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Editor’s note: This page recaps the news from Ukraine on Saturday, March 19.\u00a0Follow here for the latest updates and news from Sunday, March 20<\/a>, as Russia’s invasion continues.<\/em>
Russia’s invasion\u00a0of Ukraine has entered its fourth week without capturing\u00a0Kyiv\u00a0or toppling Ukraine’s government, but the bombardment of Ukrainian\u00a0cities continues \u2014 a move western defense experts warn could be a sign of a cruel and intentional strategy.
The situation grew increasingly dire in the port city of Mariupol, where Russian forces pushed deeper Saturday in an area already experiencing what onlookers describe as a humanitarian crisis.
“Children, elderly people are dying. The city is destroyed and it is wiped off the face of the earth,\u201d Mariupol police officer Michail Vershnin said in a video filmed Friday that was authenticated by The Associated Press..
Fighting shut down the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol,\u00a0Vadym Denysenko, adviser to Ukraine\u2019s interior minister, said Saturday, while other officials said forces that could help Ukraine defend Mariupol were facing massive resistance.
“There is currently no military solution to Mariupol,\u201d Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said late Friday. \u201cThat is not only my opinion, that is the opinion of the military.\u201d
Britain\u2019s defense intelligence chief described it as an emerging\u00a0\u201dstrategy of attrition.\u201d
Russian forces are besieging Ukrainian cities, relying increasingly on bombarding them from a distance with artillery, missiles and air strikes, according to the Pentagon.
\u201cThis is likely to involve the indiscriminate use of firepower resulting in increased civilian casualties, destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure, and intensify the humanitarian crisis,\u201d British Defense attache Mick Smeath said in a statement Saturday.
Meanwhile in Russia, President Vladimir Putin<\/a> is reinforcing his control of domestic media, attempting to obscure high casualties amid fierce resistance encountered in his invasion of Ukraine, according to a British Defense Ministry intelligence estimate.
The assessment was echoed by the\u00a0Atlantic Council, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank, in a report this week<\/a>. The group warned that since Russia’s “lightning offensive designed to take the capital” had failed, the military appeared to be settling in for an extended campaign “designed to suffocate Ukraine.”
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The strategy would likely involve attacking civilian areas, destroying\u00a0cities and blocking off supplies, possibly leading to famine, according to the analysis. The organization later drew parallels to\u00a0an artificial famine engineered by the Kremlin in the 1930s<\/a>\u00a0that killed millions of Ukrainians \u2014 a Soviet attempt to “subjugate the Ukrainian nation.”
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Latest developments:<\/em>
\u25baAt least 847 civilians, including 64 children, have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner\u00a0reported Saturday, but the agency said the actual figures are much higher. Agents also estimated the violence had left\u00a0nearly 1,400 civilians injured,\u00a0including 78 children.
\u25baThe Mariupol city council claimed Russian soldiers have forced several thousand city residents to be relocated to Russia. “The occupiers illegally took people out of the Levoberezhny district and a shelter in the building of a sports club, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) were hiding from constant bombing,” the council said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
\u25baSaturday, Ukraine and Russia agreed to open 10 humanitarian corridors to assist in the evacuation efforts, according to Ukraine’s deputy prime minster.
\u25baThe U.N. migration agency says the fighting has\u00a0displaced nearly 6.5 million people inside Ukraine, on top of the 3.2 million refugees who have already fled the country. Ukraine says thousands have been killed.
\u25baThe Ukraine military claims to have killed another Russian general \u2013 the fifth since the invasion began.
The British defense ministry said the Ukrainian Air Force and air defense forces are \u201ccontinuing to effectively defend Ukrainian airspace.\u201d
\u201cRussia has failed to gain control of the air and is largely relying on stand-off weapons launched from the relative safety of Russian airspace to strike targets within Ukraine,\u201d the ministry said on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cGaining control of the air was one of Russia\u2019s principal objectives for the opening days of the conflict and their continued failure to do so has significantly blunted their operational progress.\u201d
A Ukrainian military official meanwhile confirmed to a Ukrainian newspaper that Russian forces carried out a missile strike Friday on a missile and ammunition warehouse in the Delyatyn settlement of the Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine.
