Ukraine declared on Monday March 18 that it had shot down 17 combat drones out of a total of 22 drones and seven missiles launched by Russia during the night, and reported the intensification of Russian bombings on its border region of Sumy, in the northeast. During the night from Sunday to Monday, Russia fired five S-300/S-400 missiles at the Kharkiv border region (east), two Kh-59 cruise missiles at the Sumy region (northeast) and 22 Shahed-type explosive drones, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram. Follow our live stream.
Vladimir Putin says Russian forces have the advantage on the front. “Overall, the initiative lies entirely with the Russian armed forces, and in some areas our men are mowing down the enemy”, declared the Russian president after his re-election for a fifth term at the head of Russia. Vladimir Putin has once again promised that Moscow’s objectives would be “achieved”.
Vladimir Putin is a man “drunk with power”, reacts Volodymr Zelensky. “It is clear to everyone that this character, as has happened so often in history, is simply drunk with power and is doing everything he can to reign eternally”the Ukrainian president reacted on Sunday in a message published on social networksbelieving that the Russian presidential election had not “no legitimacy”.
A military base in Transnistria hit by an explosive drone. Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist region of Moldova, said on Sunday that an explosive drone, sent from neighboring Ukraine, had struck a military base in its capital, Tiraspol. Russia has supported this territory bordering Ukraine since the 1990s. But kyiv accuses Moscow of being in charge. “Russia carried out a provocation in Transnistria with a kamikaze drone attack on a military unit,” assured the Ukrainian Security Council. Moldova, for its part, has not confirmed “no attack”.