On Sunday morning, the Russian military launched an airstrike in Kiev and Lviv region in western Ukraine, prompting neighboring Poland to raise its military aircraft to protect its airspace near the border from possible missiles. On the other hand, Russian authorities said that the Ukrainians carried out a “massive” airstrike on the port city of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula overnight and claimed to have shot down at least ten missiles.

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08:14 Russia violated Polish airspace early Sunday by firing a cruise missile at targets in western Ukraine, the Polish military said.

“On March 24, at 04:23, the airspace of Poland was violated by one of the cruise missiles launched at night by long-range aircraft of the Russian Federation,” the Armed Forces reported on the socialization platform Kh.

“The object entered the airspace of Poland near the city of Oserdów (Lublin Voivodeship) and remained there for 39 seconds. During the entire flight, he was tracked by military radar systems.” (Reuters)

08:06 Russian air defense systems shot down more than 10 missiles over the Crimean port of Sevastopol late Saturday, a Russian official said.

“Our army repels a massive attack on Sevastopol,” Sevastopol Governor Mykhailo Razvozhaev said on the Telegram messaging app.

The woman received a shrapnel wound, infrastructure was damaged, including an office building and a gas pipeline, he added.

Sea and road connections between the Russian mainland and the Crimean peninsula were suspended for several hours, the regional transport department reported.

08:02 On Sunday morning, Russia launched missile strikes on Kiev and the Lviv region in western Ukraine, prompting the armed forces of neighboring Poland to activate its air force to secure the airspace near the border.

The mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko reported in the Telegram messenger that several explosions occurred in the Ukrainian capital after air defense systems were used to repel the attack.

Air defense forces of Ukraine destroyed about a dozen missiles fired by Russia over Kyiv and near the capital, Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv military administration, reported on Telegram. (Reuters)

A brief summary of recent events:

• On Saturday afternoon, Vladimir Putin made his first public comment on Friday’s attack in Moscow, which killed at least 133 people. The Russian president echoed other officials’ claims that the suspects were trying to flee to Ukraine and added that those who ordered the attack would be punished. punished
• Zelensky accuses Putin of trying to “accuse” Ukraine of an armed attack by Russia. “What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious, and Putin and other scoundrels are just trying to blame someone else,” the Ukrainian president said.
• One of Russia’s leading TV channels, NTV, released a fake video using AI-generated audio in an attempt to blame Ukraine for the attack.
• Donald Tusk hopes that the attack in Moscow will not become a “pretext” for the “escalation of violence”. The Polish prime minister strongly condemned Friday’s “brutal attack”, as did many Western leaders.
• Advisor to the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podoliak, again denied Kyiv’s involvement in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, saying that “any attempts to link Ukraine to the terrorist attack are absolutely unacceptable.”
• The Russian military has claimed control of a new village near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, marking a new offensive in a key area where Russia has been on the offensive for weeks.
• Russian forces are likely to continue offensive operations this spring in preparation for an effort expected in the summer of 2024, although Moscow’s military will likely find it difficult to launch a large-scale, coordinated offensive on multiple operational lines from Ukraine at the same time, the Institute for the Study of War said.

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