Russia provokes confrontation with NATO. On March 21, at 13:15 local time, a Russian bomber flew over Ukraine’s Volyn area and entered Poland’s airspace, editor-in-chief of Censor.net Yuriy Butusov said. The incident follows Poland’s announcement of a proposal for a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
Missile strike on Kyiv’s Podil district kills eight. Russia’s missile strike destroyed a shopping mall in Kyiv, blew out windows in next-door residential houses, and damaged the vehicles parked nearby.
Russia’s attack on Sumy causes ammonia leak. There is an ammonia leak at the Sumykhimprom chemicals plant on the outskirts of Sumy. The area within a 2.5 kilometer radius is dangerous, said head of the Sumy regional military administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi. As ammonia is lighter than air, he called to use shelters, basements, and lower floors for protection.
Russia kills and abducts Ukrainian children. At least 115 children were killed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, more than 140 were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said. The area with the highest children’s death toll – 58 is Kyiv region.
On March 19, the Russian troops illegally took 2,389 children from temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Russia, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Forced transfer of civilians, particularly children to the aggressor state is seen as abduction. It violates the international humanitarian law.
Russia destroys cities and kills civilians, takes parental care away from children, and further endangers children’s lives in Russia.
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