A 78-year-old man set a Russian Grad multiple rocket launcher on fire using a Molotov cocktail in the town of Bashtanka in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv Oblast, town mayor Oleksandr Berehovyi has told Ukrainian journalist Yurii Butusov.

Russian warplanes have again dropped phosphorus bombs in Ukraine, but this time on the village of Rubizhne in Luhansk Oblast, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai reported via Telegram messenger on March 23.

The talks with Russia to end the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are rather difficult, but some progress has been made, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on March 23.

Invading Russian forces are gearing up for a fresh offensive to the east of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on March 22.

Ukraine is unlikely to be able to match Russian manpower in the war, but will win through the use of better tactics, Ukrainian military expert Serhiy Hrabskyi told Radio NV on March 22.

The outskirts of the city of Chernihiv have been completely destroyed by invading Russian troops, along with 60% of its suburbs, Parliamentary Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova said on her Telegram channel on March 22.

Even with practically all of Mariupol in ruins, the invaders’ attack goes on, with Russian warplanes dropping two heavy aerial bombs on the besieged port city, the city council reported on March 22.

Russian tank-building factory UralVagonZavod Corporation and the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant have suspended their work, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement on March 22.

Jixian Wang, a 36-year-old Chinese software engineer, living in Odesa, never thought that he would someday be labeled an enemy of his people. However, he has had to pay this price for trying to tell the truth about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine will not surrender the port city of Mariupol, which has already been almost destroyed, to invading Russian forces, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk told the Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper on March 20.

Slovenia will soon send its diplomats back to the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, despite the Russian invasion of the country and constant Russian attacks on the city, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša wrote on Twitter on March 20.

Ukrainian Railways has launched the Darnytsa-Svyatoshin shuttle rail service to connect the right and left banks of Kyiv across the Dnipro River, the municipal government announced on March 21.

Some members of the “Kadyrovtsy”, so called due to their function as the household troops of Putin-backed Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, allegedly returned to Grozny, the Chechen capital, on March 13, following deployments in Ukraine, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reported on March 19, citing Ukraine’s SBU security service.

There has been some “reconciliation” on critical issues in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in an interview with Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet published on March 20.

Russia has failed to gain control of Ukrainian airspace, reports the UK’s Ministry of Defense on March 19, in a tweet.

 Russian invading forces did not launch any significant offensives over the past day, and as of 6000 on March 20, the general military situation remains largely unchanged, Ukraine’s General Staff said in its daily update on Facebook.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine is ready to end the war that Russian launched again, in a video address published on March 19.

In an interview with UK-based newspaper The Times on March 18, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said that Russia is using the peace talks with Ukraine to regroup its troops for a new offensive.

The military administration of Zaporizhzhya has announced a curfew lasting from 1600 on March 19 to 0600 on March 21, according to the administration’s head, Oleksandr Staruh, on March 19.

Two people were killed and six more wounded and over 20 residential buildings and infrastructure facilities were destroyed in Sievierodonetsk and Rubizhne in Luhansk Oblast as a result of overnight shelling on March 17-18 by Russian forces,, Head of the Luhansk Regional Military Civil Administration Serhiy Haidai reported via the Telegram messenger.