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Ukrainian Perspective: Combat and Humanitarian Roundup
2022-03-13
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Russian military continues to shell Ukrainian cities, while killing civilians, including children.

During the 17 days of the war, 82 children were killed by enemy shelling and bombing of the Russian military in Ukraine. On Saturday, March 12, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov announced this live on the air of a joint UA telethon.

"Unfortunately, we are losing our children. To date, 82 children have died in this war, they died from the bullets of the invaders sent here by Putin. This is a very big price for us because we are fighting for our independence," he said. Danilov.

At the same time, he expressed confidence that Ukraine would win this confrontation.

"I want to say that those people who behave impolitely will be very ashamed of them after we win," the NSDC secretary said.

Recall that the Russian military shot a column of women and children during the evacuation in the Kiev region. Seven people died.

Earlier, the SBU reported that the Russian military had been instructed to shoot civilians .

Russian invaders shell the Svyatogorsk Lavra
Several videos can be seen at the above link
[Korrespondent] There are many people from Svyatogorsk and other settlements in the Lavra.

Sources report that women and children could hide from the fire of the invaders in the Lavra, there are victims.

As clarified by the publication DonPress, the shelling took place the night before.

"There are many people from Svyatogorsk and other settlements in the Lavra who tried to hide from the shells and aircraft of the Russian invaders," the statement said.

Rescuers evacuated people to another relatively safe place.

We will remind, the Russian armies on the night of Saturday, March 12, fired at Nikolaev . As a result, eight people were injured, 167 houses were damaged, of which 11 were completely destroyed.

Vereshchuk: 9 "green corridors" out of 14 worked
[Korrespondent] In total, on March 12, approximately 13,000 civilians were taken to safe areas.

Vice Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk reported on the work of humanitarian corridors on March 12: out of 14 humanitarian corridors, nine worked. She said this during a briefing.

About 8,000 refugees left Sumy today. From Konotop - more than 3,000. No one left the Zaporozhye region - according to Vereshchuk, the Russians did not let the convoy through at the checkpoint in Vasilyevka.

The corridor from the Kiev region partially worked. It was not possible to take anyone out of Irpin and Vorzel, but about a thousand people were rescued from Bucha (including patients at a nursing home).

About 800 people were taken out of Gostomel, more than a thousand - from Nemeshaevo.

In general, about 13,000Ukrainians were evacuated today.

Tomorrow they plan to export from the same cities plus Mariupol - moreover, through the Russian-controlled Berdyansk.

Today, the Ukrainian side did not reach Mariupol, stuck at a Russian checkpoint.

Earlier it was reported that near Kiev the enemy shot a column of women and children : seven dead.

67 residents of Bucha were buried in a mass grave
[Korrespondent] The bodies were different, some were not even identified, the chief physician of the Irpin region said.

In Bucha, Kiev region, 67 civilians were buried in a mass grave. This was announced by the director of the Irpin City Center for Primary Health Care Andrei Levkivsky on Facebook.

The funeral took place on the territory of the city church. According to Levkivsky, the bodies were different, some were not even identified.

Earlier it was reported that the enemy fired on people during the evacuation from Bucha . As a result of another artillery attack in Bucha, residential buildings were destroyed, and a local resident received shrapnel wounds.

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