15.03.2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:06 Selenskyj: Management staff unanimously for the defense of Bachmut +++
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the military command staff in Ukraine is unanimously in favor of defending eastern Ukraine and the besieged city of Bakhmut. “The focus was on Bakhmut,” says Zelenskyj in his nightly video message. The entire staff had spoken out in favor of inflicting the greatest possible casualties on the Russians.
+++ 21:28 Kuleba: 32 states call for a tribunal for Russia’s war crimes +++
According to Ukraine’s Defense Minister Dmytro Kuleba, two other states have joined the coalition, which intends to set up a special tribunal against Russia over its war crimes in Ukraine. A total of 32 countries are supporting the project. The EU and Ukraine support the establishment of such an entity. Russia denies accusations that it is committing war crimes and deliberately shooting at Ukrainian civilians.
+++ 20:47 Russian army probably fires phosphorus bombs near Bakhmut +++
Phosphorus bombs are being used in Russian attacks on uninhabited areas near the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, according to AFP journalists. According to the reporters, two shells were fired at around 4:45 p.m. five minutes apart over a road in an uninhabited area at the southern exit of the village of Chasiv Yar, about 15 kilometers from Bakhmut. Explosions released small glowing balls of phosphorus that slowly fell straight down, igniting football-field-sized vegetation on either side of the road. The road connects Chasiv Yar and Bakhmut.
+++ 20:29 UN indicate willingness to negotiate on grain agreements +++
The United Nations has indicated a willingness to compromise in view of the Russian offer of a limited extension of the agreement to export Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea. “Regarding the Black Sea Grains Initiative, the agreement provides for a 120-day extension, but under the current circumstances, the Secretary-General and his team, in close contact with all parties, are focused on doing everything possible to ensure continuity of the initiative,” says spokesman Stephane Dujarric in New York.
You can read earlier developments in the Ukraine war here.
