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    Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian-backed Donetsk leader says no sign Ukrainian troops leaving Bakhmut | Russia

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    Russian-backed Donetsk leader says no signs Ukrainian troops leaving Bakhmut

    Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed leader in occupied Donetsk, has told state-owned news agency Tass that he does not see any signs Ukraine is withdrawing from Bakhmut. He is quoted as saying “In Bakhmut, the situation remains complicated, difficult, that is, we do not see that there are any prerequisites there that the enemy is going to simply withdraw units.”

    He claimed, however, that Ukrainian forces were finding it difficult to supply ammunition, food or reinforcements, as the road into Bakhmut from the Ukrainian side is “even more significantly under the fire control of the Wagner mercenary group.”

    The claims have not been independently verified.

    Updated at 04.45 EDT

    Key events

    The air alert that has been in place across most of Ukraine since just after 9am local time this morning has ended after about 90 minutes.

    Russian-backed Donetsk leader says no signs Ukrainian troops leaving Bakhmut

    Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed leader in occupied Donetsk, has told state-owned news agency Tass that he does not see any signs Ukraine is withdrawing from Bakhmut. He is quoted as saying “In Bakhmut, the situation remains complicated, difficult, that is, we do not see that there are any prerequisites there that the enemy is going to simply withdraw units.”

    He claimed, however, that Ukrainian forces were finding it difficult to supply ammunition, food or reinforcements, as the road into Bakhmut from the Ukrainian side is “even more significantly under the fire control of the Wagner mercenary group.”

    The claims have not been independently verified.

    Updated at 04.45 EDT

    Poland claims to have broken up Russian spy ring

    Poland claims to have broken up a Russian espionage network operating in the country.

    Broadcaster RMF reported on Wednesday that Polish security services had detained six people suspected of spying for Russia. According to the broadcaster the group had been planning sabotage activities.

    Defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak today said “I would like to emphasise the great success achieved by the officers of the internal security agency, because the whole spy network has been unravelled” on Polskie Radio 1. “This is undoubtedly proof that the Polish services work for the security of our country in a very efficient manner,” he added.

    Reuters was unable to independently confirm the report.

    Updated at 04.44 EDT

    Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014 in a move not widely internationally recognised, has spoken to state-owned news agency Tass about the future prospects of the peninsula. He said that Ukraine has no chance of re-taking the territory due to the fortification of the region.

    Tass quotes him saying:

    They understand that they have no chance of taking Crimea, taking into account the measures that are being implemented on behalf of the president. Nothing threatens Crimea in this part and the Crimeans can sleep peacefully. The measures have been taken 100%, and their implementation will allow minimising possible damage as much as possible.

    Aksyonov accused Kyiv of using western-purchased drones to try to probe the defences of Crimea.

    Suspilne correspondents are reporting that explosions have been heard in Kherson this morning.

    Oleh Synyehubov, governor of Kharkiv, reports that the Russian military destroyed and damaged private houses and infrastructure facilities in two settlements in the Kharkiv region overnight. The claim has not been independently verified.

    Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that yesterday in Kherson “pyrotechnicians neutralised 90 explosive objects in the de-occupied settlements of the region”. It also reports that more than 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres), and more than seven kilometres (4.3 miles) of power lines were inspected.

    An air alert has been declared across much of Ukraine. NPR journalist Eleanor Beardsley, who is currently in Kyiv, has said “I don’t know how Ukrainians live like this.”

    Volodymyr Zelenskiy has posted to Telegram to commemorate a year since the Mariupol theatre bombing. Ukraine’s president wrote:

    A year ago, Russia deliberately and brutally dropped a powerful bomb on the Drama Theatre in Mariupol. Next to the building was the inscription “Children”, which was impossible to overlook. Hundreds of people were hiding from the shelling there.

    A view shows the building of the Mariupol theatre destroyed in the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the word “children” in Russian seen written in large white letters on the pavement.
    A view shows the building of the Mariupol theatre destroyed in the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with the word “children” in Russian seen written in large white letters on the pavement. Photograph: Reuters

    Zelenskiy’s message continued:

    Step by step, we are moving towards ensuring that the terrorist state is fully held to account for what it has done to our country and our people. We will not forgive a single life ruined by the occupiers. We remember all those whose lives were taken by Russian terror.

    Inside Mariupol theatre after deadly bombing – video

    A week after the incident, Ukrainian authorities put the death toll at as many as 300 people. The figure was based on the accounts of witnesses.

    The Russian authorities have repeatedly denied targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure in a war where urban civilian casualties have been high.

    More now on Moldova. One of Europe’s poorest countries, Moldova has been buffeted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the presence of pro-Russian separatists on its doorstep.

    Led by pro-European President Maia Sandu, Moldova accuses Russia of plotting to destabilise it. Transdniestria, meanwhile, last week said it had foiled a Ukrainian plot to assassinate its leaders.

    A contingent of 1,500 Russian “peacekeepers” remain in the separatist region 30 years after a brief war pitting it against newly independent Moldova.

    Transdniestria channels funds from gas bills paid by domestic and industrial users to a “gas account” used to cover some of its substantial budget deficits.

    The sum of Transdniestria’s unpaid bills for Russian gas is estimated by Moldovan officials at several billion dollars.

    Accumulated arrears for the Moldovagaz company in the rest of Moldova stand at $709 million, though officials in Chisinau last year ordered an international audit of the debt. Moldova depends on Transdniestria to provide most of its electricity at relatively cheap prices from a thermal power station supplied by Gazprom.

