President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the appointment of Eduard Moskaliov as the new commander of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO), and its former head Oleksandr Pavliuk as the new head of Kyiv Regional Military Administration.
“In order to further strengthen the defense of Kyiv and Kyiv region, I appointed Oleksandr Pavliuk, Hero of Ukraine, lieutenant general, commander of the Joint Forces Operation, as the head of the regional military administration. Oleksiy Kuleba, the dismissed head of the regional administration, will help the military leadership. So the Kyiv direction and the situation in the region receive even more attention. Major General Eduard Moskaliov, a professional man, a patriotic man, has become the new JFO commander,” Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday.
Moskaliov previously served as deputy commander of the JFO.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that more than 100,000 people and organizations have expressed interest in supporting Ukrainians who left the country due to the Russian invasion through the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
“It’s fantastic that over 100,000 people and organisations have recorded their interest in supporting Ukrainians fleeing the war through the Homes for Ukraine scheme. Thank you to everyone across the country who has stepped up to offer their help so far,” Johnson wrote on Twitter.
The Verkhovna Rada has extended martial law in Ukraine until April 25, 2022, MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak (the Holos parliamentary faction) has said.
“Today, the parliament has gathered again at the Verkhovna Rada… a number of important… decisions have been made,” Zhelezniak wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
According to him, the extension of the martial law in Ukraine is stipulated in bill No. 7168 on the extension of the martial law in Ukraine, which was backed by 343 MPs.
“The period of martial law in Ukraine is extended from 05.30 on March 26, 2022 for a period of 30 days,” the bill says.
On February 24, after the Russian attack and the shelling of all regions, martial law was introduced in Ukraine.
The UK denies Russia and Belarus access to Most Favored Nation tariff for hundreds of their exports, imposes a 35% import duty on a number of Russian goods, including vodka, and, same as the European Union, bans exports of luxury goods to Russia, the British government said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The UK denies Russia and Belarus access to Most Favored Nation tariff for hundreds of their exports, depriving both nations key benefits of WTO membership,” the statement said.
Same as the EU, London bans “exports of luxury goods to Russia alongside its G7 allies,” the statement said. The ban applies to vehicles, clothes and art.
The British government also “published an initial list of goods worth GBP 900 million – including vodka – which will now face an additional 35 percent tariff, on top of current tariffs,” the statement said.
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Losses among civilians from February 24, 2022, when Russia started the war against Ukraine, amounted to 1,761 civilians (in the report a day earlier 1,663), including 636 dead (596), reports the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
“OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher, especially in Government-controlled territory and especially in recent days, as the receipt of information from some locations where intense hostilities have been going on has been delayed and many reports are still pending corroboration,” the UN said in the document.
According to him, this applies, for example, to Izium (Kharkiv region), and Mariupol and Volnovakha (Donetsk region) where there are allegations of hundreds of civilian casualties. These figures are being further corroborated and are not included in the above statistics.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes,” the UN said in the report.
According to confirmed UN data, some 127 men, some 91 women, ten boys and six girls killed, while the gender of 30 children and 372 adults has not yet been determined.
Among the 1,125 injured, some15 girls and four boys, as well as 43 children, whose gender has not yet been determined.
Compared to the previous day, according to the UN, three children were killed and five more were injured.
OHCHR said that in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as of midnight March 14, there were 122 (111) dead and 442 (431) injured in government-controlled territory, and 26 (26) dead and 130 (127) injured in territory controlled by self-proclaimed “republics.”
In other regions of Ukraine under government control (Kyiv, as well as in Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions), the UN recorded 488 (459) killed and 553 (509) wounded.
The summary also states that, according to the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Child Rehabilitation, as of 09:00 on March 14, 90 (85) children were killed and more than 100 children were injured in government-controlled territory.
OHCHR also notes the report of the National Police of Kharkiv region, according to which, as of 18:00 on 13 March, 212 civilians (205) had died in the region.
The increase in the figures in this report compared to the figures in the previous report should not be attributed only to new cases that occurred on March 13, since OHCHR also verified a number of cases that occurred in previous days during the day, according to the document.
Power supply has been restored to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) site after repeated damage from hostilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
“Ukraine has informed the IAEA that external power had again today been restored to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant after line had been again damaged by the occupying forces,” the IAEA said in a tweet on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
Other details are not reported.
The IAEA website notes that the “regulatory authority” informed the agency about the resumption of power supply to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant on the afternoon of March 14.
“The regulatory authority told the IAEA that at 13:10 CET external power had again been restored and that staff at the Chornobyl NPP had restarted operations to reconnect the NPP to the grid,” the agency said.
The city council of Slavutych, a satellite city of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, on its Facebook late on Monday evening announced that the city’s power supply had been resumed and the connection of residential buildings would be carried out gradually.
As reported with reference to NPC Ukrenergo, on March 14, Russian invaders again damaged the high-voltage line supplying power to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and Slavutych, after the company had repaired it.
The NPP site and Slavutych were de-energized on March 9 due to shelling of energy infrastructure by Russian troops.
