🔵30.03.2022
23:30 Derhachi City Council, Kharkiv region
During the last 24 hours, the occupiers have been intensively and cynically bombing civilian objects in the Derhachi community. Prudianka, Slatyne, and Bezruky were shelled. Derhachi suffered the most. One of the city council’s administrative buildings was destroyed in the city. Many private houses in various areas and traction substations were severely damaged. Several streets are without electricity.
At least one person was killed and three were injured. Due to the constant shelling, it is not possible to obtain more information about the number of victims yet.
22:15 Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Valentyn Reznichenko
The missiles hit an oil depot in Dnipro and one of the plants in Novomoskovsk. No one was killed. Rescuers and law enforcement officers are working on the spot.
22:08 Centre for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
Centre for Countering Disinformation collected fakes and manipulations that the enemy spread on March 30, 2022:
- Fake: The Federal Security Service of Russia has announced the detention of several supporters of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi organization “Maniacs: the cult of murder”, created allegedly for terrorist attacks and mass killings in Russia. The FSS also stated that this organisation was created under the control of Ukrainian special services;
- Fake: The daily update of the Russian Ministry of Defense was focused on Kharkiv. The occupiers claimed that “flying death squads” of nationalists were shelling apartment buildings, nationalists had placed heavy weapons in residential areas, the Security Service of Ukraine was conducting mass arrests, and Kharkiv residents were blocked;
- Manipulation: Russian propagandists stated that Russia has provided 14 million rubles to Ukrainians as financial aid. “One-time payments were received by 1.4 thousand residents of Ukraine.”
20:53 White House
President Biden informed President Zelenskyy that the United States intends to provide the Ukrainian government with $500 million in direct budgetary aid.
20:21 Mayor of Dripro Borys Filatov
The Russians attacked the city of Dnipro. Strong explosions are heard. There is a suspicion of a missile strike.
19:12 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 18.00 on March 30, 2022.
The thirty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.
The thirty-fifth day of the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.
The enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against our state. Carries out partial withdrawal of certain units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
The enemy has significant difficulties with the introduction of combat equipment removed from long-term storage. Thus, according to available information, a significant amount of inoperable equipment was found in the 163rd Panzer Regiment of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division. The enemy is considering the possibility of transporting faulty equipment to the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region with the help of tractors, for its further restoration.
The enemy continues to suffer significant losses. According to the available information, on March 28, a farewell ceremony with the fallen servicemen took place at the permanent location of the 83rd separate assault brigade. Their number is approximately 200 people.
The self-proclaimed leader of the Republic of Belarus continues to deny participation in the war against Ukraine, freely providing territories for the Russian Armed Forces, airfields, and transport networks, as well as locations for cruise and ballistic missile launchers. At the same time, in accordance with international legal acts, an aggressor can be considered “a country that provides its airspace, its territory for strikes on a third country.”
The Republic of Belarus also provides the Russian occupiers with the opportunity to use the network of medical institutions on its territory. So, during the last days, the arrival of a large number of Russian servicemen with various degrees of wounds from the territory of Ukraine to the settlement of Narovlya in the Gomel area is noted.
18:53 Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko
The Russians used banned phosphorus munitions in Marinka, Donetsk region, and there were about a dozen fires in the city. As a result of the shelling, Avdiivka was cut off from electricity again.
18:10 Head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management Yevhen Kramarenko
The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant receives power from Belarus. There is no energy supply in the territory of Chornobyl and other areas of the exclusion zone.
17:27 Spokesman for the Ministry of Defence Oleksandr Motuzianyk
The Defense Ministry believes that the Russians have not given up attempts to capture or at least surround Kyiv and Chernihiv, despite Russia’s statements about a drastic reduction in hostilities in these areas.
16:19 Mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Makrushyn
According to preliminary data, up to 300 civilians and up to 50 servicemen were killed in Irpin. 50% of the city is destroyed, there may be people under the rubble. The mayor said that the Russians shot civilians and run over them with a tanks.
15:53 Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation
As part of the presentation of this year’s program to mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps, Foundation Director Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner announced that official representatives of the governments of Russia and Belarus are not welcome at the commemorative events in Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. This decision is connected with the recent death in Kharkiv of the former prisoner of Buchenwald, 96-year-old Borys Romanchenko. It was agreed with other former concentration camp prisoners from several countries.
13:36 United Jewish Community of Ukraine
Information about the use of synagogues in Uman by the military is untruthful. On Wednesday, March 30, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said at a briefing that allegedly Jewish facilities in Uman are being used by “Ukrainian nationalists.” The United Jewish Community of Ukraine declares that all synagogues and Jewish facilities in Ukraine are used exclusively for their intended purpose, for religious activities, or to help members of Jewish communities and the local population.
13:12 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 12.00 on March 30, 2022.
The thirty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continues.
The Defence Forces of Ukraine continues to conduct a defence operation in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Northeastern directions.
