MONDAY 28 MARCH 2022

Day 28

CNN

• CNN anchor said this morning that the Ukrainian people “think” that the war has been going on for eight years.  He said this more than once.  I don’t understand why this fact was portrayed as a supposition.
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UKRAINE WORLD

• Ukraine’s largest pro=Russian party suspended its operation.  This is after two draft laws were introduced in Ukraine’s Parliament proposing to amend legal procedures on banning political parties.
• Kharkiv has come under shelling more than 200 times in the past 24 hours. 
• Zelensky gave a 90-minute Zoom interview with Russian journalists.
• In Mariupol there is no electricity, no water, no light, no heat, no communication.
• Ukrainian negotiations with Russia will begin in Turkey tomorrow.
• Zelensky: “I am sure that if tougher sanctions had been levied earlier, a full-scale Russian attack would not have occurred.”
• Zelensky: The Russians are doing the same thing in cities as they did in Donbas in 2014.

EUROMAIDAN PRESS

• Ukrainian security services says they have eliminated 5 enemy bot farms.
• The bot farms were distributing fake narratives about Russia’s war in Ukraine.  Russian aggression and ideology were justified.
• Russia has persecuted 36 local government officials, journalists, religious leaders, volunteers, civic activists.
• The loses to Ukraine from the Russian invasion are estimated to be $564.9 billion.
• The Armenian Embassy in Ukraine has denied the Armenia handed over aircraft to Russia to be used against Ukraine.