04.03.2022
19:25 Spiegel and European Pravda
700 hundred of the 2,700 “Arrow” anti-aircraft missiles promised for Ukraine by the Ministry of Economy of Germany are not only obsolete but unusable. Besides, they have tiny cracks that have led to corrosion.
At the same time, the German Ministry of Defense expressed surprise at this statement, as the “Arrow” missiles were declared outdated and put into storage in 2014. They are at least 35 years old and are no longer considered safe to use.
18:40 General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, report of 18:00
The Russian troops focused on encircling Kyiv and weakening resistance efforts in the cities they blocked. They conducted a series of air raids on the cities, used artillery and multiple launch rocket systems to destroy critical infrastructure and residential houses.
In Volyn, the Ukrainian troops’ positions did not change.
The Ukrainian troops defend Chernihiv and hold their positions. Near Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske, in Chernihiv region, a Russian column of up to 200 units of materiel and troops stopped ahead of the river. The bridge over the river was destroyed.
In Slobozhanshchyna (an area that includes Kharkiv), the Ukrainian troops hold the defense and strike the Russian troops.
Two operational-tactical groups of Ukraine’s Joint Forces conduct the defense operation.
An operational group of the Ukrainian troops is stationed in Prymorskyi section to protect the sea coast and allow no encirclement of Mykolayiv.
The Ukrainian Air Force repels Russia’s air strikes. The Russian troops have lost 37 aircraft and 37 helicopters since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to repel the advance of the Russian troops toward Kyiv. The Ukrainian troops strike the Russian offensive units and hold the positions.
The Russian troops are demoralized. Civilians in Ukraine resist.
18:40 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The ninth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion continues.
The main efforts of the occupiers were focused on the encirclement of Kyiv and the weakening of resistance in the settlements they blocked. The occupiers also continued to launch missile and bomb strikes on settlements. Artillery and multiple rocket launchers were used to destroy critical infrastructure and residential buildings.
In the Volyn direction, the position of our troops has not changed significantly.
In the Northern direction, Chernihiv carries out heroic defence. Units of the operational group of troops hold positions on the holding frontiers.
In the area of the settlement of Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske, Chernihiv region, a column of up to 200 units of equipment and manpower is standing in front of the water barrier. The bridge across the river was destroyed.
In the Slobozhansky direction, units of the group continue to conduct defensive battles, successfully carry out the enemy fire.
The Joint Forces are still running a defence operation, with the help of two operational and tactical groups.
In the Primorsky direction, an operational group of troops covers the sea coast and performs tasks to prevent the encirclement of the city of Mykolayiv.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulses enemy airstrikes. Continue to conduct systematic hostilities. By this time, the russian invaders had lost 37 aircraft and 37 helicopters.
Defenders of the city of Kyiv continue to repel the enemy’s attack, defeat his offensive group and maintain certain boundaries.
The enemy is demoralized. The local population shows in every way that russia is not welcomed here.
The struggle continues across the country. Let’s win together!
We urge you to use only proven sources of information and do not panic. The enemy is waiting for this.
Glory to Ukraine!
18:15 European Pravda
Proxy government of “Transnistria” has sought recognition of independence over Moldova’s bid to join the European Union.
18:12 Kyrylo Tymoshenko
Information for the foreign partners about humanitarian aid coordination:
📌 Humanitarian Headquarters for Coordination of Humanitarian Aid was established, coming from foreign partners and concerned citizens of the world
📌 A clear list of the most needed humanitarian aid has been formed
📌 Logistics centres have been established in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and Ukraine
📌 The Government of Ukraine has simplified the import of humanitarian aid into the country, created green corridors to increase the volume of humanitarian aid
On March 2, 2022, 1,764 tons of humanitarian cargo were imported to Ukraine from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
Thank you to the neighbouring countries for their support and assistance! Together we will win!🇺🇦
18:04 NV
The Russian-occupying troops go on a counteroffensive on the Kulbakin airfield in Mykolaiv, the head of the Mykolaiv regional state administration Vitaly Kim reported.
“Ukrainian Army knocked them out in the city. The fight continues on the outskirts,” said Vitaliy Kim.