The Russian enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. It suffered significant losses and probably temporarily gave up the task of blocking Kyiv. It regroups and focuses on offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone and increases the system of logistical and logistical support of troops in the Donetsk and Tavriya areas.
The Russian enemy’s military command continues to send servicemen from military support units, including educational institutions due to the need to recruit units of the armed forces of the Russian federation involved in the war against Ukraine and suffered significant losses.
The Russian enemy personnel is demoralized and have low motivation to take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. Thus, according to available information, the attempts of the Russian military command to mobilize “volunteers” do not have the support of the population. In particular, only 17 so-called “volunteers” were recruited in the Kaliningrad region.
In the Volyn direction, the movement of enemy tactical units and changes in their composition were not recorded. Operational and combat training measures are underway in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.
In the Polissya direction, the movement of enemy troops along the state border of Ukraine with the Republic of Belarus is noted. At the same time, the occupation forces continue to accumulate in the area of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the Shelter facility, and the Exclusion Zone in general. Thus, the movement of mixed columns of Russian enemy vehicles from the settlement of Ivankiv in the direction of the Chornobyl NPP was recorded.
In the Siversky, the enemy focused its efforts on sabotage and reconnaissance activities, engineering equipment of positions, and artillery strikes on positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and infrastructure facilities near the city of Chernihiv.
In the Brovary direction, there was a partial withdrawal of units from the area occupied by the Russian occupiers towards the border with the Russian federation.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the Russian invaders continue to block the city of Kharkiv and inflict artillery strikes on residential areas of the city.
In the Izyum direction, the enemy is increasing its efforts by moving separate units from the 20th All-Army and the 1st Tank Army from other directions. It continues to launch missile and bomb strikes and fire artillery.
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian enemy intensified fire and assault operations, continues to strike air and missile strikes on settlements. The main efforts are focused on taking control of the cities of Popasna, Rubizhne, and Mariupol.
In the South Buh area, the enemy is trying to take measures to restore the combat capability of its troops, replenish ammunition and fuel and oil, continue the engineering equipment of the occupied frontiers. He is trying to restrain the actions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with artillery fire and airstrikes.
Yesterday, in the Russian city of Belgorod, due to neglect of safety rules and violation of the requirements for the transportation of ammunition, their unauthorized detonation took place. This situation is an example of the typical mass use of obsolete dangerous munitions by Russian servicemen, including during the Second World War. Only yesterday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned of the threat of self-detonation of ammunition, a huge number of which Russia has set up in the area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Russia must withdraw its troops from the Chornobyl zone immediately.
11:10 Ukrainska Pravda
The occupiers in Mariupol are deliberately destroying a building marked with a red cross on a white background by air and artillery shelling, Azov battalion fighters report.
11:05 Security Service of Ukraine
The security service published intercepted telephone conversations of the occupiers. In one such call with the invader, his wife asks for a laptop, sneakers, and a suit from the captured Ukrainian homes. In another conversation, the occupier tells his wife about the rape of a 16-year-old girl by three Russian soldiers.
10:35 Suspilne
In Kherson, unknown people abducted priest Serhiy Chudynovych. According to the church where Chudynovych serves, he was abducted at about 8:30 a.m. on March 30. Nobody knows what is happening to him now and where he is.
10:33 Suspilne
The number of victims as a result of the missile hit of the Russian military in the building of the Mykolaiv regional administration on March 29 increased to 14 people, reported in SES.
9:56 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 30.03 were approximately:
- personnel – about 17300,
- tanks ‒ 605,
- APV ‒ 1723,
- artillery systems – 305,
- MLRS ‒ 96 од,
- anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 54,
- aircraft – 131,
- helicopters – 131,
- vehicles ‒ 1184,
- boats / cutters ‒ 7,
- fuel tanks ‒ 75,
- UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 81,
- special equipment ‒ 21,
- mobile SRBM system ‒ 4.
Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.
9:47 Head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration Viacheslav Chaus
Despite the Russians having publicly stated that they are reducing their offensive in the Chernihiv direction, civilian infrastructure, libraries, shopping malls, and homes have been destroyed again.
9:11 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine
The occupiers fired on food warehouses in the Kyiv region. Prosecutors of the Brovary District Prosecutor’s Office have launched an investigation into violations of the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to the investigation, on March 29, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out an airstrike on the territory of Brovary district. The shell hit warehouses where food, household chemicals, and other consumer goods were stored. As a result of the airstrike, warehouses with a total area of 20,000 square meters caught fire.
8:41 Head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Military Administration Serhii Hamalii
During the day, the Russian aggressor fired a missile at a military facility in the town of Starokostiantyniv in the Khmelnytsky region. At night, there were 3 strikes at industrial facilities in the region. The fires were localized by the SES. Information about the victims is being verified.
8:26 Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine
145 children were killed and 222 wounded during Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine. Children suffered the most in Kyiv – 69, Kharkiv – 49, Donetsk – 54, Chernihiv – 39, Mykolaiv – 30, Luhansk – 28, Zaporizhzhia – 22, Kherson – 25, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15 regions.
