It seems that Russia is trying to take control of power in the occupied cities of Ukraine. Some disturbing news of the 17th day of the war Hello, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT This is Meduza's daily mailing list. Here we briefly talk about the main events related to the war in Ukraine that took place during the day.

Several rockets fell in the area of ​​the US Consulate General in the city of Erbil in northern Iraq. At least three explosions were heard in the city, the Iraqi National News Agency reported . It is known that the building of the nearby Kurdistan 24 TV channel was damaged . The work of the local airport was also stopped. There are no reports of possible casualties or injuries. According to unconfirmed reports, the missiles could have been launched from Iranian territory.

Including about the "Kherson People's Republic" Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In the first few days of the war, Russia managed to take control of several cities in the south of Ukraine - Kherson, Melitopol, Berdyansk and others.

False allegations about the maternity hospital airstrike in Mariupol, debunked Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / LETA On March 9, the Ukrainian authorities reported that Russian forces had bombed the maternity wing of Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol. Later, Kyiv stated that the airstrike killed three people (including a child) and injured 17 others.

1300 dead Ukrainian military. Mariupol is still surrounded. Chernigov was left without water and heating The war in Ukraine has been going on for seventeen days. On March 12, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky reported the death of 1300 Ukrainian military during the Russian invasion. Chernihov, according to local authorities, was left without electricity, water, gas and heating. Moscow and Kyiv are continuing negotiations on the video.

The PayPal payment service has asked Russian users to withdraw money from their accounts by March 18. The message appeared in the "Help Center" section on the Russian website of the service. Due to recent events, we have decided to suspend our services for sending and receiving payments in Russia. We are currently maintaining the withdrawal feature. To minimize possible further service disruptions, we kindly ask you to withdraw the balance from your account by March 18, 2022.

Irpen is a suburb of Kyiv, about which the whole world learned about during the war in Ukraine. This is what is happening there Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty images anti -tank barriers on the streets of Irpeni, March 10, 2022 Irpen is a small city hour from Kyiv. On the first day of the war, the airport nearby occupied Russian troops and began advancement to the capital. Since then, fights are constantly going on there. There is no electricity, gas and communication in the city.

The Kherson regional prosecutor's office announced the start of criminal proceedings due to the plans of Russia, whose troops occupied part of the region, to hold an "illegal referendum" and establish a "quasi-republic" called KhNR. The abbreviation, obviously, should be deciphered as "Kherson People's Republic" by analogy with the DPR and LPR.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation announced that there will be no trading on the stock market section of the Moscow Exchange from March 14 to March 18, that is, the entire next working week. The Central Bank has not opened trading on the stock market since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, but previously announced this decision regularly - usually the next day.

Readers of Medusa - about the blocking of Instagram and how it will change their life Annette Shaff / Shutterstock.com On the night of March 14, Roskomnadzor promises to block Instagram - in the opinion of the department, in this sabbits “calls for the commission of violent actions in relation to citizens of the Russian Federation, including military personnel” are distributed.

Negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia continue via video link, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Later, this was confirmed by a member of the Ukrainian delegation, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak. The last meeting of the two delegations took place in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on March 7th.

The largest explorer of Stalinism Chet Kotkin gave a large interview to The New Yorker about Putin's regime. Here is his retelling EPA / Scanpix / Leta Researcher Stephen Kotkin in an interview with The New Yorker, on March 11, spoke about how the war in Ukraine looks in the context of world history. Stephen Kotkin is an American director historian, one of the main academic interests of which is Stalinism.

Respterine of the labor market Vladimir Gimpelson answers Valery Morev / TASS December 10, 1998. Buyers in line for eggs Due to the invasion of Ukraine, foreign companies massively turn off business in Russia, and Western countries introduce strict economic sanctions one after another. All this will seriously hit the Russian labor market.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that about 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers were killed during the war. The Ukrainian authorities regularly give their estimate of losses among the Russian military (the latest reports are talking about more than 12 thousand dead), but since the beginning of the war they have not reported their own losses. In early March, Russia estimated the number of its own dead at 498 people, and Ukrainian - at 2.8 thousand.

Some users of "Gosuslugi" received a mailing from Roskomnadzor with a comment about the upcoming blocking of Instagram in Russia. According to the letter, the decision to block was related to the need to protect Russian citizens, including children and teenagers, from "bullying and insults" and "ensure the psychological health." Calls for violence based on nationality or citizenship, according to Roskomnadzor, can be characterized as genocide.