18:00 The State Service of the Special Communication and Protection of Information of Ukraine
⚡️Ukraine to be accepted as a Contributing Participant to NATO CCDCOE
🔻 This week, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) held its 30th Steering Committee. With a unanimous vote, the 27 Sponsoring Nations in the Steering Committee of the CCDCOE agreed to Ukraine’s membership in the NATO CCDCOE as a Contributing Participant.
📢 “Ukraine’s presence in the Centre will enhance the exchange of cyber expertise, between Ukraine and CCDCOE member nations. Ukraine could bring valuable first-hand knowledge of several adversaries within the cyber domain to be used for research, exercises and training,” emphasized Col Jaak Tarien, Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
📢 “Capability and knowledge comes from experience, and Ukraine definitely has valuable experience from previous cyber-attacks to provide significant value to the NATO CCDCOE. Estonia as a Host Nation of the CCDCOE has been a long-term partner for Ukraine in enhancing its cybersecurity capacity and cyber resilience and we welcome the decision of the members of CCDCOE agreeing to Ukraine’s membership,” commented Minister of Defence of Estonia Kalle Laanet.
📨 After Ukraine sent a letter to confirm its remaining interest in joining NATO CCDCOE as a Contributing Participant, their membership was put on the vote in the Steering Committee of the CCDCOE. The Centre has already expanded its memberships outside the NATO-nations.
ℹ️ The CCDCOE is a NATO-accredited cyber knowledge hub, research institution, and training and exercise facility. The Tallinn-based international military organization focuses on interdisciplinary applied research, as well as consultations, training and exercises in the field of cybersecurity.
Additional information and press inquiries:
Liis Linn
In capacity of Head of Communications at NATO CCDCOE
17:47 Radio Svoboda
About 100 people may be under the rubble of houses in Borodyanka in the Kyiv region. Their fate is currently unknown. Currently, rescuers do not have access to them at the moment.
17:36 Censor.net
The largest Japanese and one of the world’s leading electronics manufacturers “Panasonic Group” has announced the suspension of operations with Russia due to economic, logistical and other practical problems.
It is noted that the company will continue to monitor developments and provide humanitarian assistance if necessary.
17:00 Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Kuleba took part in the extraordinary meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. His message: act now before it’s too late. Don’t let Putin turn Ukraine into Syria. We are ready to fight. We will continue fighting. But we need partners to help us with concrete, resolute and swift actions, now.
16:50 The National Bank of Ukraine
The National Bank obliged banks to work seven days a week from March 7 to 8, 2022, during martial law.
“Under martial law, banks must fulfil their civic duty and work seven days a week, providing the necessary banking services to Ukrainians,” said the Chairman of the National Bank, Kyrylo Shevchenko. “To do this, banks must ensure the proper and uninterrupted operation of their branches and outlets, in the absence of threats to life and health.”
16:49 Radio Svoboda
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has backed a resolution condemning alleged human rights abuses during Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The Council will set up an independent commission to investigate them.
32 out of 47 participants voted for this decision. 13 abstained (these are, in particular, Armenia, Cuba, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan). Only Russia and Eritrea opposed it.
16:40 Yurii Butusov
Russia has lost the battle for Kyiv and has thrown all its forces south to capture Mariupol, Donbas, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine.
16:35 Office of Attorney-General of Ukraine
The enemy is threatening an ecological catastrophe in Ukraine and Europe. Therefore, the Attorney-General, together with the Security Service of Ukraine, launched an investigation of the ecocide and a terrorist act (Part 2 of Article 28, Article 441 and Part 2 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) on the territory of Ukraine.
International law prohibits the military or any hostile use of means of impacting the environment.
16:16 Russian troops do not allow trucks with humanitarian aid into Kherson
Russian occupiers did not give good on the “green corridor” to supply humanitarian aid to Kherson region, reports Kherson Regional State Administration.
19 vans were formed by the Ukrainian authorities to provide the needs of Kherson and the region as necessary.
And now the Russians say that they will provide humanitarian aid themselves.
Regional authorities will continue to demand from the occupiers the possibility of transporting Ukrainian humanitarian aid!
In addition, currently mobile communication in Kherson region is not working due to numerous fiber-optical network outages. The local TV center has been taken over, reported Igor Kolykhaev, mayor of Kherson.
16:00 Radio Svoboda
NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg mentioned the NATO members agree that Alliance planes should not fly over Ukraine, and NATO troops should not be present in Ukraine during the war with Russia.
