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Russian rockets hit army barracks in southern Ukraine, dozens killed: 10 points

March 20, 2022
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During a rescue operation on Saturday, eyewitnesses told AFP that dozens of soldiers were killed in an attack by Russian troops at a Ukrainian military barracks in Russia’s southern city of Mykolaiv.

Here are the top 10 updates to this big story

  1. “No less than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks” when Russian troops attacked early Friday, 22-year-old Maxim, a Ukrainian soldier on the ground, told AFP without giving his last name. “At least 50 bodies have been recovered, but we don’t know how many others are under the rubble,” he said. Another soldier estimated that around 100 people could have been killed in the bombing. Officials have not yet released an official death count.

  2. Russia on Friday used its latest Kinzel hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine to destroy an arms storage site in the country’s west, the Defense Ministry said. “The Kinzal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Delyatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

  3. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow, saying Russia would do otherwise It takes generations to recover from losses during the war. “The time has come for Ukraine to restore territorial integrity and justice. Otherwise, Russia’s loss will be such that it will take you many generations to recover,” Zelensky said.

  4. Deputy Mayor Anatoly Kurtiev said the Ukrainian military imposed a 38-hour curfew in the southern city of Zaporizhzhya, starting at 1400 GMT on Saturday and ending early on Monday.

  5. US President Joe Biden given to Chinese leader The White House said Beijing showed no signs of engaging in Western condemnation of the invasion, as Xi Jinping “consequences” any support for Russia in the war against Ukraine.

  6. Ukraine’s defense ministry said it had “temporarily” lost access to the Azov Sea as invading Russian forces tightened their hold around Mariupol, a major sea port. “The occupied Donetsk operations have been partially successful in the district, temporarily denying Ukraine access to the Azov Sea,” Ukraine’s defense ministry said in a statement.

  7. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kyiv of a “war crime” in a call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, saying Moscow is doing “everything possible” to avoid civilian casualties in Ukraine. Mr Macron Expresses “Extreme Concern” On the fate of Mariupol, urged to “remove the siege and humanitarian access” to the city.

  8. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other top world lenders warned of a “widespread” economic fallout from the Ukraine war and expressed “horrific” at the “devastating human devastation”.

  9. The three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania announced the expulsion of a total of 10 Russian diplomats over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

  10. more than 3.25 million refugees have fled Ukraine Since the Russian invasion, the United Nations said, with more than two million crossing the border into Poland.