Battles in the Avdeevsky and Novopavlovsky directions, 67 military clashes, enemy shelling, a new aid package from Germany, preparations for the Peace Summit in Switzerland. How will the 755th day of a full-scale war be remembered?
In two In 2018, states from the Ukraine Defense Contact Group collected $88 billion for military support for our country, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced following the results of the 20th meeting of the group.
Now the partners are focused on two areas: meeting the immediate needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and helping for the long term.
According to Austin, the greatest efforts have been made by 15 US allies, which give more to Kyiv than Washington in calculation to own GDP. in Berlin – in our news.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 67 military clashes took place during the day.
In total, the enemy launched 3 missile and 62 air strikes, and carried out 64 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. Russian terrorist attacks have unfortunately resulted in civilian deaths and injuries. Multi-storey and private houses were destroyed and damaged.
In the Avdeevsky direction, our defenders repelled 11 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Berdich, Orlovka, Tonechko, Pervomaiskoye, Nevelskoye, Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Urozhaynoye, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 18 times to break through the defenses of our troops.
More details about the operational situation as of 18:00 March 19 – in our news.
Russian soldiers shot three civilians in the occupied village of Kokhany, Kherson region, writes ASTRA. “The corpses of three residents of the village of Kokhany were discovered after the sound of shooting on March 15. The bodies of men with gunshot wounds to the head were found by neighbors in the hallway of one of the houses,” the message says.
The dead civilians were men from surnames Karpus, Golenkov and Voznov. Later, servicemen from military unit 11843, 36-year-old Alexei Bulelin and 37-year-old Muntyan Tarasenko, were detained on suspicion of murder. Both are from the Volgograd region.
As it turned out, Bulelin stole a car back in 2010 and received a suspended sentence. Tarasenko, according to the leaked databases, was previously convicted of violent acts.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced a new package of assistance to Ukraine with ammunition. He said this before the meeting in the Ramstein format to journalists from Radio Liberty.
The minister noted that there is progress in the direction of ammunition. In particular, thanks to the initiative of the Czech Republic. “But we will also be able to announce another package here today,” Pistorius said.
According to the Minister of Defense, the new aid package will include 10 thousand artillery shells, 100 units of armored vehicles for infantry and 100 units of transport vehicles. There is “no news” regarding long-range Taurus missiles, which Germany refuses to provide to Ukraine.
More than 100 countries should take part in the August summit on the Ukrainian peace formula, which will soon be held in Switzerland.
Prime Minister Denis Shmigal announced this during a briefing in Luxembourg. He did not announce the dates of the event.
“We would like all countries of the world to participate in the peace forum. I am confident that Luxembourg will make a significant contribution to this important forum, which will bring us closer to a fair peace and global security,” he said.
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