But Ukraine\u2019s Air Forces spokesman Yurii Ihnat told Ukrainskaya Pravda on Saturday that it has not been confirmed that the missile was indeed a hypersonic Kinzhal.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said earlier Saturday that Russian military hit the underground warehouse in Delyatyn on Friday with the hypersonic Kinzhal missile in its first reported combat use. According to Russian officials, the Kinzhal, carried by MiG-31 fighter jets, has a range of up to 1,250 miles flies at 10 times the speed of sound.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the siege of Mariupol<\/a> will go down in history for what he’s calling war crimes by Russia’s military.
\u201cTo do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come,\u201d he said early Sunday in his nighttime video address to the nation.
Zelenskyy told Ukrainians the ongoing negotiations with Russia were \u201cnot simple or pleasant, but they are necessary.\u201d He said he discussed the course of the talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday.
\u201cUkraine has always sought a peaceful solution. Moreover, we are interested in peace now,\u201d he said.
Meanwhile, Russia’s military isn’t even recovering the bodies of its soldiers in some places, Zelenskyy said.
\u201cIn places where there were especially fierce battles, the bodies of Russian soldiers simply pile up along our line of defense. And no one is collecting these bodies,\u201d he said. He described as battle near Chornobayivka in the south, where Ukrainian forces held their positions and six times beat back the Russians, who just kept \u201csending their people to slaughter.\u201d
– The Associated Press<\/em>
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Estimates of Russian deaths vary widely. Yet even conservative figures are in the low thousands. That\u2019s a much faster pace than in previous Russian offensives, threatening support for the war among ordinary Russians. Russia had 64 deaths in five days of fighting during its 2008 war with Georgia. It lost about 15,000 in Afghanistan over 10 years, and more than 11,000 over years of fighting in Chechnya.
Russia\u2019s number of dead and wounded in Ukraine is nearing the 10% benchmark of diminished combat effectiveness, said Dmitry Gorenburg, a researcher on Russia\u2019s security at the Virginia-based CNA think tank. The reported battlefield deaths of four Russian generals \u2014 out of an estimated 20 in the fight \u2014 signal impaired command, he said.
Researchers tracking only those Russian equipment losses that were photographed or recorded on video say Russia has lost more than 1,500 tanks, trucks, mounted equipment and other heavy gear. Two out of three of those were captured or abandoned, signaling the failings of the Russian troops that let them go.
When it comes to the grinding job of capturing and holding cities, conventional military metrics suggest Russia needs a 5-to-1 advantage in urban fighting, analysts say. Meanwhile, the formula for ruling a restive territory in the face of armed opposition is 20 fighters for every 1,000 people \u2014 or 800,000 Russian troops for Ukraine\u2019s more than 40 million people, said Michael Clarke, former head of the British-based Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank
That\u2019s almost as many as Russia\u2019s entire active-duty military of 900,000, and it means controlling substantial Ukrainian territory long term could take more resources than Russia can commit, he said.
\u201cUnless the Russians intend to be completely genocidal \u2014 they could flatten all the major cities, and Ukrainians will rise up against Russian occupation \u2014 there will be just constant guerrilla war,\u201d said Clarke.
– The Associated Press<\/em>
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Evacuations from besieged cities proceeded Saturday along eight of 10 humanitarian corridors, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. She said a total of 6,623 people were evacuated, including 4,128 from Mariupol who were taken northwest to Zaporizhzhia.
Russian forces pushed deeper into the besieged and battered port city of Mariupol, where heavy fighting on Saturday shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help.
The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war\u2019s worst suffering, would mark a major battlefield advance for the Russians, who are largely bogged down outside major cities more than three weeks into the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II.
-The Associated Press<\/em>
Pope Francis has paid a visit to some of the Ukrainian children who escaped the Russian invasion and are currently being treated at the Vatican\u2019s pediatric hospital in Rome.
The Vatican says the Bambino Gesu hospital is currently tending to 19 Ukrainian refugees, and that overall some 50 have passed through in recent weeks.
Some were suffering oncological, neurological and other problems before the war and fled in the early days. Others are being treated for wounds incurred as a result of the invasion.
