment from the French army. Four-wheel drive VAB tanks are essential for troop mobility. Ukraine has requested these vehicles – they can help maintain the long front line.
Klitschko warns of Putin's „bloody decision” in Ukraine war
Update from March 30, 6:32 a.m.: Two years after Russian forces withdrew from the area around Kiev, city mayor Vitali Klitschko sees the danger of a renewed attack by attackers on the Ukrainian capital. Klitschko said: “Kiev was a target and will remain a target for Vladimir Putin because the capital is the heart of the country.” The photo is on Sunday. At the same time, he stressed: “We know this, and we are better prepared than we were two years ago to face possible new attacks.” Klitschko said that all scenarios must always be taken into account. “If Putin makes such a decision, it will be a bloody decision.”
Emergency power outages in several regions of Ukraine
Update from March 30, 10:50 p.m.: Following large-scale Russian attacks on energy facilities in Ukraine, state grid operator Ukrainergo temporarily shut down electricity in several regions on Saturday. The energy company DTEK announced an “emergency power outage” in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk in the south and Donetsk in the east of the country. In the regions of Sumy in the northeast of the country and Poltava in the center of the country, regional authorities announced a power outage.
Update from March 30, 6:20 p.m.: After the violent Russian bombing of the city of Krasnohorivka in eastern Ukraine on Saturday evening, the Ukrainian authorities reported the killing of two civilians. According to information shared by Donetsk Region Governor Vadim Velashkin on Telegram on Saturday, a 70-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man died in the attacks.
In his post, Velashkin also called on those remaining in the city to leave the city and seek safety, which may indicate that his administration expects the Russian occupation of the city to approach. Krasnohorivka is located directly on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region, more than half of which is controlled by Russian forces.
British Intelligence: Russia recruits tens of thousands into the army every month
Updated from March 30, 4:50 p.m.: According to British intelligence estimates, 30 thousand people are currently being recruited in Russia every month to participate in the aggressive war in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense in London announced this on Saturday in its periodic report on the Short Message Service
New lines of defense in the Ukrainian war: 10,000 anti-tank barriers around Kiev
Update from March 30, 2:15 p.m.: Ukraine has further strengthened its defensive lines. In the Kyiv region alone there are now approx10,000 anti-tank barriers were erected. The so-called „dragon teeth” are According to Governor Ruslan Kravchenko Part of a comprehensive defensive system of trenches, barricades and shelters. At the end of March, President Zelensky said that the situation on the battlefield had stabilized. However, he did not rule out the possibility of a major Russian attack in late May or June.
Kiev's forces have much less ammunition in the Ukraine war than Russia's
Update from March 30, 12:15 p.m.: Kiev's forces are still suffering from a severe ammunition shortage in the Ukraine war. Now the new Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army has made it clear how huge the difference between Ukraine and Russia is in this regard. „A few days ago, the enemy's ammunition ratio was about six to one,” Oleksandr Sirsky said in an interview with the state news agency. ocrinform.
Russia launches missile and drone attacks again in Ukraine war
Update from March 30, 8:20 a.m.: Number of Russian casualties inThe Ukraine war is controversial. Russia itself does not provide any information about this. But it seems reliable News portal data mediazona, So along with BBC News Russia Which collects information circulating on social media, local Russian newspapers, cemetery documents and news channels about confirmed deaths. Accordingly, the death toll of Russian soldiers now stands at 49,281. For comparison: According to official figures, 14,453 Soviet soldiers died in combat in the Afghanistan War from 1979 to 1989.
Fighting in Ukraine's war continues over Easter: wounded after a missile attack on Odessa
First report on March 30: MOSCOW – Official reports indicate that at least five people were injured in a Russian missile attack on the coastal city of Odessa in southern Ukraine. Odessa Mayor Hennadje Trukhanov said a 15-year-old teenager was among the victims. The two missiles could have been shot down by air defense. But debris fell on streets and buildings.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again insisted on more international air defense assistance in his evening video address. “The main target of the enemy in this missile terrorism is our energy sector,” Zelensky said, referring to attacks in recent days, which have increasingly targeted Ukrainian energy facilities. According to electricity grid operator Ukrinirho, scheduled power outages are currently necessary in the eastern Kharkiv region. Energy supplies are also at risk in Odessa and the Khmelnitsky region. The air defense was active again in Odessa on Saturday evening.
Reports of deaths and injuries in a drone attack in the Russian city of Belgorod during the Ukrainian war
Meanwhile, in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, one man was killed and two other people were injured when a drone struck a residential building. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his channel on the Telegram news network that the wife of the dead man was taken to hospital with a brain injury and burns.
Belgorod is constantly under fire. Attacks from the Ukrainian side have increased significantly recently. However, the number of casualties and damage is still disproportionate to the devastating consequences of the Russian invasion on the Ukrainian side. (talk to agencies)
Israel publishes a video of Hamas members at the United Nations compound in Rafah
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Israel has provided further evidence of entanglements between Hamas and the UN’s Palestinian relief agency: A drone recording shows armed men working at a relief organization site in Rafah. UN vehicles can also be seen.
DrThe links between Hamas and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) appear to be greater than previously known: the Israeli Armed Forces released a video on Channel X on Tuesday that reportedly shows Hamas terrorists in one of the agency’s facilities.
