The latest information on the war in Ukraine on March 30 [papildināts 12:15]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on March 30. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land for more than a month.

12.15. Russian troops lost about 17.3 thousand troops in the war in Ukraine from February 24 to March 30, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told Facebook.

Russian troops have also lost 605 tanks, 1,723 armored vehicles, 305 artillery systems, 96 multi-charge jets, 54 anti-aircraft defenses, 131 aircraft, 131 helicopters, 1,184 ships, seven ships and cutters, 75 tankers, 81 operational tactical drones, 21 special equipment units , four operational tactical missile assemblies and tactical missile assemblies.

11.46. Russian troops continued to fire on Chernihiv and Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday night, Vyacheslav Chauss, head of the Chernihiv district administration, said. “Again, civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, libraries, shopping malls and other facilities have been destroyed, and a lot of houses have been destroyed. In fact, the enemy struck Chernihiv all night. But we will restore everything,” the head of the Chernihiv district administration said.

11.26. Britain has expressed its readiness to provide Ukraine with security guarantees if Kiev so requests, said Barbara Woodord, the British Permanent Representative to the United Nations. “We will be happy to take on this role if the Ukrainian government asks us to do so,” she said.

10.43. The German government said on Wednesday it was activating an early warning level in its gas supply plan over fears that Russia could cut off gas supplies to Europe if western countries refused to pay in rubles.

10.25. Russian troops who invaded Ukraine have moved to Plan B after the initial failure of the lightning war, Ukrainian Ambassador Serhiy Kislitz said at a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.

“After the failure of its original lightning war plan, Russian troops have moved on to plan B. This plan aims to provoke a humanitarian catastrophe throughout Ukraine and destroy my country’s agricultural potential to intimidate Ukraine’s political leadership and people and sink it into capitulation,” the diplomat said.

10.05. Russian troops have fired heavy weapons into residential quarters in Lysansky, Luhansk Oblast, the Luhansk Oblast administration told Facebook.

08.41. Russia has transferred about 2,000 troops from occupied Georgia to Ukraine, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Wednesday.

08.37. Some sanctions imposed on Russia are not working, says Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office. “Our partners now impose sanctions almost every week. They are different. Some of them have already started to work and are extremely noticeable for Russia. But some seem to sound like sanctions, but they do not work at all,” in a webinar with Ukrainian and foreign experts who will analyze the impact of the sanctions, the official said.

07.35. Polish clothing manufacturer and trader LPP has closed its stores in Russia in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the company said. LPP stores in more than 25 countries operate under the brands “Reserved”, “Cropp”, “House”, “Mohito” and “Sinsay”.

07.11. The alleged withdrawal of Russian troops in the Kiev and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine could in fact be a regrouping and rotation of troops, according to a summary of the situation on Tuesday by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

05.44. Russia has begun accusing the West of using cars with medical symbols to bring weapons into Ukraine. The statements were made by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzy, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant.

05.16. Russia’s demilitarization, carried out by the Ukrainian army and supported by the entire Ukrainian nation, is in full swing, but parliamentaryization is delayed, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Serhiy Kislitz, said.

04.40. Ukraine’s only guarantee of survival at the moment is its Armed Forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video on Tuesday, commenting on talks with Russia.

“The defense of Ukraine is currently the number one task, but everything else is a derivative of it. It is on this basis that I am looking at statements about the ongoing negotiation process with representatives of the Russian Federation. The enemy is still in our territory. The firing on our cities continues. Mariupol Rockets and aviation are not stopped, that is the reality, that is why the Ukrainian Armed Forces, our intelligence service, everyone who has joined the national defense, is the only guarantee of our survival today. [Izdzīvošanas] as a nation, as a state. “

02.43. German chocolate company Ritter Sport has no plans to leave Russia, which is an important market for the company, and will continue to supply chocolate to Russia despite Russia’s war against Ukraine, the German business magazine Handelsblatt reports.

02.20. Russia’s naval forces in the Black Sea region are blocking more than 90 civilian ships carrying grain and other food, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said at a UN Security Council meeting.

01.09. At least 12 people have been killed in an attack by Russian troops on the Mykolaiv Oblast State Administration building, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said. The service reports that at least 33 people have been injured. A nine-storey building of the district administration in Mykolaiv was damaged during the shooting on Tuesday morning at around 8.45. The central section of the building from the ninth to the first floor has collapsed, but the fire has not started.

00.57.Marina Ovsyanikova, a former editor of Russia’s First Channel, who had shown a post-war poster on television, deleted a text from her website asking Western countries to lift sanctions against Russia. She hardly changed her mind, but rather reacted to the wave of outrage caused by her text.

00.38. The Ukrainian army has destroyed 7 tanks and 7 armored vehicles in the Donbass, reports Українська правда.

00.20. There can be no question of lifting the sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine until the end of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.

00.10. Russia is repositioning its forces in areas near Kiev instead of withdrawing them, and the Ukrainian capital is still under threat, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

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