    France is being accused of slowing down a €2bn EU package for purchasing weapons for Ukraine by demanding that the munitions be manufactured inside the bloc, The Telegraph reports.

    “Paris wanted guarantees that a deal to jointly procure weapons would only benefit firms based in the EU,” the newspaper reported, quoting European sources.

    US and Russia race to reach US drone wreckage

    Russia has reportedly reached the site of the US drone, CNN are reporting, citing officials. In a press conference following a rare call between Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and his Russian counterpart, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Milley said that the drone would be difficult to recover.

    CNN reports that two officials said Russia had reached the MQ-9 crash site in the Black Sea.

    Milley told reporters that the drone “probably sank to some significant depths, so any recovery operation from a technical standpoint would be very difficult”, but that the intelligence it had gathered would not be able to be accessed.

    “It’s probably about maybe 4,000 or 5,000 feet of water, something like that. So, any recovery operation is very difficult at that depth by anyone,” Milley said.

    “As far as the loss of anything of sensitive intelligence, et cetera, as normal, we would take – and we did take mitigating measures, so we are quite confident that whatever was of value is no longer of value.”

    We are no longer receiving Russian gas, says Moldava energy minister

    Ex-Soviet Moldova is no longer receiving Russian gas or enduring the “blackmail” imposed by gas giant Gazprom over its difficulties in paying for supplies, the country’s energy minister said.

    Victor Parlicov, speaking to TV8 television on Wednesday evening, said Gazprom had been providing supplies only to Moldova’s Russian-backed Transdniestria separatist region since December, with none going to central authorities in Chisinau.

    He said Moldova, wedged between Ukraine and European Union member Romania, was able to secure European supplies thanks to €300m ($318m) in credits from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

    An employee works at the Chisinau-1 gas distribution plant of Moldova.
    An employee works at the Chisinau-1 gas distribution plant of Moldova. Photograph: Vladislav Culiomza/Reuters

    But Transdniestria, he said, has never paid Gazprom for the gas it receives.

    “Transdniestria did’t pay for gas before and it’s not paying now,” Parlicov said. “Gazprom puts up with debts from there. But when the (rest of Moldova) was getting gas, the Russian company resorted to supply cuts, to blackmail.”

    Gazprom had allowed this for 30 years, Parlicov said, to keep the pro-Russian sliver of land from collapsing.

    “They understand that if they abandon this contract they will be practically be allowing the region to collapse,” he said.

    Updated at 02.16 EDT

    Welcome

    Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine. My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you the latest for the next while.

    Our top story this morning: ex-Soviet Moldova is no longer receiving Russian gas or enduring the “blackmail” imposed by gas giant Gazprom over its difficulties in paying for supplies, the country’s energy minister said.

    Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries, has been buffeted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the presence of pro-Russian separatists on its doorstep.

    Led by pro-European President Maia Sandu, Moldova accuses Russia of plotting to destabilise it.

    We’ll have more on this and other news shortly.

    Here are the key recent developments:

    • Moscow said Wednesday it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea, in a confrontation Washington blamed on two Russian fighter jets. US officials said the debris could be in such deep water that recovery is impossible, and would have no real intelligence value.

    • The Russian and US defence ministers and military chiefs held rare phone conversations on Wednesday to discuss the incident. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told his US counterpart Lloyd Austin on Wednesday that operating drone flights near Crimea was provocative and could lead to an escalation, the Russian Defence Ministry said. Russia, the statement said, “had no interest in such a development but will in future react in due proportion”.

    • Austin declined to offer any details on the call, including whether he criticised the Russian intercept. But he reiterated at a news conference that the US intended to continue flying where international law allowed and demanded Russian military aircraft operate in a safe and professional manner.

    • The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said that the incident was “being investigated”. Blinken declined to speak to the motive or intent behind the incident, saying he would let the investigation proceed and that the US is “in close coordination” with allies and partners on the matter.

    • The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, accused Russia of acting “unprofessionally”. Wallace’s comments reflect an emerging western view that the extraordinary mid-air incident was a one-off, not immediately meriting anything stronger than diplomatic complaints.

    • The Kremlin said on earlier on Wednesday that relations with the US were in a “lamentable state” and at their lowest level, after Washington accused Russia of downing one of its reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea.

    • Elsewhere, Ukrainian ground forces shot down a Russian fighter jet near the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian official has said. Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, also said Kyiv’s forces had made gains in northern parts of the city.

    • Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary Wagner group, said Russian forces had taken control of the settlement of Zaliznyanskoye and are expanding the encirclement of Bakhmut. Neither side’s claims of success in what has become the longest-running battle since the war began could be verified.

    • Ex-Soviet Moldova is no longer receiving Russian gas or enduring the “blackmail” imposed by gas giant Gazprom over its difficulties in paying for supplies, the country’s energy minister said. Victor Parlicov, speaking to TV8 television on Wednesday evening, said Gazprom had been providing supplies only to Moldova’s Russian-backed Transnistria separatist region since December, with none going to central authorities in Chisinau.

    • Russia’s defence ministry will start a new recruitment campaign on 1 April, with the aim of recruiting 400,000 professional soldiers to the Russian army, according to a report. Russian military recruitment offices are trying to compensate for its losses in specialised soldiers, such as tank drivers and artillerymen, according to a separate report.

    • Turkey’s parliament is “highly likely” to ratify Finland’s Nato accession bid before mid-April, two Turkish officials told Reuters. Sweden and Finland applied last year to join the defence pact after Russia invaded Ukraine but faced objections from Turkey.





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