The Vatican says Francis travelled the short distance up the hill to the hospital on Saturday afternoon. He met with all the young patients in their rooms before returning back to the Vatican.
Francis has spoken out about the \u201cbarbarity\u201d of the war and especially the death and injury it has caused Ukrainian children.
-The Associated Press<\/em>
Russia said it used a hypersonic missile Friday to strike a western Ukraine target, the Interfax news agency reported.<\/a>
Hypersonic missiles are missiles that can move at\u00a0five times the speed of sound. The Russian military said these missiles are capable of hitting targets at a range of more than 1,200 miles, or roughly the distance from New York City to Kansas City.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aero ballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” the Russian defense ministry said Saturday.
This is the first known use of hypersonic missiles since Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
–\u00a0 Ana Faguy<\/em>
A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators visited a refugee center in Poland on Saturday and met with officials from several countries to reinforce U.S. support for providing humanitarian assistance and lethal aid<\/a> to Ukraine\u2019s defense against Russia\u2019s invasion.
\u201cThis invasion of Russia into Ukraine is abhorrent and we cannot stand for it,\u201d said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. \u201cThe goal is a free and sovereign Ukraine. We want peace, but we want a free and sovereign Ukraine.\u201d
The lawmakers<\/a> displayed part of a missile that struck close to the Polish border. Ernst said lawmakers didn\u2019t visit the border, but did stop in at a refugee center<\/a> where people rested before resettling elsewhere in Poland or other countries.
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\u201cWe do need to find new ways of getting much needed material into Ukraine as quickly as possible,\u201d Ernst said after the delegation met with leaders from Poland, Ukraine and Germany.
Ernst,\u00a0a retired lieutenant colonel in the Iowa Army National Guard who served in the Iraq war and sits on the Armed Services Committee, said Russian President Vladimir Putin should be held accountable for the war\u00a0and for targeting women, children and the elderly.
\u201cIt\u2019s a truly weak man that targets children, elderly, women. Putin is a weak leader,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cHe may be trying to project strength, but he is a weak man when he is going after weak individuals. We need to hold him accountable for the crimes that he is committing in Ukraine. This is abhorrent. It is an illegal war and he needs to held accountable.\u201d
– Bart Jansen<\/em>
The more than 1.5 million children who have fled Ukraine as refugees face a higher risk for exploitation and trafficking,\u00a0UNICEF said Saturday<\/a>.
Women and children represent nearly all of the refugees who have left Ukraine since Feb. 24. UNICEF said that increases the proportion of potential trafficking victims.
“The war in Ukraine is leading to massive displacement and refugee flows – conditions that could lead to a significant spike in human trafficking and an acute child protection crisis,” said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia. “Displaced children are extremely vulnerable to being separated from their families, exploited, and trafficked. They need governments in the region to step up and put measures in place to keep them safe.”
With more than 500 unaccompanied children identified crossing from Ukraine into Romania as of March 17, UNICEF warned that separated children are especially vulnerable to trafficking.
– Ana Faguy<\/em>
Three Russian cosmonauts on Friday boarded the International Space Station donning spacesuits in the Ukrainian flag’s colors. Images of the cosmonauts wearing the striking yellow and blue suits sparked speculation online that the colors were worn in protest of Russia\u2019s invasion.
The cosmonauts are Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov. They docked at the station in their Russian Soyuz spacecraft at 3:12 p.m. EDT and are scheduled to stay aboard the station until September,\u00a0according to Space.com.<\/a>\u00a0
When asked about the colors in a live-streamed press conference after the docking, Artemyev indicated they were a coincidence,\u00a0according to the BBC<\/a>.\u00a0
“It became our turn to pick a color,” Artemyev said. “We had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it. That’s why we had to wear yellow.”
But some on social media weren\u2019t convinced.\u00a0
Former NASA astronauts\u00a0Scott Kelly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Terry Virts<\/a>\u00a0suggested on Twitter that the colors were in support of Ukraine, and astronomer Jonathan McDowell<\/a>\u00a0speculated on Twitter\u00a0that the colors were meant as an homage to the cosmonauts\u2019 alma mater, Bauman University, which also has blue and yellow colors.\u00a0
There are seven people already on the orbiting lab, according to Space.com: cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, Matthias Maurer of the European Space Agency, and NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Mark Vande Hei.