In the video, several armed people can be seen walking through the grounds of an UNRWA warehouse. UN vehicles can also be seen. According to the Israeli institution COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories), which coordinates the delivery of Israeli aid to the Gaza Strip, the drone footage comes from a warehouse in eastern Rafah. The warehouse aims to be a central hub for aid for the Gaza Strip. The Office for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories called on the United Nations to investigate.
The United Nations and UNRWA have not yet responded to these accusations. In recent months it has become known that several employees of the relief organization may be involved in the Hamas attack on Israel. They were expelled. Hamas also used the relief organization’s schools and hospitals as places to hide weapons or as a command center.
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Therefore, Israel also attacks these targets when Hamas uses them, including on Tuesday. The army said it killed more than 10 Hamas members in an air strike that targeted a command center. The building is said to have been a school. Hamas set up a “war room” in the middle of a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The Health Authority in the Gaza Strip said that 15 displaced people were killed in the attack on the school. The Health Authority is under Hamas control.
On the other hand, the US Department of Defense said that aid supplies will be delivered to the Gaza Strip for the first time through a temporary port in the coming days. Until now there was no harbor deep enough for large cargo ships.
Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said: “In the coming days, as part of an international effort in coordination with the United Nations and the World Food Program, the United States will begin facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through the Cyprus sea corridor.” He said Tuesday in Washington.
The plan is for a cargo ship to transport aid supplies from Cyprus directly to a floating dock. The goods are scheduled to be loaded onto other ships there and transported to another mobile dam on the coast. From there they should go to the beach.
It is primarily wars and conflicts that force more and more people around the world to flee their countries. Never before have there been such numbers, according to a survey conducted by a United Nations observatory.
Wars and conflicts have brought the number of people fleeing within their countries to a new high all over the world. At the end of 2023, 75.9 million people were internally displaced – that is, they had fled their communities and found housing elsewhere in their home country. This was reported by the Internally Displaced Persons Observatory (IDMC) in Geneva. This represents an increase of approximately seven percent over the previous year and 50 percent over the previous five years.
In its report, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center distinguishes between the displaced themselves and the number of displaced people. Thus the same person can be evacuated several times within a given period of time. Conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Gaza Strip accounted for two-thirds of last year’s new displacement in 2023.
The population of the Gaza Strip has been displaced several times
African countries account for nearly half of all internally displaced people worldwide. Many of them are in Sudan: inside the country, more than nine million people fled violence at the end of 2023. In the Gaza Strip, the same people have been displaced several times. At the end of the year, a total of 1.7 million internally displaced persons were registered. In the last three months of 2023 alone after the start of the war, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center counted 3.4 million new displacements, equivalent to 17 percent of the total conflict-related displacements worldwide during the year.
The total number of people who have had to flee their homeland due to wars, conflicts or disasters is much higher. It also takes into account people who have fled across borders to other countries. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, this number reached about 114 million people at the end of 2023. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees fears that the number will rise to 130 million by the end of the year.
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, nearly 90 percent of internally displaced people were forced to flee their hometowns due to conflict and violence, while others were forced to flee due to disasters. At the end of 2023, there were 7.7 million people displaced by floods, storms, earthquakes, fires and other disasters, and had found refuge elsewhere in their countries of origin.
Preventing conflicts to fail”
The Liaison Office is committed to providing further assistance to countries in caring for internally displaced persons. “The conflict and devastation it has left behind means that millions are unable to rebuild their lives, often for years,” said Alexandra Belak, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which founded the observatory, said the high number is a „devastating verdict on the failure to prevent conflicts and build peace.”
International law distinguishes between internally displaced persons on the one hand and refugees on the other. Refugees flee oppression, violence and war from their homeland to another country. The Internal Displacement Observatory, based in Geneva, is part of the Norwegian Refugee Council. The center works closely with the United Nations.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is making an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv receipt. He arrived on a night train from Poland on Tuesday morning. During Blinken’s fourth visit to Kiev since the start of Russia’s war of aggression in February 2022, he is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Above all, the trip should send a strong signal to reassure Ukrainians, who are clearly “in a very difficult situation,” a senior US government official told reporters on the train with Secretary of State Blinken. He referred to the fighting on the front in the east and the attacks on Kharkiv. It will flash Ukraine I confirm the continued support of the United States of America. A US government official traveling with him said: “The secretary’s trip is intended to discuss how our additional assistance can be used to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses and enable it to regain the initiative on the battlefield.”
In the Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian army is currently under increasing pressure from the Russian offensive. On Monday, the Ukrainian General Staff recognized the „tactical successes” achieved by Russian forces in the region located in northeastern Ukraine. According to Ukrainian information, the Russian army launched a ground attack in the Kharkiv region of Russia on Friday.
The United States has announced several aid commitments to Ukraine in recent weeks. This aid came after the US Congress agreed to provide military aid worth $61 billion (about 56 billion euros) in April after months of stalemate.
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is making an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv receipt. He arrived on a night train from Poland on Tuesday morning. During Blinken’s fourth visit to Kiev since the start of Russia’s war of aggression in February 2022, he is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Above all, the trip should send a strong signal to reassure Ukrainians, who are clearly “in a very difficult situation,” a senior US government official told reporters on the train with Secretary of State Blinken. He referred to the fighting on the front in the east and the attacks on Kharkiv. It will flash Ukraine I confirm the continued support of the United States of America. A US government official traveling with him said: “The secretary’s trip is intended to discuss how our additional assistance can be used to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses and enable it to regain the initiative on the battlefield.”
