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Russia is trying to split Ukraine in two to create a Moscow-controlled area after it failed to occupy the entire country, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
“In fact, this is an attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine,” Kyrylo Budanov said, adding that Ukraine would soon start a guerrilla war in the Russian-occupied territories.
Russian forces appear to be concentrating their efforts to encircle Ukrainian forces in separatist areas in the east of the country, the Pentagon said in its latest intelligence report on the war in Ukraine.
He also said that Russian forces were coming from the direction of Kharkov in the north and Mariupol in the south.
However, the battlefield across northern Ukraine “remains largely static, with local Ukrainian counterattacks hampering Russian efforts to reorganize its forces.”
Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 27 March 2022
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Russia has hit military targets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv with high-precision cruise missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said today.
Russia struck a fuel depot used by Ukrainian forces near Lviv with long-range missiles and used cruise missiles to hit a factory in the city used to repair anti-aircraft systems, radar stations and tanks for the ministry, the ministry said.
“The armed forces of the Russian Federation are continuing their offensive operations as part of the special military operation,” the ministry said in a statement.
Russia has used long-range naval missiles to destroy an arsenal of S-300 missiles and BUK anti-aircraft missile systems near Kyiv, the ministry said. Russian forces also destroyed a number of drones, he said.
The governor of Lviv region says a man has been arrested on suspicion of espionage at the site of one of two rocket attacks that struck the city on Saturday.
Maksym Kozytskyy said that the police found that the man had recorded a rocket that was flying towards the target and hit him. Police also found photos of checkpoints in the area on his phone, which Kozytskyy said were sent to two Russian telephone numbers.
A nuclear research facility was hit in Kharkov
Ukraine’s nuclear service says a nuclear test facility in Kharkov has again been bombed by Russia and the fighting makes it impossible to assess the damage, according to the Associated Press.
Ukrainian authorities have previously said that the Russian bombing caused damage to buildings in the Kharkov facility, but there was no release of radioactivity. The newly built facility is intended for the research and production of radioisotopes for medical and industrial needs. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said that the stock of radioactive material is too low, reducing the risks of releasing radioactivity.
Kharkiv has been besieged by Russian forces since the beginning of the invasion and has been repeatedly bombed by homes and critical infrastructure.
Agreement for two humanitarian corridors
Ukraine and Russia have agreed on two “humanitarian corridors” to evacuate civilians from the front lines today, according to Reuters.
Among them are people allowed to leave the southern city of Mariupol in private cars, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
Ukrainian official: Russia has begun destroying Ukrainian fuel and food depots
Russia has begun destroying Ukrainian fuel and food depots, which means the government will have to deplete stocks of both in the near future, Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Vadim Denishenko said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Speaking on local television, Denishenko also said that Russia was bringing forces to the Ukrainian border in rotation and could make new efforts to invade Ukraine. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation.”
Twelve journalists have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion
Twelve journalists have lost their lives in Ukraine since the start of the war, the country’s attorney general Irina Venediktova said in a Facebook post late Saturday night. At least ten journalists were injured, he added.
“Telling the world the truth about Putin’s attack is deadly – 12 journalists have been killed so far in this war,” he wrote.
According to Venediktova, the journalists were killed by Russian fire.
The German News Agency notes that it is not able to verify the exact number of dead journalists in Ukraine.
According to reports, so far at least 56 media representatives have been attacked in Ukraine, including 15 foreign nationals.
Venediktova said foreign journalists who had been attacked came from Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, among others. An American, an Irishman and a Russian journalist have been killed.
Kyiv asks Red Cross not to open office in Russian city of Rostov
Ukraine has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open an office in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, saying it would legitimize Moscow’s “humanitarian corridors” and the kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainians.
The ICRC chief said on Thursday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that an agreement between the Russian and Ukrainian armies would have to be reached before civilians could normally withdraw from war-torn Ukraine.
Russian media have reported that Red Cross chief Peter Maurer has asked Russia to facilitate the opening of a Red Cross office in Rostov-on-Don.
Mikhail Radutsky, head of the public health committee in the Ukrainian parliament, called on the Red Cross to change its plans.
“The Commission calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross not to legalize ‘humanitarian corridors’ in the territory of the Russian Federation and not to support the abduction of Ukrainians and its forced deportations,” Radutsky said in a statement.
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