– Ella Lee<\/em>
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy urged the Swiss government to freeze the bank accounts of all Russian oligarchs<\/a>, Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported.
Zelenskyy spoke to thousands of antiwar protestors in Bern, Switzerland via livestream on Saturday where he called on the Swiss government to take away privileges from those who are involved in the war.
More:<\/strong>Who are Russia’s oligarchs and how do they play into the war in Ukraine?<\/a>
“In your banks are the funds of the people who unleashed this war,” Zelenskyy said. “Help to fight this. So that their funds are frozen.”
The Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) estimates that Switzerland’s secretive banks hold up to $213 billion of Russian wealth.
– Ana Faguy<\/em>
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush visited a Ukrainian church in Chicago this week.
The pair brought sunflowers to Saints Volodymyr & Olha Catholic Church. Chicago, a sister city of Kyiv, is home to many Ukrainian Americans.
Clinton shared a video of the visit on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0with the caption, “America stands united with the people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom and against oppression.”
Bush posted the video on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0with the caption, “America stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they fight for their freedom and their future.”
– Ana Faguy<\/em>
Nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine, the U.N. migration agency said Friday.
That’s on top of the 3.3 million people who have crossed the Ukrainian borders<\/a> since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which released the updated data in a paper issued Friday.
The paper noted that an additional 12 million people are thought to be stranded, unable to leave for security purposes or for lack of resources and information.
– Ana Faguy<\/em>
Poland is recommending the European Union impose a total ban on trade with Russia.
Saturday, Polish\u00a0Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki proposed more stringent sanctions\u00a0on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine. He\u00a0said that a trade blockade should be added “as soon as possible,” and should include trade from Russia’s seaports as well as land trade.
“Fully cutting off Russia’s trade would further force Russia to consider whether it would be better to stop this cruel war,”\u00a0he said.
Tuesday the\u00a0E.U. agreed to a fourth sanctions package<\/a>\u00a0that included restrictions on the\u00a0Kremlin’s military-industrial\u00a0complex, an E.U. import ban on those steel products currently under EU safeguard measures and an E.U. export ban on luxury goods.
This comes as more American companies announce the suspension of business in Russia, putting a greater strain on the Russian economy. Friday\u00a0Halliburton became the latest company\u00a0to join that list<\/a>.
– Ana Faguy<\/em>
KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky says it will take years to defuse the unexploded ordnance once the Russian invasion is over.
Monastyrsky told The Associated Press in an interview on Friday that the country will need Western assistance to carry out the massive undertaking after the war.
\u201cA huge number of shells and mines have been fired at Ukraine, and a large part haven\u2019t exploded. They remain under the rubble and pose a real threat,\u201d Monastyrsky said in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. \u201cIt will take years, not months, to defuse them.\u201d
In addition to the unexploded Russian ordnance, Ukrainian troops have planted land mines at bridges, airports and other key locations to prevent the Russians from using them.
\u201cWe won\u2019t be able to remove the mines from all that territory, so I asked our international partners and colleagues from the European Union and the United States to prepare groups of experts to demine the areas of combat and facilities that came under shelling,\u201d Monastyrsky told the AP.
\u2013\u00a0The Associated Press<\/em>
Sen. Lindsey Graham\u2019s continued calls that Putin be \u201ctaken out\u201d are alarming researchers and academics who warn the South Carolina Republican\u2019s comments\u00a0are reckless because they\u00a0could be interpreted as the U.S. disregarding\u00a0international law and be used to fuel disinformation in Russia.
“There are so many dangerous aspects to his comments,” said\u00a0Anthony Arend, co-founder of the\u00a0Institute for International Law & Politics at Georgetown University.\u00a0“It sets the possible precedent that others will be able to look at the United States and say, ‘Well, they’re advocating it. Why don’t we simply move to a foreign policy that more broadly incorporates assassinations or targeting regime leaders?'”
