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It’s Been a Month Since Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine (Online)424.03.2022, 8:19 49,126 (updated) Highlights of the 29th day of the war.Today is precisely one month since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine. The occupiers during this time have not accomplished the tasks of reaching the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, encircling the capital and establishing control over left-bank Ukraine, but they have not stopped trying to resume offensives to seize Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol.By the 29th day of the war, the Ukrainian military had already shot down over a hundred Russian aircraft. In total, Russia has lost around 15600 occupiers. In the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region alone, 400 Russian servicemen were eliminated during the latest fighting.To the south, Russian troops are trying to bypass Mykolayiv to seize Odessa.The Charter97.org website is broadcasting online the 29th day of the war. You can see what was happening in Ukraine on March 23 in our previous online broadcast.Special broadcast on Ukraine 24 TV channel10:17 Russian billionaire Vasily Melnikov and his family were found dead in Nizhny Novgorod. According to investigators, the director of a large medical company, Medstom, killed his wife and children and then committed suicide. The business of the head of a large medical company was on the verge of collapse due to sanctions.10:14 How the elimination of enemy manpower looks at night: Ukrainians throw explosives at the occupier's infantry, Russian soldiers scatter.10:10 The large landing ship Orsk of the occupier's army has been destroyed near the port of Berdyansk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said. Russia has initiated the withdrawal of its ships from the port.10:01 Ukrainian defenders show off enemy equipment captured in the Chernihiv region.09:59 An environmental disaster is emerging in Ukraine because of the murdered Russian soldiers. Russia does not take away the bodies of the occupiers, which poses a big threat to Ukraine's ecology.09:53 China refuses to transit cargo through Russia. Container carriers are sending cargo by sea, avoiding transit through Russia and Belarus by any means. While new routes by sea increase costs and threaten to worsen chaos in the global supply chain, companies do not risk using Russian territory for transit fearing the risks of being hit by sanctions.09:46 Reuters removes Russian propaganda resource TASS from its content market due to biased coverage of war in Ukraine.09:45 Two yachts associated with sanctioned Russian billionaire Alexei Kuzmichev have been detained in France, Le Figaro and Liberation report. The yachts La Petite Ourse and La Grande Ourse are valued at €20 million and €50 million respectively. The hunt for the assets of Putin's oligarchs continues.09:43 A month ago, Russia attacked Ukraine. The AFU General Staff shows what has changed since then.09:41 Western Union, in line with earlier decision, stops money transfers in Russia and Belarus from 24 March.09:40 How Mariupol looks after almost a month of war.09:39 Ukrainian Stugna smashes a Russian tank to pieces. The occupier's equipment is useless against attacks of the AFU.09:37 Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Alexei Danilov revealed disagreements in the entourage of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In his opinion, the absence of Shoigu and other security officials may indicate that they are "squabbling". The FSS is now shifting responsibility to the military, and the latter to other structures.09:34 The US has signed a pact with the UK that involves the elimination of duties on trade in steel, iron and aluminium. The measure is driven by the need to replace Russian raw materials on the world's leading markets.09:33 Azov and the AFU have retaliated against the occupiers near Mariupol. 09:31 US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield commented on the Russian resolution in the UNSC."Russia had the audacity to put forward a resolution asking the international community to solve a humanitarian crisis that it itself created. This resolution does not mention Russia's role as the sole cause of this crisis. That is why we will not be part of this game," said the US ambassador to the UN.09:29 AFU air defence reports the destruction of 11 enemy air targets on 23 March 2022. According to the statement, 7 aircraft, 1 helicopter, 1 drone, 2 cruise missiles were destroyed.09:24 There were explosions and fires at the port of temporarily occupied Berdyansk. Russian landing ships urgently left the port. 09:20 For 29 days, Ukraine has been heroically repulsing the Russian occupiers' attack along the entire front line. Military expert Oleg Zhdanov explains what helps the AFU in the war against the Russian Federation:"...When the population, the people, the nation is at war, it is impossible to defeat it. When every bush, every window is shooting at the enemy, the enemy will never succeed in such a country."09:15 US The Times reports that it has a reliable source from the Russian Federal Security Service who claims that repressive units will soon be operating in Kherson to eliminate the pro-Ukrainian population. 