The bombing and shelling damaged 790 educational institutions. 75 of them were destroyed. The worst situation is in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Kherson, Chernihiv regions and the city of Kyiv.
These data are not conclusive, as it is not possible to inspect the sites of shelling in areas of active hostilities and the temporarily occupied territories.
7:33 Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhii Haidai
At approximately 6:30 a.m., an enemy with heavy weapons opened fire on residential neighbourhoods in one of the Lysychansk districts. There is significant destruction of high-rise buildings. Information on the number of dead and wounded is being clarified. There are a lot of blockages.
6:29 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 06.00 on March 30, 2022.
The thirty-fifth day of the heroic confrontation of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion has begun.
The enemy continues to conduct full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
Units of the 4th (Tskhinvali district, South Ossetia) and 7th (Abkhazia) military bases, which are part of the Southern Military District, were transferred from the occupied territories of Georgia to the territory of Ukraine to recruit the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
From the 4th military base, three battalion tactical groups with a total number of up to 1,200 Russian and Ossetian servicemen were formed and sent to Ukraine. Two battalions of tactical groups were formed from the units of the 7th Military Base, which is about 800 people.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts, the enemy continues to commit illegal acts against the local population.
Thus, in the settlement of Velyka Bilozirka, units of the Russian occupiers were scattered throughout the settlement and placed equipment between residential buildings.
In the city of Melitopol, the invaders on the outskirts of the city equipped checkpoints and strengthened the bypass regime.
The enemy continues to loot homes and apartments of residents, detain pro-Ukrainian activists and government officials of Ukraine.
In the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, the occupying authorities plan to hold another wave of mobilization from April 1 this year. Such efforts may be made in the recently occupied territories of the region.
According to available information, the armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to have problems with staffing units. Thus, servicemen of the 26th Panzer Regiment of the 47th Panzer Division, who signed contracts after they participated in the war with Ukraine, began to submit reports requesting to terminate the contract and send them to a permanent location for further service.
The Joint Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk and Luhansk areas have repulsed four attacks by the Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours. Ukrainian soldiers destroyed 7 tanks, 7 armored units, 2 units of vehicles and an anti-tank gun. The enemy suffered casualties.
6:28 Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhii Haidai
Due to yesterday’s shelling by the Russians, the high-pressure gas pipeline in Lysychansk was damaged. 35,000 residents of Lysychansk, Pryvillia, Novodruzhesk, Bilohorivka, Zolotarivka, Shypylivka were left without a gas supply.
5:42 Suspilne cited CNN
United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman charged Tuesday that Russia’s war in Ukraine has created a critical food shortage in Ukraine, with ripple effects of a “global food crisis” felt worldwide. At a United Nations meeting Tuesday held on the impact of Russia’s war on global food security, Sherman said that Russia has bombed at least three civilian ships carrying goods out of the Black Sea. She said that the Russian Navy is blocking access to Ukraine’s ports, cutting off Ukraine’s ability to export grain and preventing about 94 ships with food from reaching the Mediterranean Sea.
00:39 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The operational update regarding the Russian invasion on 24.00 on March 29, 2022.
The thirty-fourth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion is finished.
The tasks of reaching the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, encircling the city of Kyiv, and establishing control over the left-bank part of Ukraine remain unfulfilled by the enemy.
Withdrawal of units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from the territory of Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts continues.
According to some indications, the Russian enemy is regrouping units to focus its main efforts on the East. At the same time, the so-called “withdrawal of troops” is probably a rotation of individual units and aims to mislead the military leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and create a misconception about the occupiers’ refusal to plan to encircle the city of Kyiv.
There are no significant changes in the composition and position of the Russian enemy’s troops in the Volyn, Polissya, and Siversky areas. The Russian occupiers are trying to keep the previously occupied borders, they are not carrying out active offensive operations in these areas.
In the direction of Slovyansk, the enemy continues to hold positions in the area of the settlements of Kamyanka, Sukha Kamyanka? implement measures to supply Russian troops, regroup units and replenish supplies continued.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy continues to fire and storm. It carried out air and missile strikes in the areas of Kreminna and Mariupol. Its main efforts were focused on taking control of the settlements of Popasna, Rubizhne, as well as the complete capture of Mariupol, which was not successful.
No changes in the composition and position of the enemy were recorded in the Tavriya direction.
In the South Buh direction, the Russian enemy is taking measures to restore the combat capability of its units. It does artillery fire and airstrikes, trying to restrain the actions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russian enemy carried out artillery shelling of the positions of the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine near the settlements of Stepnohirsk, Orikhove, and Huliaipole.
In the areas of Novokarlivka and Luhivske settlements, the Russian enemy continues to carry out fortification equipment of occupied positions and install minefields.
There are without significant changes in the Black Sea and Azov operational zones.