Mr Stoltenberg acknowledges that Russia is likely to step up its offensive against Ukraine, which began on 24 February, and that the coming days are likely to be “worse”.
14:50 UN Human Rights Council established the International Commission of Inquiry to investigate facts of Russian war crimes against Ukraine
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the establishment by the UN Human Rights Council of an international commission to investigate the facts of war crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
“I welcome the establishment by the #UN Human Rights Council of the International Commission of Inquiry to investigate facts of Russian war crimes against Ukraine. Evidence will be documented and used in international courts. Russian war criminals will be held accountable”, Zelensky said on Twitter,
14:21 Volodymyr Zelensky survives three assassination attempts in days
President Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times has learnt.
Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Ukrainian president — mercenaries of the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces. Both have been thwarted by anti-war elements within Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
Wagner mercenaries in Kyiv have sustained losses during their attempts and are said to have been alarmed by how accurately the Ukrainians had anticipated their moves. A source close to the group said it was “eerie” how well briefed Zelensky’s security team appeared to be.
13.40 Invaders in captured Ukrainian cities create humanitarian crisis to send their “humanitarian convoys” – Zelenskyy
The invaders are creating a humanitarian crisis in the occupied cities of Ukraine, blocking Ukraine’s “green corridors” and thus forcing people to leave to the territory of Russia. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a conversation with representatives of the Western media.
“Humanitarian cargoes for food, drinking water, medicines, insulin, there are especially many appeals from retirees – they are constantly sent on. Entrances for our humanitarian cargoes in the occupied towns have been blocked,” the Head of State said.
According to the President, the invaders are deliberately blocking the “green corridors” so that their humanitarian goods can enter the city from the other side.
They also do not allow Kharkiv residents to pass through “green corridors” to other regions of Ukraine, but instead create conditions and corridors for our citizens to leave to the territory of Russia, said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“They say: ‘Here’s another green corridor’. Go to Russia. Come to Russia, we will give you food, water, no one will kill you there,” he said.
The President stressed that Ukraine will never ban or hinder the departure of citizens to Russia who decide to do so for rescue or other reasons. However, he stressed, Ukrainians do not want to go to Russia.
“I can’t force people to go to Russia. I can’t drive them with sticks. Many of them say: “We will not go there,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated.
The Head of State also noted that difficult living conditions are being created in the Russian-occupied settlements, which were unable to repel the attack in conditions when the invader significantly outnumbered them.
“Somewhere in some towns, they cut off electricity, take food from stores and then distribute stolen goods in the square to the people with the words: “There you go. We brought you the humanitarian convoy”. Cynicism,” the President summed up.
13.34 Russians seize Europe’s largest nuclear plant after attack, three Ukrainian troops killed
The attack on the southeastern city of Energodar and its Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant unfolded as the invasion entered its second week. Three Ukrainian troops were killed in the blast, according to the Ukrainian state nuclear company.
On 4 March the IAEA stated that a projectile had hit a building within the site of the Zaporozhe nuclear plant. The SNRIU said a resulting fire at the site had not affected “essential” equipment and that plant personnel were taking mitigatory actions. The SNRIU said there was no reported change in radiation levels at the plant and the IAEA confirmed that the six reactors were not affected and that there had been no release of radioactive material. The IAEA also confirmed that the radiation monitoring systems at the plant remained fully functional.
According to the IAEA, just one of the six reactors (unit 4) at the Zaporozhe nuclear plant is currently producing electricity. It is operating at about 60% of its total capacity. The statuses of unit 1 (maintenance outage) and units 5 and 6 (held in reserve, operating in low power mode) are unchanged following the events on 4 March. Units 2 and 3 have undergone a controlled shutdown.
13.08 Operational information at 12.00 on 04.03.2022 regarding the Russian invasion
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The ninth day of the Ukrainian people heroic confrontation with the Russian military invasion is going on.
The second echelons and most of the operational reserves of the Russian Armed Forces were put into operation.
In Slobozhanshchyna, units 20A of the enemy continue to carry out attempts to continue the offensive on the Joint Forces in the Novoaydar and Severodonetsk directions.
In the Donetsk operational direction the enemy is trying to keep the encirclement around the city of Mariupol with the help of six BTGs. To minimize the negative effect of the losses in the Donetsk region, Russian curators began to bring Russian Armed Forces servicemen to the Ilovaisk station.
