Latest update on the Ukrainian war: 397 days and counting [updated at 18:46]

Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the Ukrainian war on March 27. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for a whole year.

18:46 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi visited Zaporizhzhia on Monday.

“I met with Zelenskiy in Zaporizhia today and we had a valuable exchange of views on the protection of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP),” Grossi tweeted.

“I reaffirm the IAEA’s full support for Ukraine’s nuclear facilities,” he added.

After launching a full-scale war against Ukraine last February, Russian troops seized the southern part of the Zaporizhia region, including the Zaporizhia NPP – Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

On Monday, Zelensky visited the positions of the Ukrainian army in the Zaporizhzhia region.

“I am honored to be here today with our soldiers,” Zelensky said on social media.

The president also published a video in which he is seen with soldiers.

“We will definitely win,” Zelensky emphasized.

In the course of the visit, Zelenskiy visited the local command post and also presented awards to policemen and soldiers, the president’s office said in a statement.

Last week, Zelensky visited Kherson, as well as army positions in the Donetsk region.

18:04. “Spiegel” writes that 18 “Leopard 2” tanks promised by Germany have arrived in Ukraine. The publication reports that approximately 40 “Marder” infantry fighting vehicles have also been delivered to the country. “Spiegel” reports that Ukraine received the Leopard tanks along with “a large package of armaments and spare parts”.

17:25. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus will not affect Germany’s stance on aid to Ukraine, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed on Monday, describing Putin’s remarks as “another attempt at nuclear intimidation.” Berlin considers such Kremlin rhetoric irresponsible, he emphasized.

16:44. An ambulance from Ukraine damaged by bullets and shell fragments is on display in the center of Vilnius. The medical vehicle from the Derhachi Central Hospital of Kharkiv region, parked on Vinca Kudirka Square, is one of the symbols of how cruel the occupiers are to Ukrainian civilians, according to the Ukrainian Embassy in Vilnius.

16:11. The most intense phase of the battle for Bakhmut continues, said the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Army, Colonel-General Oleksandr Sirsky. The last three days show that today there were 18 combat encounters, until recently there were 30-50. According to the data of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 3,500 peaceful inhabitants, including 32 children, remained in Bahmut.

14:46. At least two people were killed and 29 wounded by Russian missile fire in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, on Monday, said Pavlo Kirilenko, head of the military administration of the Donetsk region. Russia fired two S-300 missiles at the city center. Administrative and office buildings, five high-rise buildings and seven private houses were damaged in the missile strikes, Kirilenko said.

13:55. The car of Mikhail Moskvin, the head of the police established by the authorities, was blown up in Mariupol, occupied by the Russian army, but he survived the attack, Russian media reported on Monday. Moscow-appointed authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine periodically report sabotage and attacks blamed on Kyiv.

12.47. The deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus would cause another wave of tension and destabilization in Europe, and in response, Lithuania will call on its partners to adopt new sanctions, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry emphasized that with the announcements about the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus, the dictators of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, are “desperately trying to create another wave of tension and destabilization in Europe.”

11.32. Ukrainian soldiers in Great Britain have completed training in the use of the “Challenger 2” tank and have returned to Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense announced on Monday. The training lasted several weeks.

11.03. This morning in occupied Mariupol, unknown persons blew up the car of a high-ranking Russian military official, reports pravda.com.ua.

10.10. This morning, several explosions rocked the occupied city of Melitopol, Zaporizhia region, reports pravda.com.ua.

08.37. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 171,160 soldiers by Monday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the General Staff, 610 invaders were destroyed during the day.

Since the beginning of the repeated invasion on February 24 of last year, the Russians have lost 3,595 tanks, 6,953 armored personnel carriers, 2,638 cannons, 523 multi-charge rocket launchers, 277 anti-aircraft artillery installations, 305 airplanes, 291 helicopters, 2,216 drones, 911 cruise missiles, 5,493 cars, and 18 tankers. and speedboats, as well as 285 units of specialized equipment.

08.06. In Liepāja, on the promenade – at the end of Celtnieku street, the Russian occupier tank “T-72B” destroyed by the Ukrainian armed forces, which was on display in Riga in front of the Russian embassy in Latvia since February 24 of this year, can be viewed.

07.12. Russian troops attacked two districts of Sumy on Sunday, March 26, reports pravda.com.ua. As reported, no victims were registered during the attack and no infrastructure was damaged.

00:10. In connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on all members of the world community “to make Putin’s criminal regime understand that its current nuclear provocations are categorically unacceptable, and to take decisive measures to effectively deter and prevent any possibility that the aggressor state would use nuclear weapons”.

“Russia once again proves its chronic inability to responsibly deal with nuclear weapons as a means of preventing war, not as a threat and intimidation tool. The world must be united against the one who threatens the future of civilization,” emphasizes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.