Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 391

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 391st day, we take a look at the primary growths.

Right here is the situation as it depends on Tuesday, March 21, 2023:

• Ukraine reported the destruction of “numerous” Russian cruise missiles as they were being moved by rail to Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea. The Kalibr cruise missiles were ruined by an explosion, its military said, without clearly claiming Ukraine was responsible.
• Intense battling continues for control of the centre of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
• The eastern town of Avdiivka might quickly end up being a “2nd Bakhmut” with the threat of being encircled, the Ukrainian military claimed.
• A Russian Su-35 combat plane was scrambled over the Baltic Sea after 2 American strategic bombers flew towards the Russian border, the protection ministry claimed.
• The head of Russia’s Wagner Group of hirelings, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his forces regulate 70 percent of Bakhmut.
  Prigozhin informed Protection Preacher Sergey Shoigu in a letter the Ukrainian military was intending an unavoidable offensive targeted at cutting off his Wagner forces from the main body of Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine.
• The United States introduced it will send out Ukraine $350m in tools as well as devices as strong battles with Russian pressures proceed for control of Bakhmut.
• Ukraine’s 2023 grain harvest is likely to be up to 44.3 million tonnes from 53.1 million in 2022 as less crops are sown as a result of the Russian invasion, according to a forecast by the Ukrainian farming ministry.

Diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin held his Chinese counterpart and “bosom friend” Xi Jinping for supper at the Kremlin on Monday, with the two men holding several hours of informal talks.
• China has actually supplied a 12-point Ukraine peace proposal, and Putin told Xi that Russia was ‘open up to negotiations’ about Ukraine.
• Ukrainian international ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko has actually stated Kyiv expected China to utilize its influence on Russia to end the war.
• Ukraine, the United Kingdom as well as the USA have actually prompted Xi to push Putin on ending the war.
• Russia has said it had actually opened an instance against the International Bad Guy Court (ICC) district attorney and courts who issued the apprehension warrant versus Putin, claiming it signified the “clear hostility” for Russia and also Putin.
• Officials claim a global conference in London raised $4.9 m to sustain the ICC in its investigations into claimed war crimes in Ukraine.
• ICC Principal District attorney Karim Khan informed the seminar the problem of the arrest warrants was “really unfortunate” and “really sombre,” noting it was the very first time such action had been taken against a long-term participant of the UN Security Council.

Weapons

• European Union countries have actually consented to provide 1 million weapons shells to Ukraine over the following year, the Estonian Protection Priest Hanno Pevkur claimed.
• Norway said it had provided 8 Leopard 2 storage tanks to Ukraine.
• Beijing stated it was the United States rather than China that was supplying weapons to the Ukrainian battleground, responding to records that Russia had used Chinese ammo in Ukraine.