Portal:Current events/2022 March 26

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Northeastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Kharkiv
        • The Holocaust memorial at Drobytsky Yar is hit by Russian shelling, damaging the memorial's menorah. (Jerusalem Post)
    • Russian forces airstrike the western city of Lviv, injuring five people. (Reuters)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict
    • The Saudi coalition in Yemen launches a series of air raids on targets in Yemen in response to attacks on Saudi Arabian energy facilities by the Houthis. (Global News)
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • 2021–2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis
    • Azerbaijani troops continue to advance into the Askeran Province of the Republic of Artsakh, clashing with Artsakh Defence Army forces in Farukh and Khramort. (Asbarez)
    • Russia says that Azerbaijani forces have entered the Russian peacekeeping zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijani officials say it was a false flag operation by Armenian soldiers. (Times of Israel) (Radio Free Europe)

Business and economy

• Economic impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
    • Spotify announces that it expects to suspend all its services in Russia by the end of April, citing recently passed legislation that restricts access to information as a reason for the suspension. (Infobae)
• Saudi Arabia and Kuwait sign off on a 50-year program to explore the Arash gas field, which is located on the maritime border between the two countries and also extends into Iranian waters. Iran says that the deal is illegal. (Tasnim)

Disasters and accidents

• 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
  • The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises the alert status of the Taal Volcano to level 3 after the volcano had a short-lived phreatomagmatic eruption. (CNN Philippines)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai
      • It is announced that Shanghai will not impose a full-scale lockdown despite an increase in COVID-19 cases. (South China Morning Post)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria
    • The government announces that the country will not extend their COVID-19 state of emergency beyond March 31. (The Sofia Globe)

International relations

• Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–United States relations
    • U.S. President Joe Biden declares in a speech that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power". In response to reports that the statement constitutes a call for regime change, the White House later releases a statement saying that Biden's "point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin's power in Russia, or regime change". In response to Biden's statement, the Kremlin states that this is a choice of the Russian people. (CNN) (The Hill)

Law and crime

• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022 anti-war protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
    • Slavutych mayor Yurii Fomichev is released by Russian soldiers after protesters opposed Fomichev‘s kidnapping and Russia’s occupation of the town. (EuroWeekly News) (I News)
  • Anti-war protesters gather in London to stand in solidarity with Ukraine. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Maltese general election
  • Maltese citizens go to the polls to elect members of the Parliament. (Euronews)

Science and technology

• 65 terabytes of data belonging to the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation), the Russian airspace regulator, gets lost indefinitely in a hacker attack, which is said to be one of the largest ever. The data lost includes all official documents, files on its servers, the public procurement system of Rosaviation, as well as all emails for the last one and a half years; no backups are available. As a result, the agency is forced to switch to paper-based workflow. (Kommersant) (Aviation24.be)