09:13 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has addressed the Ukrainian people.09:07 The Insider: Putin's heiresses break up with their husbands because of sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughter Maria Vorontsova is divorcing her husband, Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen. The war criminal's daughters have become "toxic".08:57 Ukrainian farmers have already become part of history. They continue heroically "demilitarizing" the army of the Russian occupiers.08:52 Russia launches tours to Uzbekistan for Visa and Mastercard. The cost of the tour to Tashkent is 23,000 rubles per person for two nights. The price includes transfer, hotel, a representative from the company during the visit to the bank, preliminary preparation of documents to the bank, courier services and medical insurance.08:48 The Centre for Countering Misinformation under the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine reports: the Kremlin media continue to publish a fictitious "map of achievements" of Russian occupiers in Ukraine, where almost half of our country is marked as occupied or blocked by Russian perpetrators.In fact, the enemy is not conducting a general offensive on the territory of our state. As we can see on the map reconstructed by US Cyber Center researcher Nathan Ruser, the enemy's advance is only in localized areas. 08:45 The Polish Sejm has declared Putin a war criminal."The Sejm of the Republic of Poland strongly condemns the acts of ongoing violence, war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of genocide, systemic violations of human rights and other criminal violations of international law committed on the territory of sovereign Ukraine by the armed forces of the Russian Federation together with its allies under the orders of military commanders Vladimir Putin," the resolution reads.The Polish Sejm has also called on all countries that support Ukraine's territorial integrity to support the initiation and conduct of trials before the International Court of Justice and the international criminal court to hold Putin, members of the Russian Security Council and commanders of the Russian Armed Forces responsible for these crimes.08:41 1,100 rockets hit Ukrainian cities in 22 days. This is 11 times more than the bombing of Syria in 5 years. 08:39 Ukraine has made it clear to Belarus: if its troops enter our territory and start fighting, they will be destroyed just as mercilessly as Russian troops. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba made this statement during a TV marathon. According to him, Kyiv has information that the Belarusian army is unwilling and unprepared to fight.08:36 Ukrainian artillery is in action. In the north of the Kyiv region, the AFU destroyed the positions of the Russian occupiers.08:33 The AFU and the territorial defence control 80% of Irpen. However, there are many enemy sabotage groups and marauders in the city, and the occupiers are constantly shelling Irpen with mortars and Grad systems. "They have already made 20 salvos of 10 clusters on the city," said Irpen Mayor Oleksandr Markushin.08:31 Mayor of New York has raised a Ukrainian flag in the city centre. According to city officials, the flag will remain until Ukraine wins the war.08:29 AFU General Staff, information as of the morning of 24 March:- A grouping of defence forces continues to conduct a defensive operation in the eastern, south-eastern and north-eastern directions.The enemy has not succeeded in any of them.- Groupings of troops are holding back the enemy in these directions, conducting a stabilization operation and carrying out territorial defence tasks.- The enemy aviation continues active operations, conducting air strikes. During the last day, there were more than 250 sorties (60 more than on March 22). Military and civilian infrastructure in the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions remain the main targets of the enemy.- A group of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repels concentrated enemy missile and aviation strikes and air attacks and provides air control over important facilities in Ukraine and troop formations. Over the previous day, 11 enemy air targets (7 aircraft, 1 UAV, 1 helicopter and 2 cruise missiles) have been hit. Information about their final destruction is being updated.- In the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region, in connection with peaceful protests against the occupation, the enemy resorts to terrorizing the local population and actively uses Rosgvardia units to prevent the specified acts of civil disobedience to the occupation authorities.- The enemy continues to lose manpower and equipment in all directions. Total resistance by the Ukrainian people is under way.08:26 Most of the fires near the Chernobyl NPP have been extinguished. This was announced by acting Minister of Environmental Protection
