Russia-Ukraine struggle: Listing of key occasions, day 373 | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

Because the Russia-Ukraine struggle enters its 373rd day, we check out the primary developments.

Right here is the state of affairs because it stands on Friday, March 3, 2023:

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President Vladimir Putin says Russia was hit by what he known as a “terrorist” assault in its southern Bryansk area bordering Ukraine. He promised to crush what he mentioned was a Ukrainian sabotage group that had fired at civilians.
A Russian missile hit a five-storey constructing in Ukraine’s southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, killing at the least 4 individuals, Ukraine’s police say.
A community of at the least 20 torture chambers within the just lately liberated southern Ukrainian area of Kherson is “deliberate and instantly financed by the Russian state,” struggle crimes investigators say, citing new proof.
Previously 24 hours, Ukrainian forces have repelled greater than 170 assaults on the 5 principal sectors of the entrance line, Ukrainian army analyst Oleh Zhdanov mentioned.
Zhdanov mentioned Russian forces had been attempting to encircle the jap metropolis of Bakhmut from the north, east and south and he mentioned that on western approaches to the town “that is in all probability the one a part of the Bakhmut sector the place our forces, fairly than the Russian occupiers, have the initiative”.

Russia and the USA’ high diplomats spoke to one another face-to-face for the primary time since Moscow’s invasion, assembly on the sidelines of a G20 assembly the place ministers traded blame over the battle.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken instructed Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov to finish the struggle and urged Moscow to reverse its suspension of the New START nuclear treaty, in response to a senior US official quoted by the Reuters information company.
Washington will announce a brand new $400m assist package deal for the Kyiv authorities, and is predicted to be a major matter between US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after they meet on the White Home on Friday, officers say.
Russian Deputy Overseas Minister Sergei Ryabkov accuses the US of offering intelligence on the situation of strategic websites inside Russia to Ukraine, for it to assault them with drones. Washington says that was nonsense.

Two Americans have been arrested on suspicion of exporting aviation know-how to Russia in violation of sanctions over the struggle in Ukraine.