Update on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this Sunday, March 20

Situation on the ground, international reactions, sanctions: the point of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

New use of hypersonic missiles

Russia claimed to have used it for the second consecutive day on Sunday. hypersonic missiles In Ukraine, this time to destroy a Ukrainian army fuel stockpile in the south of the country.

,A large stock of fuel was destroyed by ‘Kalibr’ cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea as well as hypersonic ballistic missiles fired by ‘Kinjal’ aeronautical system from Crimean airspace.“, the Defense Ministry said in a press release.

Zelensky addressed the Knesset

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has exposed his Jewish heritage in search of support against Russia’s invasion of his country, is scheduled to address the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Sunday by videoconference, a country that sits between Moscow and Kyiv. Trying to mediate. ,

According to a parliament spokesman, his speech in the Knesset at 6:00 pm (4:00 pm GMT) is awaited by the political class and population in a country that has more than one million citizens of the former USSR.

The bombing of an art school in Mariupoli

Local officials alleged on Sunday that Russian forces bombed an art school serving as a refuge for several hundred people in Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, saying civilians were trapped under rubble.

,Russian occupiers yesterday (Saturday) dropped bombs on the G12 art school on the left bank of Mariupol, where 400 Mariupol residents – women, children and the elderly – had taken refuge.“, declared the municipality of this port city, surrounded by the forces of Moscow.

,We know that the building was destroyed and that peaceful people are still under the rubble. Toll being clarified on number of victims”, she added in a statement on Telegram.

These statements could not immediately be independently verified.

The important iron and steel site in Mariupol was bombed

Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that the Azovstal steel and metallurgical plant in Mariupol, one of the largest in Europe, was heavily damaged by the shelling.

,One of the largest metallurgical factories in Europe has been destroyed. The economic loss for Ukraine is enormousSaid MP Lesia Vasilenko, who posted a video on her Twitter account showing thick columns of smoke rising from an industrial complex.

Another MP, Serhi Taruta, wrote on his Facebook page that the Russian army surrounded Mariupol, “practically destroyed the factory,

Mykolaiv. many raids on

According to the region’s governor, Russian air strikes followed each other at a high speed on Saturday on Mykolaiv, a town in southern Ukraine where dozens of soldiers were killed in an attack against army barracks.

,Less than 200 soldiers did not sleep in the barracks“Interrogated a soldier on the spot, according to which”At least 50 bodies were retrieved, Another soldier estimated that there could have been 100 deaths.

new australian sanctions

Australia on Sunday passed new sanctions against Russia by banning the export of alumina and bauxite, the two building blocks for aluminum production, and vowed to provide more weapons and humanitarian aid to Kyiv.

The ban on such exports is intended to harm aluminum production in Russia, which depends on Australia for 20% of its alumina.