05:52 Evacuation trains blocked after airstrike on railway line - reports
Three evacuations trains have been blocked after an airstrike on a Ukrainian-controlled railway near Barvinkove station in eastern Ukraine, according to reports. Passengers remain stranded at the station after the airstrike hit the line today, with train routes out of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Lyman, which sit in the Donetsk region, blocked, Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske reports. Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko has also reported airstrikes hitting the railway line in the northern part of the Donetsk region. ソース:skynews
2 hr 27 min ago Ukrainian official says Russia struck crucial railway overpass, blocking evacuation route
Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk regional military administration, said Thursday Russian forces struck a railway overpass near Barvinkove, blocking an evacuation route for civilians from eastern Ukraine. ソース:CNN
19:47 Train station attack death toll rises to 39, says Ukraine
Thirty-nine people were reportedly killed after two rockets hit Kramatorsk train station, according to the region's governor. Writing on Telegram, Pavlo Kyrylenko said the death toll had risen to 39, and that 87 people had also been wounded during the shelling. ソース:BBC
19:21 Pictured: Aftermath of Kramatorsk station strike
19:04 Russia claims missile used in attack was Ukrainian
The Russian defence ministry has suggested Ukraine attacked its own people as it denied responsibility for the missile strikes on a railway station that left more than 30 dead, according to the RIA state agency. It said a missile used in the strike was only used by the Ukrainian military. The Russian army did not have any targets assigned to Kramatorsk on Friday, the ministry said. Again, this claim has not been verified by Sky News - and similar denials issued by Russia in the wake of previous killings have been contradicted by clear evidence. ソース:skynews
01:43 Russian forces abandon tanks in hasty withdrawal that may indicate 'collapse of will' - official
A western official has been providing some interesting comments on intelligence from the ground in northern Ukraine. They said Russian forces had abandoned "a lot" of tanks, vehicles, and artillery in a "hasty" withdrawal. Vladimir Putin's operations had been "disastrous", the official said, and the abandonment of vehicles may be a sign of a "collapse of the will to fight".
"We can confirm that there are no longer units in northern Ukraine," they told a news conference.
"It has been a pretty hasty withdrawal by Russian forces and there's a lot of Russian equipment which has been abandoned in that hasty withdrawal and that's only going to exacerbate the challenge they have in terms of the refurbishment and reconstitution of their forces as they remove them both into Belarus and into Russia.
"Some of it's kind of unclear as to why it's been abandoned because you might have thought there is some of these vehicles are still usable and you think they would have been able to take and I think there's something around the collapse of morale and the collapse of the will to fight." ソース:skynews
27 min ago Putin appoints new commander for Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a new general to direct the war in Ukraine as his military shifts plans after a failure to take Kyiv, according to a US official and a European official. The officials told CNN Army Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, commander of Russia’s Southern Military District, has been named theater commander of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine ソース:CNN
In this pool photo taken on Thursday, March 17, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, poses with Col. Gen. Alexander Dvornikov during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool/AP)