On the 389th day of the full-scale Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine Russian troops continue to try to keep the captured settlements of the neighboring country under control. The armed forces and units of the territorial defense of Ukraine resist aggression. It is impossible to verify the statements of representatives of both sides from independent sources. According to the UN, more than 16 million Ukrainians have already left their homes. DW continues to follow developments Sunday, March 19 (Moscow time).
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Pope Francis mentioned in his Sunday speech war crimes in Ukraine. The pontiff urged believers to pray for the Ukrainian people, who are under attack and “continue to suffer because of war crimes.”
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Governor Kursk region Roman Starovoit accused the Armed Forces of shelling several border settlements. There were no injuries, the official said. In the village of Krasnooktyabrsky, Glushkovsky district, the building of a first-aid post and 4 private households were slightly damaged, and breaks in power lines were also recorded, Starovoit added. The Ukrainian side has not commented on these allegations.
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Near Kupyansk V Kharkiv region A Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily report. In addition, the agency reported on the interception of 9 HIMARS and Vilkha multiple rocket launchers, the destruction of 7 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, and the destruction of two hangars with weapons and military equipment in the Kherson region.
Over the past 24 hours, more than 80 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the Donetsk direction, up to 50 servicemen in the Kupyansk direction, over 90 in the Liman direction, over 50 people in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, and up to 20 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kherson direction, according to the Russian agency. .
In Kyiv, supported the readiness of Germany to arrest Putin on an ICC warrant
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Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak commented on the statements of the Minister of Justice of Germany Marco Buschmann (Marco Buschmann) about the intention to comply with the requirement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he appears in Germany. “Impeccably. The international warrant should be executed. And it is very symbolic that it was Germany that was the first to set the accents: in the event of the appearance of the” suspected Putin V.V. “in their jurisdiction, he will be immediately arrested. For organizing a mass kidnapping and aggressive violence against Ukrainian children“Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
In addition, an adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president condemned Putin’s trip to the Russian-occupied Mariupol. “The organizer of the murders of thousands of Mariupol families came to admire the ruins of the city and the mass graves. Cynicism and lack of remorse,” Podolyak said.
On March 17, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, as well as for Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights under the President of the Russian Federation. They are suspected of war crimes, in particular, the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. Moscow denies any involvement in war crimes committed in Ukraine after Russia’s military invasion. Russia does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and does not participate in its work.
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Installing cracked software may allow Russian special services gain access to the contents of Ukrainian computers, warned the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine. “Intruders, including Russian special services,” add malicious code to the hacked software, the agency explained.
System administrators in many post-Soviet countries still use unlicensed software distributed via torrent trackers, including operating systems, in institutions and companies, the State Special Communications Service noted. “By installing hacked software from torrents, they actually give Russian intelligence services access to the contents of working machines,” the department added.
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Mariupol City Council criticized the visit of the President of Russia to the city captured by the Russian forces, calling the head of state an “international criminal”. Vladimir Putin “looked at the ‘restoration of the city’… at night. Probably, in the light of day, not to see the city that had been shot down and killed by its ‘liberation,'” the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian government says.
NATO will accelerate the deployment of forces on the eastern flank of the alliance
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NATO in the coming months will make additional efforts to deploy troops and equipment on the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Alliance, writes Politico. The move is intended to prevent Russia from expanding the war beyond Ukraine, the publication notes.
We are talking about the forces of NATO, capable in a short time to go to the aid of the allied states. Alliance officials estimate that this will require up to 300,000 troops.
The first echelon of troops could be about 100,000 troops ready to move out within 10 days. It can include troops from Poland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, explains former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy Horst-Heinrich Brauß. The second echelon is designed to support the first and should be ready for shipment from countries such as Germany within 10-30 days, the publication clarifies. However, for the successful implementation of the plan, the alliance needs to convince individual countries to provide various elements – from military personnel and structures for their training to infrastructure and a large amount of weapons and ammunition.
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