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What happened in Ukraine and region on 27 March 2022?
Summary
A retrospective on a missile strike in Volyn region and the reports surrounding it from the preceding days.
What was reported on 27 March 2022, and what had emerged in the days just before? On that date, a missile hit an oil depot in the Volyn region, according to Yurii Pohuliaiko, head of the regional administration.
Reports from the days before
On 26 March 2022, in Warsaw, US President Joe Biden said that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power". Within minutes, a senior administration official told reporters that the point of the president's words was that Putin must not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbours or the region. According to that official, Biden was not discussing Putin's power in Russia or regime change.
Also on 26 March 2022, it emerged that three people had died when Russian forces took control of Slavutych in February. Slavutych is home to workers of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, according to the local mayor.
The same day, a separate dispute surfaced in the South Caucasus. Russia said Azerbaijani forces had entered the Russian peacekeeping zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani officials said it was a false flag operation by Armenian soldiers.
The picture on 27 March 2022
Taken together, the reports from 26 and 27 March 2022 covered a range of developments: a strike on fuel infrastructure in western Ukraine, a diplomatic clarification after remarks in Warsaw, new details about the occupation of Slavutych, and competing accounts of an incident in Nagorno-Karabakh.
