The Russia-Ukraine war has entered it’s second week of intense fighting, here is all you have to know on day 10,11, and 12.
- Russia steps up its shelling as the UN says 1.5 million people have now fled
- Attempts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol fail again, amid repeated ceasefire violations
- Ukraine‘s military says it is fighting ‘fierce battles’ on the edge of the southern city of Mykolayiv,
- Dozens of civilians are being killed in the battle for Chernihiv in the north
- A barrage of Russian missiles destroys Vinnytsia airport in central Ukraine
- Russian shops are told to limit sales of essential foodstuffs to counter black market speculation
- Thousands more are arrested at anti-war demonstrations in Russia, bringing the total to well over 11,000
- Vladimir Putin says he will achieve his aims in Ukraine ‘through negotiation or through war’
- US ‘green lights’ Poland to supply Kyiv with fighter jets, amid fears it could drag NATO into war
- Antony Blinken says the West is in ‘very active’ discussions about a Russian oil embargo, despite price at all-time high
- Credit card giants Visa, Mastercard and American Express freeze business in Russia. Russian banks say they will use China’s UnionPay system
- Consultancy firms KPMG and PwC announce an end to operations in Russia
- France announces it will send iodine tablets and other medical supplies to Ukraine. They are used to protect against the effects of exposure to radiation
- krainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says 20,000 international volunteers have joined the fight
- Netflix suspends services in Russia and social media giant TikTok blocks posting of video content from the country
- Foreign media including the BBC, CBC, ARD, ZDF, Bloomberg News, CNN, CBS, RAI and EFE have suspended reporting from Russia after Moscow threatened jail terms.
Meanwhile One of the Russian warships that bombarded Ukraine’s Snake Island on the first day of the war was destroyed by rocket fire yesterday.
Defence forces based in the Black Sea port of Odessa hit the Vasily Byko with a rocket barrage, Ukrainian military sources said.
The ship was one of two involved in the notorious attack on Snake Island, where 13 Ukrainian border guards who had been ordered to surrender told the Russian navy to ‘go f*** yourself’ before being shelled in response.
In the same vein, Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have destroyed up to 30 Russian helicopters that had been moved to Chornobaivka airport, near Kherson, overnight and to have retaken the city of Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv, killing two Russian commanders – Lt. Col. Dmitry Safronov, and Lt Col. Denis Glebov – in the process.
Ukraine’s ministry of defence claims to have taken out more than 11,000 troops, some 290 tanks, 1,000 armoured personnel carriers, 46 planes, 68 helicopters and 117 artillery pieces as-of Monday morning.
None of those figures has been independently verified. Russia has acknowledged taking losses, but gave a figure of 500 deaths last week and has not updated it since.
In another developments, Russia has made progress in southern Ukraine since its invasion 11 days ago, overrunning the city of Kherson and shelling the port of Mariupol, but Odessa has so far been largely spared.
Putin’s men renewed their bombardments on Mariupol, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv this morning as hundreds of civilians tried to evacuate Irpin – on the outskirts of Kyiv – across a destroyed bridge after days of heavy attacks in an attempt to encircle the capital.
But Russian commanders have not significantly advanced their frontline since the city of Kherson and nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia were captured last week.
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