Mariupol
The Ukrainian documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" won the Oscar for Best Feature Documentary, exposing the truth about Russia's crimes and destroying its propaganda, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine said.
Three civilians were killed and 12 injured as a result of Russian shelling of Donetsk region on March 10.
Mstislav Chernov's Ukrainian documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, filmed during the siege of Mariupol in March 2022, won the Best Feature Documentary at the Academy Awards.
In time of war, culture and cultural people who tell about Ukraine, preserve memory and revive what gives people strength are even more important than in peacetime, President Zelensky said at the Taras Shevchenko National Prize ceremony.
President Zelenskyy has approved the list of winners of the prestigious Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine for 2024, recognizing artists, poets, journalists, composers, and theater figures for their outstanding contribution to the development of culture.
At the beginning of the full-scale war, some countries were reluctant to sell ammunition to Ukraine because they feared it would lose, the expert points out.
Russians sent trucks with artillery and anti-drone equipment to the northwest of Mariupol and Rozivka in Zaporizhzhia region.
Enemy air defense was operating in the Mariupol district of Donetsk region.
On March 7, Russian troops injured 9 civilians in different localities of Donetsk region, including Toretsk, Kostiantynivka, Dovha Balka, Myrnohrad, Novohrodivka and Shakhove.
On March 9, demonstrations will be held in Berlin and Hamburg to demand the return of Ukrainian military and civilian prisoners held by Russia, as well as compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners.
An exhibition of more than 30 sculptures by Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Zhyvotkov dedicated to events and places such as Bucha, Mariupol, Irpin, Kherson, and Vinnytsia will open in Padua, Italy, on March 7.
Russian occupants have intensified military activities in the Mariupol area, moving engineering units, fuel tankers and at least five tanks on railway platforms from Berdiansk to Novoazovsk.
The mayor's advisor said that enemy air defense systems were operating from the port of Mariupol, targeting unknown objects moving in the direction of Rostov-on-Don.
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian military killed one resident of Oleksandropol, Donetsk region, and wounded another civilian.
Partisans reported that Russian troops are using the ruins of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol to deploy combat aircraft.
The head and staff of the Olenivska colony in Donetsk region were served with a notice of suspicion for torturing a captured Ukrainian policeman.
It was observed that Russian planes became more active in the Mariupol area and moved northeast toward the Volnovakha district, after which they attacked in the Zaporizhzhia direction and returned.
Over the past day, Russian troops wounded 19 residents of Donetsk region: 16 in Kurakhove and 3 in Pokrovsk.
Rescuers found the body of a 10-year-old boy under the rubble in Odesa.
Part of the Tavrida highway is blocked after a nighttime attack on an oil depot in Russian-occupied Feodosia, Crimea.
The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force showed a video of a downed Russian Su-34 fighter jet that was shot down on March 1, 2024.
An ammunition depot of the Russian occupiers in the northwest of Mariupol was destroyed by explosions, according to an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol.
Explosions have been heard in the temporarily occupied Mariupol, an advisor to the mayor said.
Today, the Ukrainian military destroyed two more Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers in the Avdiivka and Mariupol sectors.
According to the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, on February 27, Russian occupants killed 1 resident of Donetsk region in Hirnyk and wounded 5 others in the region.
Russia is creating problems in the global arms market and influencing countries with Soviet-style weapons to prevent Ukraine from obtaining the necessary ammunition.
Border guards detained seven men who were trying to cross the Tisa River into Romania without authorization.
President Zelenskyy awarded the servicemen who defended Antonov Airport at the beginning of the russian invasion with state awards, including the title of Hero of Ukraine.
On the morning of February 24, 2022, some Ukrainians woke up to shots and the roar of tanks, others to explosions and air raid sirens, and others were woken up by calls and messages: war had broken out.
President Zelenskyy said that films made during the Russian-Ukrainian war ensure that the world will never forget the tragedies of Bucha and Mariupol, and that cinema will make Ukraine's heroism legendary.