Live text – brief and concise on the events in Ukraine on March 13
09:21. After the victory in the war against Russia, Latvia will open an honorary consulate in liberated Donetsk, the former Latvian ambassador to Ukraine Juris Poikāns told the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
08.52. NATO predicts even more trouble in Ukraine in the coming days, the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, told Welt am Sonntag.
08.27. Russian troops have fired a rocket into the Yavoriv military landfill on the outskirts of Lviv in western Ukraine, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, Maxim Kozicki, head of the Lviv Oblast Military Administration.
07.00. Russia’s air bombing on Saturday night has devastated an Orthodox monastery in Svattohirsk, Donetsk region, injuring several people, the Strategic Communications and Information Security Center of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine said.
06.15. Ukraine’s air defense destroyed six Russian military aircraft last day, Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday.
05.30. More than 12,000 people were evacuated from settlements surrounded by Russian troops in Ukraine last day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.
04.44. Collaborators who will accept Russian invaders’ offers will sign a verdict, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.
Occupiers in the Kherson region are trying to create a pseudo-republic, similar to what happened in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions eight years ago, Zelensky said in a video speech.
00.23. The Moscow stock exchange, which was closed the day after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, will continue to operate next week, TASS reports.
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