Missiles over Belgorod, a dozen Leopard 2s from Sweden, and children in Bakhmut: last night's highlights
Residents of Belgorod, Russia, heard explosions, and local authorities report downed missiles; Sweden confirms its decision to transfer 10 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine; 33 children remain under fire in Bakhmut. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
Missiles shot down over Belgorod
On the night of March 16, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Belgorod region of Russia, said that air defense forces shot down two missiles over Belgorod.
According to one of the residents, smoke briefly rose near the railway station after a strong explosion near the thermal power plant. One of the streets where the downed missile allegedly landed was also blocked.
Leopard 2 from Sweden
Following the results of Ramstein 10, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that Sweden had officially announced its intention to supply 10 Leopard tanks. And Canada has agreed to provide Ukraine with artillery and air defense ammunition.
In addition, in the coming weeks, Canada will transfer 8 main battle tanks Leopard 2 to Ukraine and an armored recovery vehicle, auxiliary equipment, and ammunition.
33 children remain in Bakhmut
The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said that less than 3,000 residents, including 33 children, remain in Bakhmut.
Kirilenko noted that these people “flatly refuse to evacuate”.
Surgeons left an instrument in the body of a woman from Vinnytsia
The Vinnytsia Court of Appeal ordered the Military Medical Center of the Central Region to pay 400 thousand hryvnias in compensation to a patient, in whose body doctors left a surgical instrument.
Doctors left a nearly 30-centimeter-long, 300-gram Reverend spatula in the woman's body during a surgery in 2005. She lived with the surgical instrument in her abdominal cavity for almost a decade and a half.
Other news from the night:
- International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have discovered the disappearance of approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium from a facility in Libya that is not under government control.
- Analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War write that the overall pace of Russian operations along the entire front line in Ukraine seems to have slowed down compared to previous weeks, and the Wagner PMC offensive on Bakhmut is nearing its culmination.
- The US space agency NASA has presented a prototype of the spacesuit that will be worn by astronauts to return to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years as part of the Artemis III mission.
- Israel has approved export licenses for possible sale for two of its companies developing counter-drone systems. These systems could help Ukraine counter Iranian drones.
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