Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,122 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the important thing developments on day 1,122 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Right here is the roundup of key occasions on Saturday, March 22.

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Russian assaults killed two folks late on Friday in Ukraine’s southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia and three extra within the nation’s north and east, officers stated. Zaporizhia regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, stated 9 folks have been additionally injured within the assault and town had been struck greater than 10 instances.
CCTV footage recorded on Friday confirmed particles falling outdoors an condo constructing following a loud explosion in Russia’s southern metropolis of Rostov-on-Don. Rostov-on-Don’s appearing regional governor, Yury Slyusar, stated a Ukrainian drone struck an condo constructing on the seventeenth flooring, injuring two folks.
Assaults occurred within the southern Russian area of Voronezh, the place regional governor Alexander Gusev stated greater than 10 Ukrainian drones have been destroyed. No harm or casualties have been reported.

Ukraine’s public prosecutor’s workplace stated that Russia had dropped six glide bombs on the village of Krasnopillya in Ukraine’s Sumy area. In one other village, two folks have been injured.
Air raid warnings have been issued within the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and different elements of the nation, with Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko calling on folks to hunt shelter. In keeping with Klitschko, particles from a downed flying object hit a constructing within the capital, inflicting a fireplace.
Satellite tv for pc imagery confirmed craters and broken bunkers at Russia’s Engels strategic bomber base after Ukraine struck it with drones on Thursday. The assault triggered a serious blast and fireplace. The bottom in Engels hosts Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 nuclear-capable heavy strategic bombers.
Ukraine accused Russia of illegally pressuring Ukrainians in occupied territory to alter their authorized standing or depart and stated it will report the apply to the Worldwide Prison Courtroom.

Russia – which now controls almost a fifth of Ukraine’s territory – issued a presidential decree on Thursday saying Ukrainian residents residing “in Russia with out authorized grounds” ought to “regulate” their standing by September.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence accused Ukrainian forces of blowing up a fuel metering station close to the city of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk area, in what it described as a “deliberate provocation by the Kyiv regime … to discredit the US president’s peaceable initiatives”.
Ukraine’s army Basic Workers rejected Moscow’s accusations and blamed the Russian army for shelling the Sudzha fuel metering station as a part of Russia’s “discrediting marketing campaign”. The fuel metering station serves a serious pipeline that had pumped Russia’s pure fuel to Europe till provides have been halted final 12 months.

Talks between Ukrainian and United States representatives in Saudi Arabia on Monday will focus totally on technicalities surrounding a possible restricted ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, Ukrainian International Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi stated.
Tykhyi reiterated that Ukraine had agreed to the US proposal for a full ceasefire lasting 30 days and once more blamed Russia for the failure to implement any form of ceasefire thus far.
Ukrainian International Minister Andrii Sybiha is not going to journey to Saudi Arabia for the talks, however Defence Minister Rustem Umerov is about to take part.

Western army planning to implement a possible ceasefire in Ukraine is about to accentuate in London subsequent week as the UK stated “nothing is off the desk” over potential troop deployment for Kyiv. “1000’s” of personnel can be required to help any operation whether or not by “sea, on land or within the air” as allies put together “for all eventualities” amid diplomatic efforts to finish the battle, the UK stated.
Ukraine doesn’t think about a United Nations mission an alternative choice to the deployment of a contingent of international troops or safety ensures to finish the battle with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated. “With all due respect, the UN is not going to shield us from the occupation or [Russian President Valdimir] Putin’s want to return again,” Zelenskyy stated at a joint information convention with Czech President Petr Pavel in Kyiv.

North Korean chief Kim Jong Un expressed his unwavering help for Russia’s battle in Ukraine throughout a gathering with a prime Russian safety official in Pyongyang, North Korean state media stated.
Friday’s assembly between Kim and Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Safety Council secretary, adopted a South Korean intelligence evaluation in late February that North Korea had doubtless despatched extra troops to Russia after its forces suffered heavy casualties preventing within the Russia-Ukraine battle.
Shoigu conveyed a message from Putin, who prolonged his greetings to Kim and expressed gratitude for North Korea’s “solidarity with Russia’s place on all crucial geopolitical points, significantly on the Ukrainian concern”, in keeping with his televised feedback.

South Korea’s International Minister Cho Tae-yul stated army cooperation between North Korea and Russia should cease, and North Korea shouldn’t be rewarded for its wrongdoings in supporting the battle in Ukraine.
Japan’s international minister instructed his Chinese language and South Korean counterparts on Saturday that unilaterally altering the established order by power was unacceptable. “On the state of affairs in Ukraine, I emphasised the necessity for the worldwide group to unite in calling out that any try and unilaterally change the established order by power is not going to be tolerated anyplace on the planet,” Takeshi Iwaya instructed reporters following trilateral talks in Tokyo with Beijing and Seoul.
1000’s of individuals demonstrated towards Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday, charging that he has authoritarian tendencies and a pro-Russian stance.
Serbia’s deputy prime minister stated Russia’s spy providers had helped Belgrade authorities reply to months of antigovernment protests, remarks which critics stated revealed that the federal government had turn into depending on Moscow.
“I’m very grateful to Russia’s particular providers, which all the time help us in our struggle towards color revolutions, primarily with data,” Deputy Prime Minister Alexandar Vulin stated in an interview with Russia’s RIA state information company.

Russia criticised the European Union’s plans to considerably increase the bloc’s defences.
The UK authorities stated it had frozen greater than 25 billion kilos ($32bn) in Russian belongings because the begin of the battle in Ukraine three years in the past.

Germany’s Bundestag funds committee accredited $3.25bn in extra army assist for Ukraine in 2025, a transfer welcomed by President Zelenskyy, who thanked Germany for the newest multibillion-euro assist package deal.