🟡17.03.2022
21:59 Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine:
Ukraine establishes a National Information Bureau in accordance with international humanitarian law. The key goal of this body is to collect (in all possible ways), summarize data on Ukrainian prisoners of war, dead, missing, illegally detained in Russia, including among the civilian population.
21:50 Radio Svoboda:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine: Russia must relinquish its veto power in the Security Council if it does not want to comply with a UN court ruling.
“The court order is binding and, in accordance with international law, creates legal obligations for the Russian Federation. The allegations of the Russian side about the lack of jurisdiction in the court to consider the claim of Ukraine, and accordingly to execute it, are insignificant. During the hearings, the court rejected Russia’s objections and confirmed its authority to issue its order,” said in a statement.
20:31 Mariupol City Council:
19:30 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine:
Operational situation on the diplomatic front as for March 17, 7pm
Ukrainian diplomacy dealt another devastating blow to the enemy on the diplomatic front. Today, Ukraine has succeeded in removing Russia from work in the Danube Commission.
Dmytro Kuleba: “We continue systematic work on the deputinization of all international organizations, commissions and other international platforms.”
● Sanctions
- Canada imposes new sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko’s regime over Belarus’ involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The sanctions list includes 22 senior Belarusian Defense Ministry officials who supported the aggression, including allowing their country to become a platform for Russian invasion.
● Aids
- The Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that France has provided financial assistance to Ukraine with 300 million euros.
● Isolation of Russia and Belarus
- The European Space Agency (ESA) has refused to work with Roscosmos to develop the ExoMars mission.
- The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has decided to terminate all relations with Belarus due to its active participation in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
- Austria’s largest car producer Steyr Automotive has suspended production cooperation with Russian carmaker GAZ due to EU sanctions against Russia.
- Signet Jewelers, the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry, has stopped working with Russian companies.
- The American corporation, developer, publisher and distributor of video games Electronic Arts (EA) has banned Russians and Belarusians from participating in their e-sports programs Apex Legends and FIFA 22.
- On March 31, the American index provider S&P Dow Jones will exclude bonds of Russian and Belarusian issuers from the indices calculated by the company.
● Humanitarian aids
- More than 700,000 euros were raised to help the Ukrainian people during a “Glory to Ukraine” charity concert organized by Estonian musicians and volunteers in Tallinn.
- Ukrposhta received 30 tons of medical supplies and equipment from the United States worth a total of $ 2 million.
- Hungary will send one truck with first aid equipment for the Ukrainian military.
19:18 Kyiv School of Economics:
As of March 17, the amount of damage caused by Russian troops to Ukraine as a result of a large-scale invasion is 1.8 trillion hryvnias ($ 62.6 billion).
19:11 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Operational information on 18.00, 17.03.2022 regarding the Russian invasion.
The twenty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.
The occupying forces lost their offensive potential and were stopped in all directions. The enemy has significant problems with logistics, continues to suffer losses. In some areas it blocks units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Due to the fact that the enemy used almost the entire set of cruise missiles based on the sea “Caliber” and operational and tactical missile systems “Iskander” during the first twenty days of the operation, the enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on infrastructure and housing neighborhoods of large cities using indiscriminate weapons.
In violation of international humanitarian law, the russian occupiers continue to take hostages and kill civilians, shoot civilians, obstruct the movement of humanitarian convoys to evacuate the population through defined and mutually agreed “green corridors”, use civilian infrastructure for weapons and armaments. looting.
The enemy continues to keep the Ukrainian city of Mariupol under siege and has moved to the total destruction of civilian infrastructure, housing and livelihoods, creating the preconditions for a deepening humanitarian crisis in the city.
In order to intimidate the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories, the invaders abducted and detained representatives of state authorities and local self-government.
In addition to units of the russian armed forces in the Kherson region, police officers from the Krasnodar Territory and the russian-occupied Crimea have been detained. FSB task forces perform punitive functions. The enemy is campaigning to involve the local population in the so-called “police”.
According to the available information, due to the impossibility of high-quality staffing of the occupying forces, the next wave of mobilization to the ranks of the 1st Army Corps will start on March 20 this year in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region.
