Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 16 March 2022

  • The United States has announced the provision of air defense systems to Ukraine at Zelensky's request
  • Russian troops fired on Kyiv again: they hit private homes
  • Novartis will stop investing in Russia, but will not close the plant
  • On Wednesday, the Ukrainian Army destroyed three enemy planes and a helicopter
  • The mayor of Melitopol was released from Russian captivity
  • Two people died as a result of the shelling in Rubizhne
  • After the start of the war, almost 7,000 applications disappeared from the Russian App Store. But not all tech giants left
  • Russian Russians killed a combat medic and the mother-heroine of 12 children
  • Rosneft CEO's mega-yacht worth $ 600 million detained in Spain
  • In Russia, state employees are being driven to rallies in support of Putin and the war
  • The Russians dropped a heavy bomb on the Mariupol Drama Theater, where hundreds of people are hiding
  • Russia has opened the first criminal cases for the truth about the war in Ukraine
  • Russia's KAMAZ has come under EU sanctions
  • The UN International Court of Justice has ordered Russia to stop the war against Ukraine
  • A large-scale fire broke out in Kharkiv after the shelling: 3 people were killed and 5 were injured
  • BMW and Volkswagen plants are idle due to lack of Ukrainian parts - FT
  • Medvedchuk's yacht was arrested in Croatia
  • The son of the Russian vice-governor of the Russian Federation came to fight in Ukraine and was killed
  • The Russians fired on a column marching from Mariupol: there are dead and wounded
  • British shareholders are demanding that the French oil and gas company TotalEnergies leave Russia
  • Russia has blocked access to the BBC's international website
  • The world's fifth gold reserve will not help Russia ease sanctions
  • Zelensky invited the Americans to create a new alliance
  • Putin called his war in Ukraine "successful": everything is according to plan
  • The United States and NATO are sending air defense systems to Ukraine - CNN
  • Ukraine has become part of the EU energy system
  • Almost a thousand Russian servicemen were taken prisoner
  • Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe
  • War with Russia: Zelensky introduced a nationwide minute of silence - every morning at 9 o'clock
  • The World Chess Olympiad was moved from Russia to India
  • The Russians want to abolish the Ukrainian language, literature and history in schools under occupation
  • Portugal will change the law that allowed Abramovich to obtain citizenship
  • 17,000 Ukrainian companies are owned by citizens of Russia or Belarus
  • Recent report from the General Staff: Russians fired on Odesa region and bombed their positions in Luhansk region
  • Sotheby's and Christie's are canceling Russian art auctions
  • The Czech Republic has already raised more than $ 30 million for weapons for Ukraine
  • Residents of Skadovsk went to a rally against the Russians: the Russian military opened fire
  • Switzerland has expanded sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine
  • The Russians killed 10 people standing in line for bread in Chernihiv
  • 310,000 Ukrainians have already returned from abroad, most of them men
  • The chess teams of Russia and Belarus have been suspended from participating in FIDE tournaments
  • The Russians released 6 employees and volunteers who were abducted from the Bucha City Council
  • AvtoVAZ raised prices for Lada for the second time in a month
  • The Russians kidnapped Mayor Skadovsk and his deputy. People went to the rally
  • Russian Russians killed a rescuer in Kyiv region
  • On the eve of the sanctions, Abramovich transferred his assets to a business partner
  • Germany's largest energy company E.ON has stopped buying new volumes of gas from Gazprom
  • VK Group wants to restart the ICQ messenger
  • The Russians fired missiles at a TV tower in Vinnytsia
  • S&P Dow Jones will exclude Russian and Belarusian issuers from bond indices
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