03/16/2023
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 5:56 am First meeting in Moscow since the beginning of the war: Assad expresses his support for Putin +++
Syrian ruler Assad supports Russian war against Ukraine During his first visit to Moscow since the beginning of the war, Syrian ruler Assad expressed his support for Putin. According to the Interfax news agency, Assad says in the Kremlin that he wants to use the moment to repeat the Syrian position in support of the “special operation”. In Russia, the war against Ukraine is called a special operation. Assad arrived in the Russian capital on Tuesday evening for an unannounced visit. Among other things, he thanked Russia for its help after the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey in February.
+++ 04:48 Strack-Zimmermann accuses the Kremlin of blackmail in the grain deal +++
The chairwoman of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, accuses Russia of blackmail in the grain agreement with Ukraine. “Russia now wants to blackmail the West according to the motto: If we don’t impose certain sanctions, if certain things aren’t relaxed, then we will prevent ships from sailing again,” says the FDP politician in the Podimo podcast “Status of Things”. . 190 million people depended on the agreement.
+++ 01:17 Selenskyj sees Russian attack power close to exhaustion +++
Thanks to Western help, Russia’s attack is on the verge of failure, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Arms deliveries and other assistance “are particularly important now that you feel that Russian aggression is approaching the moment when it can break,” says the 45-year-old in his daily video address. But constant pressure on Russia is necessary, he demands.
+++ 23:43 Russian Internet company Yandex has to leave the US stock exchange Nasdaq +++
The Russian Internet giant and Google competitor Yandex has to leave the US technology exchange Nasdaq. This is reported by Yandex. About a year ago, Yandex shares were suspended from trading in the US after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. Yandex wants to take action against the stock exchange’s decision because the company says it is not subject to Western sanctions related to the war.
+++ 22:17 Canada delivers artillery shells and rockets to Ukraine +++
Canada wants to give Ukraine 8,000 artillery shells and a dozen rockets. Canada will also supply 1,800 practice grenades for the Leopard 1 tank, the Department of Defense in Ottawa announced. Since the invasion began, Canada has provided Ukraine with arms worth $730 million (€690 million).
+++ 21:58 dead and injured in the shelling of Marhanez +++
At least two women have been killed by Russian shelling in the southern Ukrainian city of Marhanets. Three other women and one man were injured, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lyssak, said on Telegram. Seven apartment buildings and four individual houses were damaged by the shelling.
+++ 21:21 Austin and Schoigu called each other +++
According to Russian agency reports, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu spoke on the phone. The initiative came from the United States, news agencies report, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
+++ 20:43 US Chief of Staff: Do not want an armed conflict with Russia +++
US Chief of Staff Mark Milley has stressed that the United States does not want an escalation after the military incident with Russia over the Black Sea. “Incidents happen. And we clearly don’t want an armed conflict with Russia,” Milley said in Washington. He was responding to the question of whether the incident was an act of war.
+++ 19:57 Kremlin blames US military for drone incident +++
The Kremlin has blamed Washington for the crash of a US military drone over the Black Sea. “Perhaps those who are not entitled should not have flown there, then everything would have been clean,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Russian state television on Wednesday. Earlier, the United States had made allegations, among other things, that Russian fighter jets had dumped fuel on the drone in order to bring it down. According to the Pentagon, the drone was traveling in international airspace.
You can read earlier developments in the Ukraine war here.