Aviation units of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 4th Army of the russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses. The moral and psychological condition of the flight crew is extremely unsatisfactory. Cases of dismissal reports continue due to unwillingness to take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.
Ukrainian defenders inflicted significant losses on units of the 252nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Western Military District, which are fighting in the areas of Kharkiv and Izyum. Up to 30 percent of personnel, weapons and military equipment were lost. Besides, divisions of forces of defense liquidated the commander of the 3rd motorized infantry division of colonel Igor Nikolaev.
19:02 Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk:
“The Parliament of the Republic of Latvia has now entered the top three, who have decided to close the sky over Ukraine. With this statement, Latvian parliamentarians express their support for Ukraine, its Defenders, and the People of Ukraine in the battle against Russia,” – stressed Stefanchuk and thanked his Latvian colleagues for their support.
18:25 Head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhii Haidai:
Russian occupation forces fired on an evacuation bus from Popasna. There were no casualties.
18:03 Head of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniegubov:
Russian troops captured the mayor of the Velykyi Burluk territorial community Viktor Tereshchenko.
17:38 Mariupol City Council:
The situation in Mariupol is critical. The city has been under blockade for 16 days, more than 350,000 Mariupol residents continue to hide in shelters and basements from continuous shelling by Russian occupation forces. On average, 50 to 100 air bombs are dropped on the city per day. The destruction is enormous, according to preliminary estimates, about 80% of the city’s housing stock is destroyed, of which almost 30% – can not be restored.
16:23 Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba:
Dmytro Kuleba had a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in Lviv: “Turkey’s solidarity remains unwavering. Grateful for political and humanitarian support, as well as Turkey’s ongoing diplomatic efforts to put an end to Russia’s devastating war against Ukraine.”
15:34 Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine:
The occupier, under the guise of “humanitarian corridors”, redeploys its forces and equipment. All rescue operations in the Kyiv region were conducted under enemy fire.
15:27 Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office:
On March 17, 2022, at about 3:30 am, Russian servicemen fired artillery at the town of Merefa in the Kharkiv region, as a result of which a secondary school and a city house of culture were destroyed.
21 people died. 25 people were injured, 10 of them are in critical condition. Work to clear the debris continues.
14:00 Ukrinform:
A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia was not going to comply with the first decision of the UN International Court of Justice demanding an end to the war in Ukraine. This was reported in the Telegram channel TASS.
“Russia cannot take into account the demand of the UN International Court of Justice to stop the military operation in Ukraine,” Peskov said. He also clarified that “Putin’s plans do not include a trip to the area of the Russian operation in Ukraine and a meeting with soldiers in hospitals.”
14:00 European Pravda:
The meeting came just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the German Bundestag. Scholz opened his remarks alongside Stoltenberg by praising Zelenskyy for his “impressive words.” But the German leader reiterated NATO’s refusal to intervene militarily in Ukraine.
“One thing must also be made clear: NATO will not intervene militarily in this war,” Scholz stressed.
“I commend Germany for providing Ukraine with many types of support,” Stoltenberg said, highlighting how Germany has given Ukraine military, humanitarian and political support, as well as welcomed a share of Ukrainian refugees.
13:43 Police of Chernihiv region:
The occupiers once again carried out heavy artillery attacks on unarmed civilians. There are dead and wounded people. Among the dead – a US citizen.
13:38 State Emergency Service of Ukraine:
In Chernihiv, rescuers retrieved the bodies of 5 people under the rubble of the dormitory caused by a Russian airstrike. These were the parents and 3 of their children: twins (a boy and a girl) of 3 years and a girl of 12 years.
12:44 Ukrinform:
Turkey does not recognize the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia, supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. This is stated in a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on the occasion of the anniversary of Russia’s illegal referendum in Crimea.
12:23 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Оperational information on 12.00, 17.03.2022 regarding the Russian invasion.
The twenty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.
Russian terrorist forces continue strategic offensive operation against Ukraine.
The enemy does not stop trying to reach the administrative borders of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. It is not successful.
In order to restrain the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is trying to blockade settlements north of the capital.
At the same time, the enemy does not refuse to launch missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk and other oblasts where there is no active hostilities.