The main goal of the enemy remains the encirclement of Kyiv and the weakening of resistance in the blocked settlements. In the course of this task, groups of the RF Armed Forces exhausted most of the operational reserves and began to transfer additional forces and resources from the Southern and Eastern military districts.
In the Black Sea the Black Sea Fleet was withdrawn from naval bases with the task of striking the surface forces of the Navy forces, but more often civilian ships and their crews become the victims of Russian pirates.
Having an intention to take over the Black Sea coast, the enemy continues to prepare for the landing of marines in the region Zatoka – Chornomorsk. 40 km east from Chornomorsk there are two large landing ships of the occupiers.
Up to 80 representatives of the Russian media and a large group of “demonstrators” were set up in the occupied cities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to organize public gatherings of “local residents”.
They will probably be sent to Kherson in the near future to organize fake rallies with the participation of propaganda media, to support the change of Ukrainian government on the ground and to legalize the occupation.
the use of airborne troops to ensure the construction of bridges over water obstacles has increased;
the Russian occupiers pay considerable attention to intensifying measures of psychological influence on the population and troops;
There have been changes in the tactics of Russian criminals:
failing to fulfil the task of military “blitzkrieg”, the Russian Federation is turning to openly terrorist methods of conducting hostilities on the territory of Ukraine;
special units are used as assault units in the city suburbs;
in the near future, we should expect a comprehensive and large-scale spread of fake news by the enemy, which will be carried out with the involvement of the full range of modern media.
We urge Ukrainians to be vigilant and careful, to believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and to use information from official and verified sources.
The struggle is going on !!! The victory will be ours !!!
Glory to Ukraine!!!
12.06 Russia is recruiting the reserve of the Russian Armed Forces to the war against Ukraine
The order was signed on 22 January 2022. According to the order, by April 20, the heads of mobilization departments must verify the registration cards of reserve services, and gather them at the mobilization departments.
The document was published by Russian businessman and public figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Facebook.
11:40 Fake demonstrations in Kherson may be staged by Russian occupiers
Russians are preparing to perform fake mass demonstrations in Kherson, Ukraine. It is needed for creating a propaganda story for Russian media, State Special Communications Service (SSCS) of Ukraine warns.
“The Russian occupiers are looking for new ways to misinform Ukrainians and justify their aggressive actions, at least in front of their own people”.
According to the Security Service, about 60-80 Crimean people have already settled in the Frigate Hotel to attend the staged meeting welcoming Russian forces.
As expected, during the day they will go on a provocative action in the central square under the guise of local residents with Russian flags and “gratitude” to the Russian “liberators”.
There is also information that the occupiers seized a warehouse with water police clothes. Therefore, disguised Russian servicemen may come to the rally, who will also “thank” the invaders in the form of Ukrainian police.
SSCS warns: such actions have nothing to do with the real mood of Ukrainian citizens in Kherson and other citizens! This is a part of the information war as fakes and misinformation.
10.08 . Держприкордонслужба
A fire adjuster of Russian invaders was detained in Kharkiv region
At the blockpost, the border guard of the Dergachi department of the Kharkiv detachment detained an enemy fire adjuster, a citizen of Ukraine born in 1989, who was driving a Lexus car.
During observation of luggage compartment of the car, border guards found AKS-74, 240 of its ammunition, quadcopter, 50 thousand UAH, military identity card, passport and mobile phone, which indicated connection with the last subscribers, named “Harmata” (“Cannon”), “Kurator” (“Curator”). The citizen was unable to explain the reason of his presence in the area of the roadblock.
Accomplice of criminal activity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is transferred to the Security Service of Ukraine.
01:18 The Center for Combating Disinformation collected the main theses from President Zelenskyy long interview to international media
🔺Russia does not count its dead. The occupiers brought with them a crematorium for themselves. These are acts of genocide and Nazism
🔺The end of the world has already happened. Ukraine is the fence between civilization and non-civilization
🔺Russian mothers can come to Russia and pick up the bodies of the dead
🔺Russia wants to seize not only Ukraine, but also Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Georgia, Poland
🔺Ukraine demands the introduction of a “closed sky” regime, our state needs planes
🔺Ukraine is not attacking Russia, and is not going to do so. Ukraine is not a member of NATO
🔺Ukraine is losing some cities, where Russia is blocking the entrance for Ukrainian humanitarian goods
🔺Ukraine deserves to be on a par with Germany and other EU countries
🔺In the occupied Donbas, units are being formed from reservists, which the occupier will transfer to Kharkiv
🔺In Kyiv, the military continues to repel the enemy’s attack
01:11 The Russian occupiers fire on power units of Zaporizhzia nuclear power plant, the representative of the press service of NPP Andriy Tuz announced.
