More than 10 million Ukrainians fled their homes, Kiev counterattacked in Kharkiv

“About 90% of Ukrainians who seek refuge in other countries are women and children. Among them, the number of people displaced to Poland, Romania and Russia reached 2.2 million, 500,000 and 300,000 respectively. In total, more than 10 million people, or more than a quarter of Ukrainians, have had to leave their homes,” Al Jazeera quoted UNHCR’s statement issued today (March 28) as saying.

Ukrainians leave the Mariupol war zone. Photo: Reuters

Earlier on March 24, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that about 4.3 million Ukrainian children, or more than half of all children in the country, have been forced to leave their homes due to the brutal war. paralysis.

Ukrainian troops launch counterattack in Kharkiv

Governor Oleg Sinegubov of Kharkiv province said that the Ukrainian army today organized a counter-attack against Russian troops in many areas of the northeastern part of the province.

“The villages of Mala Rohan and Vilkhivka are now completely under the control of Ukrainian troops. Fierce fighting continues in the city of Izyum, 124km southeast of Kharkiv,” Al Jazeera quoted Sinegubov as saying.

Earlier, according to ABC News, the Ukrainian army had pushed the Russian armed forces out of the town of Trostyanets in the north of the country. Trostyanets is located between Kharkiv and the strategic city of Sumy. Videos posted online show that Ukrainian troops are present in Trostytanets.

Kiev officials also said that the country had regained control of two villages near Mykolaiv in the south, where Ukrainian forces launched a counterattack near the Russian-controlled city of Kherson.

Russia and the West hit the expulsion of diplomats

“We have declared five Russian diplomats ‘persona non grata’ for violating diplomatic norms, and they must leave our country within five days,” he said. Al Jazeera quoted a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia as saying.

“Russian Ambassador to North Macedonia Sergey Bazdnikin has been informed of the conduct of the above individuals in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” the statement added.

According to Al Jazeera, although it is not clear which Russian diplomats violated the diplomatic standards that led to the expulsion of North Macedonia, the Skopje government is one of the non-EU European countries to impose the sanctions. sanctions against Moscow for its military campaign in Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has not yet commented on North Macedonia’s move.

Meanwhile, Moscow today announced it will expel three Slovakian diplomats as a retaliation move by Bratislava authorities earlier this month forcing three Russian diplomats to return home. “Three ‘unwelcome persons’ will have 72 hours to leave our country,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, Sputnik news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying.

Ukraine does not rule out the possibility of Belarus joining the war

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army today issued a warning that Belarusian armed forces may be sent to the country to support Russian troops participating in the attack.

“We have noted that four Belarusian military combat groups are engaged in the ‘consolidation and defense of the border between the two countries’ along the western part of the Volyn province,” Al Jazeera quoted the article as saying. Facebook of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army.

Some analysts believe that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko may support Russia in the war with the deployment of several divisions to Ukraine.

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Tuan Tran