Intensive use of the territory and infrastructure of the Republic of Belarus by a group of troops of the russian federation to strike at the territory of Ukraine and provide logistical support to a group of occupation troops operating in the Polissya direction is recorded in the Volyn direction.
The possibility of participation of certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in hostilities on the side of the russian federation remains.
In the Polissya direction, the enemy made attempts to capture the previously occupied frontiers, which were lost as a result of successful actions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He has no success in this direction, he suffers losses. It is trying to regroup troops and establish logistics.
The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Seversky direction, and is continuing preparations for the resumption of the offensive in order to further blockade the city of Kyiv from the northeastern direction. Carries out chaotic shelling of positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tries to conduct reconnaissance.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the occupiers tried to carry out offensive operations from the area of the city of Izyum, but were unsuccessful. Attempts are being made to gain a foothold in the occupied frontiers and to improve the logistics system.
russian invaders strengthen the group at the expense of additional units of the 1st Tank Army and the coastal units of the Baltic Fleet.
The enemy carried out offensive operations in the Donetsk and Tavriya directions. It had partial success in the Rubizhne area (fixed on the western and north-western outskirts of the city, moving to the southern part of the city).
He carried out unsuccessful assault operations in the Popasna and Volnovakha areas in the areas of Verkhnotoretsk and Mariinka. He suffered losses. Carries out regrouping of troops, carries out replenishment of stocks.
The storming of the city continues in the Mariupol direction.
The occupiers did not carry out active offensive operations in the Zaporizhia direction.
In the South Bug direction, the enemy conducted reconnaissance and carried out engineering equipment for the positions held.
He tried to carry out offensive operations in the Kryvyi Rih direction, took control of settlement Mala Shisternyia, but had no general success, is fixed in the positions held.
In the Tavriya direction, the enemy continued to increase the system of logistics of the group of troops. A collection point for damaged equipment has been deployed at Dzhankoi airfield.
The enemy is trying to spread disinformation through all available channels of communication, both to the population of the temporarily occupied territories and to its own population in order to form a myth about the “invincibility” of the armed forces of the russian federation.
The Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeals to the media community to limit as much as possible the coverage of personal data, photographs containing the faces of officers (unit commanders), geolocation, visual, address reference to the places where they perform tasks.
Eliminate photo and video recording, the spread of accurate territorial coverage of bomb shelters (shelters for civilians) in the media, in order to make it more difficult for the enemy to obtain current information from open sources for rocket and bomb attacks on civilian infrastructure.
12:08 Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine Lyudmyla Denisova:
In Mariupol, the release of civilians from the rubble of the drama theater has begun.
The building withstood the impact of a high-powered air bomb and protected the lives of people hiding in the bomb shelter. Work is underway to unlock the basement.
Alive adults and children come from there.
There is currently no information about the dead or wounded under the rubble of the theater.
The air strike on this building, which is marked on all sides with the words “children”, is an act of genocide and a terrible crime against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Punishment for the racist troops and the leadership of the terrorist state will be inevitable and cruel.
12:03 Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine:Syrian mercenaries see participation in war on Russia’s side as a chance for further desertion and illegal migration to EU countries.
11:58 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine:
The operational situation on the diplomatic front as of 10:00, March 17
For twenty-one days, Ukraine has been fiercely resisting Russia’s armed aggression on all fronts, including diplomatic.
Ukrainian diplomacy continues to provide sustained support from the world. Significant progress has been made in recent days in providing military and financial assistance. At the same time, Russia continues to fall into the abyss and plunge into complete isolation from the world.
