Russian digest- 3/19
Top daily stories I'm keeping an eye on
Over the past week, thousands of residents have been moved to Russia, Mariupol city council reported. The civilians were allegedly taken to camps where Russian occupiers checked their phones and documents and forcibly moved some of them to remote cities in Russia via Kyiv Independent
US officials confirmed to CNN that Russia launched hypersonic missiles against Ukraine last week, the first known use of such missiles in combat. The US was able to track the launches in real-time, the sources said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry continues to lay out false flag operations for chemical weapons use in Ukraine
New satellite imagery collected Saturday morning shows the damage done to Ukraine’s stately Mariupol Drama Theater during Russian shelling this week. The image, which was provided to The Washington Post by Maxar Technologies, shows more than half the roof collapsed. The remaining portion is mangled, buckling inward. Rubble is visible on both sides of the building, and portions of the interior appear to be burned via Washington Post
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine stopped any activity of a number of political parties, including the Opposition Platform - For Life, during the martial law in the country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
"The National Security and Defense Council decided, given the full-scale war and the ties of some political structures with this state, to suspend any activity of a number of political parties for the period of martial law," UNIAN quoted Zelensky as saying.
We are talking about the "Opposition Platform - For Life" (OPZZH) of Viktor Medvedchuk, the "Party of Sharia" and "Nashi". In addition, the activities of the Opposition Bloc, the Left Opposition, the Union of Left Forces, the Powers, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialists, and the Volodymyr Saldo Bloc have been suspended via the Russian State media outlet RIA Novosti