March 22, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrikes
- A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia kills a civilian and injures 25 others. (AP)
- A Russian drone strike in Rzhyshchiv kills at least nine civilians and injures 29 others. (Yahoo)
- Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrikes
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Yemeni Civil War
- Ten Yemeni soldiers are killed by Houthi Islamists in Harib District, Marib Governorate, despite a truce reached between the government and the rebels on Monday. (AFP via France 24)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- Ten volunteers and four Burkina Faso Armed Forces soldiers are killed during an ambush in Centre-Nord Region, Burkina Faso. Twenty attackers are killed. (France24)
Disasters and accidents
Politics and elections
- 2023 vote of no confidence in the government of Pedro Sánchez
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government survives a second vote of no confidence presented by far-right party Vox, with independent Ramón Tamames as its candidate. (El Periódico)
Science and technology
- Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli wins this year's Abel Prize "for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation". He becomes the first Latin American to win this prize. (The Guardian)
- American engineer Robert Metcalfe wins this year's Turing Award for the invention of Ethernet. (Reuters)