- Helping
After the speech of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy before the US Congress, President Joe Biden announced the allocation of an additional $ 800 million in security assistance to Ukraine
- World’s support
🔺 The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed the deputies of the German Bundestag and called on them not to delay Ukraine’s accession to the European Union
🔺 The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania passed a solid vote resolution calling on the UN to take immediate measures to secure a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop the mass deaths of civilians
☑️ Isolation of the Russian Federation
🔺 Canada has banned broadcasting in the country of the Russian propagandist channel RT (Russia Today)
🔺 The American company Qualcomm, which develops wireless communications, has stopped selling its products to Russian companies
🔺 The United States has set up a multilateral task force with other countries to persecute Russian oligarchs and officials. The group collects and exchanges information to take a specific action, including sanctions, asset freezes, and criminal indictment
🔺 According to the analytical company Sensor Tower, 6982 applications have been removed from the Russian App Store since the beginning of the war in Ukraine
🔺Illy coffee stops supply to Russia
🔺 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, as well as the University of Łódź and the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn have stopped cooperating with universities in Russia and Belarus
🔺 Canada bans Belarusian planes from entering the country’s airspace
🔺 Serbian airline Air Serbia has refused to operate flights between Belgrade and Moscow
☑️ Humanitarian aid
🔺 Belgian monarchs King Philippe and Queen Mathilde will provide shelter to Ukrainians who have been forced to escape from their homes due to the Russian war
🔺 The Japanese government has allowed Ukrainians escaping from Russian aggression to enter, even if they have no relatives or acquaintances who could act as guarantors
🔺EU countries reserve more than 10,000 hospital beds for Ukrainians. In particular, medical care is provided for preterm babies and their mothers, for children, for cancer patients, patients with severe burns, and patients in intensive care units
11:47 Hanna Zamazeyeva, head of Mykolayiv regional council
On March 16, 21 civilians including one child were injured in Mykolayiv region. They were taken to hospital. As of morning, 202 people injured in Russia’s attacks get hospital treatment in the region.
11:44 Ukraine’s Environmental Protection Agency
On February 24, Russia seized all hydraulic facilities of the North Crimean Canal that control water supply from the Kakhovske reservoir to the Crimean peninsula. On February 27, they ruined a temporary dam, road bridge and the Canal’s lock. Russia takes water from the Kakhovske reservoir as the hydraulic facility of the North Crimean Canal partially lost hermeticity. Its capacity is 50m³/s or 4,320,000m³/d. Ukraine’s daily losses are estimated as more than UAH 32.6 million (approx. USD 1.1 million). Ukraine has already lost UAH 620 million (approx. USD 20.9 million) since the invasion.
11:44 Serhiy Hayday, head of Luhansk regional military administration
Deputy head of the Shchastya military civil administration Volodymyr Tyurin went missing on March 4. He was alleged abducted by the Russian troops. His whereabouts are unknown. There is no connection with him.
11:30 Oleh Syniehubov, head of Kharkiv regional administration
The Russian forces launched 49 attacks on Kharkiv region.
11:24 Lithuania’s Parliament, European Pravda
Lithuania’s Seimas unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the UN to immediately secure a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop mass deaths of civilians. The resolution proposed by the vice speaker passed unanimously.
11:14 Serhiy Hayday, head of Luhansk regional military administration
Russia continues to shell the Christ Nativity Cathedral in Sievierodonetsk. Today, a missile hit the church that serves as a bomb shelter.
11:09 Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal“Talked to Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider about the company’s unethical operations in Russia. Unfortunately, to no avail. By giving jobs and paying taxes to the government of a terrorist state the company finances killings of children and women. I hope Nestlé will change its mind,” Shmyhal twitted.
11:05 Europeiska Pravda quoting the Balkan Observer
Bosnia and Herzegovina has the right to decide on NATO membership, and Russia reserves the right to react to that, Russian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Kalabukhov said on Bosnian television. “It’s on Bosnia and Herzegovina to decide on (NATO) membership. Another thing is our reaction. Example of Ukraine demonstrates our expectations. If there’s a threat, we’ll react to it,” the Russian Ambassador said.
11:02 National Police in Kharkiv regionAt night, the Russian troops launched a missile attack on Merefa, in Kharkiv region. A school, community house and academic center were hit. In Zolochivska hromada, a woman was killed as a missile hit a residential area. She covered her daughter with her body and saved her.
10:30 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 17.03 were approximately:
- personnel – about 14000
- tanks ‒ 444
- APV ‒ 1435
- artillery systems – 201
- MLRS – 72
- Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 43
- aircraft – 86
- helicopters – 108
- vehicles – 864
- boats / cutters – 3
- fuel tanks – 6
- UAV operational-tactical level – 11
- special equipment – 10
Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.
