UN names three million refugees, NATO convenes extraordinary summit on March 24

• On the twentieth day of the war in Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, the Russian army is advancing slowly and according to the general staff of the Ukrainian army “the enemy continues to launch attacks with missiles and bombs, artillery and tanks on infrastructure and civilian neighborhoods” in several large and medium-sized cities.
• Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, is subject to a curfew from 8 p.m. At dawn, several explosions rang out in Sviatochyn and Podil, residential areas of the city. Russian troops are said to be about 15 kilometers from the city center. Fighting has been going on for days in the northwestern suburbs, in the towns of Irpin, Hostomel or Boutcha. Maize “Kiev is still open to the south † the southern roads are passable, allowing the Kievans to flee and the capital to be supplied”, cAs reported by our special correspondent, Rémy Ourdan.
• Prime Ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia are on their way to Kiev to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and ensure that “unambiguous support” of the EU.
• In the south, the seat of Mariupol, a strategic port, has been underway for over a week. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) talks about living conditions “which are nothing short of a nightmare”† As the fighting continues north of the metropolis, Russian missiles pulverize civilian and military buildings. BEE Mykolaiv, a port city on the Black Sea, the shelling continues. Russian troops are approaching, but their target remains Odessa, to cut off Ukraine’s access to the sea. The Russian Ministry of Defense assured, according to several official Russian bodies, that the army around the region Kherson† It fell nearly ten days ago and is the only major city under Russian control.
• To the east, the russians are still trying to take Kharkiv, the second largest city in the country, according to the army staff. The ICRC reports that a convoy of 30 buses is ready to leave the city Sumy, a few miles away. Valentyn Reznitchenko, governor of the region of Dniproclaims that the Russian army destroyed the city’s airport during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
• the human losses remains uncertain. According to Sunday’s count by the UN, at least 636 civilians have been killed since the start of the war, underlining that this estimate would be lower than reality. Nearly 3 million people have fled the fighting and shelling, including 1.6 million children, and about 2 million people have been displaced. According to the Ukrainian president, nearly 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, while Russia released only one report on March 2. 498 soldiers killed.
• The fourth round of talks was resumed on Tuesday afternoon 15 March after a “technical interruption” announced by the head of Ukrainian negotiators, Mykhaïlo Podoliak.
• Marina Ovsiannikova, an employee of the powerful Russian public broadcaster Pervy Kanal, held up a sign during the live television news denouncing the attack on Ukraine and Russian propaganda. She could be prosecuted for having “the use of Russian armed forces discredited”†
• EU member states on Monday passed a fourth round of sanctions against Russian companies and oligarchs. 862 people and 53 Russian entities were already on this blacklist, which prohibits entry into the territory of the EU and allows the seizure of assets.

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Our live from Monday 14 March can be found here.