EXTRAORDINARY ONLINE Huge explosion in Berdyansk port: Reports of shelling victims in Luhansk region – Topky.sk

Live from Ukraine The streets of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are struggling these days ONLINE 10:10 The North Atlantic Alliance and the EU are more united than ever before. This was announced on Wednesday by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after meetings in Brussels with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the Head of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Metsolova. 09:54 The North Atlantic Alliance should redouble its efforts to end the Russian war in Ukraine. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced this on Thursday after arriving at an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels. “I think we need to redouble our efforts. Putin cannot win this war,” Kallas said, referring to the Russian president. According to her, the head of the Kremlin is taking steps “to be afraid” and to “discourage us from further assistance to Ukraine.” However, according to the prime minister, the West should not fall into this trap. “We have to stop that war criminal,” Kallas added. 09:53 Any use of chemical weapons by Russia in its war in Ukraine could cause contamination in the territory of the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Thursday. “Any use of chemical weapons would fundamentally change the nature of the conflict – it would be a glaring violation of international law and would have far-reaching and serious consequences,” Stoltenberg told NATO’s special leaders’ summit in Brussels. 09:42 Russian night shelling in the Luhansk region killed 4 people. According to local governor Serhiy Haidaj, Russian forces attacked cities in the Luhansk region with rockets and phosphorus bombs, which the Geneva Conventions forbid using against civilians. 09:40 Since February 24, 87 residential buildings have been damaged in Kiev. According to the Kiev state administration, Russian attacks have damaged 10 private homes, 12 schools and 6 kindergartens in the capital of Ukraine since the beginning of the large-scale invasion. 09:35 Since the beginning of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 294 civilians, including 15 children, have been killed in the northeastern city of Kharkov alone, the local police said on the social network Telegram on Thursday. 09:01 Britain and its allies will increase economic pressure on Russia and are now looking into whether more can be done to prevent Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin from accessing his gold reserves. This was stated on Thursday by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson before leaving for the extraordinary summit of the North Atlantic Alliance in Brussels. The Guardian reported. Johnson told LBC Radio that Putin had already taken all the steps in Ukraine and should stand before the International Criminal Court (ICC). 08:49 The Russian army has retreated more than 30 kilometers east of the capital Kiev in the past 24 hours and has begun to form defensive positions on several fronts in Ukraine, an unnamed senior US Department of Defense official said on Wednesday. The AFP agency informed about it. “The Ukrainians have managed to push the Russians 55 kilometers east and northeast of Kiev,” an unnamed Pentagon source said. 08:17 Russia’s Federal Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Media Oversight Service (Roskomnadzor) has restricted access to the Internet news service Google News, which it accuses of providing access to “false” information about the Russian military offensive in Ukraine. According to AFP, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. 08:03 The member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance should, at an extraordinary summit in Brussels on Thursday, withdraw the strengthening of NATO’s position on its Eastern wing in all areas of activity. This was stated on Wednesday by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Slovakia is represented by President Zuzana Čaputová. 08:01 The Ukrainian Navy has announced that a large landing craft of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed in the port of Berdyansk. 07:42 Russia will continue to limit its civil aviation at the border with the war zone in Ukraine. The closure of 11 airports in the region, effective from February 24, was extended until April 1, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviacija) said on Thursday. 07:40 According to Ukrainian Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets, most of the fires in the Chernobyl Forbidden Zone were under control. The strelets also said in a television interview on March 24 that more than 30 fires had been recorded in the area in the last two weeks. 07:33 The UN General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a resolution backed by more than 90 countries, accusing Russia of escalating the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and calling for an immediate end to Russian hostilities, especially attacks on civilians and their homes, schools and hospitals. Russia has condemned the resolution, calling it “anti-Russian” and accusing its supporters that they are not really bothered by the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, but want to politicize this aid. 07:20 This is what the city of Mariupol looks like after a month of war. 07:13 Moment of explosion in the port of Berdyansk. 07:11 The port of Berdyansk is on fire. The Russian occupiers probably blew up the fuel tanks.