7:15 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Operational information on 06.00, 17.03.2022 regarding the Russian invasion
The twenty-second day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion began.
The state, position and nature of the actions of the defense forces have not changed significantly during the last day. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to inflict devastating kicks on groups of enemy troops trying to consolidate and hold the defense of the captured frontiers.
During the past 24hrs, Ukrainian defenders destroyed the command post and support units of the 35th All-Military Army of the Eastern Military District of the Armed Forces of the russian federation, and the enemy’s losses are being clarified.
In addition, for the previous day, thanks to the skill of Anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Force and Air defense of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed ten enemy air targets: two Su-34 fighter-bomber, three Su-34SM fighters, three helicopters and UAVs. Information on the type of another downed plane and the deaths of pilots is being clarified. Units of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to work actively to deprive the occupiers of aircraft of the ability to dominate the air.
The enemy, unsuccessful in conducting a ground operation, continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on the infrastructure and densely populated areas of Ukrainian cities.
The Russian occupiers continue to act insidiously in the information space – carrying out cyber attacks, physically destroying broadcast relay station of television and radio signals, continuing a mass information campaign to discredit the top military and political leadership of Ukraine and the Defense Forces.
At the same time, the enemy continues to actively spread misinformation about the course of the so-called “special operation” among its own population.
The occupying forces continue to suffer losses. They have big problems with the staffing of combat units and support units. The enemy’s personnel were demoralized, which led to an increase in the number of desertions and the refusal of servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation to take part in the war on the territory of Ukraine.
6:38 State Emergency Service of Ukraine:
In Kyiv, a high-rise building was destroyed and set on fire as a result of the fall of a downed missile. According to preliminary information, 30 people were evacuated, of which 3 were injured. 1 person died.
6:25 VP of Global Public Policy of Twitter Sinéad McSweeney:
Since the war in Ukraine began, Twitter has removed more than 75,000 accounts for violations of platform manipulation and spam policy. In line with synthetic and manipulated media policy, more than 50,000 pieces of content with deceptive, misleading, or inaccurate context, including old videos of conflicts, shared as if they’re taking place in Ukraine, were labeled or removed.
00:58 Spokeswoman of the President’s Office Daria Zarivna:
Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was exchanged for nine Russian conscripts.
00:50 Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine:
The Center reported the threat of sabotage groups entering Ukraine under the guise of journalists’ IDs. They come to us from Europe with the certificates of journalists of Ruptly video agencies, which is a subsidiary of Russia Today. The Russian video news agency has an office in Berlin. It can also be called “Redfish Channel” or “Maffick Agency”.
00:00 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Operational information on 24.00, 16.03.2022 regarding the Russian invasion
The twenty-first day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.
The enemy continues the offensive operation against our State. As of March 16, the enemy had not fully achieved any of the strategic goals of the offensive.
In the Volyn direction, the russian occupation forces, with the full support of the military and political leadership of the Republic of Belarus, continue to actively use its territory to deploy missile systems, launch missile strikes on Ukraine and organize all types of troops. Also, the armed forces of the Russian Federation are actively using the airfield network and transport infrastructure of the Republic of Belarus.
The State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus constantly monitors the situation in the areas bordering Ukraine. In order to obtain intelligence information, Belarusian intelligence agencies are interviewing citizens crossing the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
In the Polissya direction, the enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting reconnaissance and trying to organize a counter-battery fight. Has no significant success. During the fighting, units of the 36th All-Military Army of the Eastern Military District suffered significant losses in personnel and equipment and were forced to mobilize reserves prematurely.
There are no active offensive actions by the enemy in the Siversky and Slobozhansky directions. The occupiers are trying to gain a foothold on the previously captured borders, regroup troops and replenish supplies.
The enemy did not stop trying to advance south of the city of Izyum, probably in order to continue the offensive in the direction of Slovyansk. It is not successful.
In the South Buh area, the enemy continues to try to gain a foothold. After the attack on the Kherson airfield by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is temporarily under enemy control, the occupiers are trying to relocate the surviving equipment.
The naval group of the Black Sea Fleet of the russian federation continues to block shipping in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
The situation in the regions at 8 am on March 17
