Portal:Current events/2022 March 20
March 20, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Siege of Mariupol
- The city council of Mariupol says that Russian Armed Forces have forcefully deported "several thousand" people to camps and remote cities in Russia. (Reuters) (CNN)
- Siege of Mariupol
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Yemeni Civil War
Business and economy
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
- Bulgaria says it will end gas imports from Russia's Gazprom when its 10-year deal with Gazprom expires at the end of 2022, signalling a shift away from Russian energy. Bulgarian Energy Minister Alexander Nikolov says Bulgaria will also seek increased gas imports from Azerbaijan. (Politico)
- 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus
Disasters and accidents
- At least five people are dead and dozens more missing after a ferry collides with a vessel and sinks in Bangladesh. (Reuters)
- Five people die after a fishing boat is hit by a rogue wave off the North Cape, New Zealand. (Stuff)
- A mine collapse in Özgön near the Osh Region in Kyrgyzstan kills three people. (AKIPress)
International relations
- Reactions to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu says that Russia and Ukraine are nearing an agreement on certain peace issues in an effort to end the war. (Reuters)
- According to the Daily Express tabloid, a BBC correspondent says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “finally agreed” to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Wales Online)
- Zelenskyy says that he is ready to meet with Putin. (CNN)
- Russia–Ukraine relations
- France–Russia relations
- France ends all attempts to negotiate with Russia and freezes financial assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation worth €22 billion. France also freezes properties owned by Russian oligarchs worth €150 million. (The Jerusalem Post)
- 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations
- 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
- South Korea claims that North Korea fired a short-range multiple rocket launcher into the sea. (AP) (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 anti-war protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
- Residents in Kherson confront Russian military vehicles and tell them to "go home". (Sky News)
- A concert is held by anti-war demonstrators near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, to call for the war to end. (Reuters)
- 2022 anti-war protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
- 2022 Strépy-Bracquegnies car crash
- A car is driven into a crowd preparing to celebrate carnival in Strépy-Bracquegnies, Belgium, killing six people and injuring around 40 others. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 East Timorese presidential election
- Preliminary results show that former president José Ramos-Horta is ahead of the incumbent Francisco Guterres in the presidential election. (The Sydney Morning Herald)