More:<\/strong>Lindsey Graham called for Putin’s assassination. Even discussing it brings danger to US, experts say.<\/a>
Nika Aleksejeva, a Latvia-based researcher with the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, warned Graham’s comments fuel a Kremlin narrative that portrays the U.S. as a violent and lawless sponsor of terrorism out to get Russia.
“The U.S. is painted as the great evil in Russia,” she said. “One of the disinformation narrative lines is that Ukraine is our brother nation, and Russia is forced to carry out this military operation because the\u00a0U.S. made Ukraine go away from Russia \u2013 that the U.S.\u00a0is to blame in all these problems that are now between Russia and Ukraine.”
Graham, who tweeted in early March<\/a> that “the only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out,” doubled down on his comments Wednesday.
“Yeah, I hope he’ll be taken out, one way or the other,” he told reporters<\/a> during a Capitol Hill news conference. \u201cI don’t care how they take him out. I don’t care if we send him to the Hague and try him. I just want him to go.\u201d
\u2013 Grace Hauck<\/em>
Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a Moscow stadium Friday and lavished praise on his troops fighting in Ukraine, three weeks into the invasion that has led to heavier-than-expected Russian losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home.
\u201cShoulder to shoulder, they help and support each other,\u201d the Russian president said of the Kremlin\u2019s forces in a rare public appearance since the start of the war. \u201cWe have not had unity like this for a long time,\u201d he added to cheers from the crowd.
The show of support amid a burst of antiwar protests inside Russia led to allegations in some quarters that the rally \u2014 held officially to mark the eighth anniversary of Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea, which was seized from Ukraine \u2014 was a manufactured display of patriotism.
Several Telegram channels critical of the Kremlin reported that students and employees of state institutions in a number of regions were ordered by their superiors to attend rallies and concerts marking the anniversary. Those reports could not be independently verified.
Moscow police said more than 200,000 people were in and around the Luzhniki stadium. The event included patriotic songs, including a performance of \u201cMade in the U.S.S.R.,\u201d with the opening lines \u201cUkraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, it\u2019s all my country.\u201d
In response to the rally, American conservative commentator Sean Hannity suggested on his radio show that Putin was \u201cchanneling his inner Donald Trump,\u201d Business Insider reported<\/a>. During his Fox News show later in the day, Hannity again accused Putin of making his \u201cbest attempt to look like Donald Trump\u201d at the rally.\u00a0
Contributing: The Associated Press, Ella Lee<\/em>
LVIV, Ukraine \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces are blockading Ukraine\u2019s largest cities to create a \u201chumanitarian catastrophe\u201d with the aim of persuading Ukrainians to cooperate with them.
He says Russians are preventing supplies from reaching surrounded cities in the center and southeast of the country.
\u201cThis is a totally deliberate tactic,\u201d Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation, filmed outside in Kyiv, with the presidential office in the lamplight behind him.
He said more than 9,000 people were able to leave besieged Mariupol in the past day, and in all more than 180,000 people have been able to flee to safety through humanitarian corridors.
He again appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold talks with him directly.
He noted that the 200,000 people Putin gathered in and around a Moscow stadium on Friday for a flag-waving rally was about the same number of Russian troops sent into Ukraine three weeks ago.
Zelenskyy then asked his audience to picture the stadium filled with the thousands of Russians who have been killed, wounded or maimed in the fighting.
\u2014 Associated Press<\/em>
Even as Russian\u00a0forces massed on the border\u00a0with Ukraine and\u00a0the U.S. government urged Americans to leave the country, Jimmy Hill didn’t flee.\u00a0Instead, he drove even closer to Russian territory\u00a0in search of treatment for his life partner, who was sick.
James Whitney Hill, 67,\u00a0was killed\u00a0by Russian artillery fire in Ukraine this week, at least the\u00a0second American\u00a0to die there since the invasion began Feb. 24. Before his death, he touched lives around the world through teaching and storytelling, friends and family told USA TODAY.
“He had worked tirelessly to find her treatment and refused to leave her bedside when the invasion began in Ukraine,” his family said in a statement Friday about his life partner,\u00a0Irina Teslenko, who has multiple sclerosis. READ MORE<\/a>.<\/strong>
\u2013\u00a0Grace Hauck<\/em><\/p>\n

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