“There is a real threat of nuclear danger at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. We demand a ceasefire on heavy equipment at Zaporizhzhya NPP power units. ”
The situation is developing…
03.03.2022
23:07 A mass rally is being brought to Kherson to create a picture of “congratulations” to the occupiers
Russian media spread rumors that Kherson residents want to annex the region to Russia, Vholos reports.
Russian occupiers are bringing “their” people into the city through the Crimea and want to make a video, as if Kherson city residents are begging to join Russia.
“Several Russian buses have been brought to Kherson to depict happy Kherson residents who greet Russians with flowers tomorrow,” posted Vadym Denysenko, Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Thus, locals ask not to be led on fake news from Moscow, because the people of Kherson do not want to go to the occupying country.
Earlier, in Kherson, the mayor’s office has released preliminary information about the victims of the aggressor’s attack – work is underway to collect data to determine the exact number of killed and their identification.
In particular, in the park on Naftovykiv street – 64 killed, near “Nova Linia” store – 8; at the stop near the shopping center “Fabryka” – a man and a boy aged 14 years, on Parovozna street – 11 people. The mayor’s office also reports about a family from Zelenivka shot on Beryslav highway and about the bodies of people near the entrances, in cars, on the streets.
20:05 Belarusian paratroopers have been ordered to cross the border into Ukraine
The Armed Forces of Ukraine maintain boundaries in the Volyn region, reported General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
According to available information, the command of the 38 separate assault brigades of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus was ordered to cross the Ukrainian-Belarusian border to act in the Volyn region.
Currently, forces are located in the territory of the Republic of Belarus in the woods. However, the moral condition of the paratroopers is extremely low. Officers and soldiers do not want to play the role of Russian mercenaries. A significant number of soldiers are willing to terminate their contracts, most of which expire in May.
19:54 President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a resolution to ensure the signing of agreements with the European Union and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to provide financial support to Ukraine.
19:52 Ukraine-Russia talks: no results, waiting for the third round
Ukraine did not get the results it had hoped for during the talks, said Mykhailo Podoliak, a Ukrainian advisor to the head of the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The parties agreed on the joint provision of humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians, as well as for the delivery of medicines and food to the most violent areas with the possibility of temporary use of fire during the evacuation in the sectors where it operates.
19:08 Putin says invasion is going to plan – as he praises Russian soldiers as ‘real heroes’
Russia’s Vladimir Putin is speaking live now, where he is praising his soldiers as “real heroes”.
He announces a posthumous award to a fallen Russian soldier who he says “blew himself up” with a grenade to avoid being captured.
Mr Putin says Ukrainians and Russians are “one people” but that Ukrainians are “threatened and brainwashed”.
He also continues his bizarre claims that Russia is fighting “neo-Nazis” and that civilians are being used as “human shields”.
Contrary to what Ukraine has said, he says Russian forces have provided humanitarian corridors for civilians to flee and that Ukrainian “nationalists” are blocking them.
Meanwhile, he says the “special military operation” – as Russia has been calling it – is going to plan.
“All objectives that were set are being resolved or achieved successfully,” he says.
This is despite Western intelligence suggesting the invasion is behind Russia’s schedule.
19:04 Dmytro Kuleba Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
We will hold Russia accountable for its war crimes and crimes against humanity. Together with 45 states, Ukraine has launched the OSCE Moscow Mechanism on Russia’s invasion. The expert mission will submit findings to accountability mechanisms, including international courts & tribunals.
10:52 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine:
Kharkiv region: the operational information as of 08 a.m. on March 3, 2022
For the past 24 hours, from March 2 to 3, the enemy continued to strike residential neighbourhoods and entire settlements with its deadly bombs, shells and rocket-propelled grenades, cynically killing civilians. The cities of Kharkiv, Izyum, the villages of Yakivlivka and Khorosheve in the Kharkiv district were hit hard. In general, the statistics of losses among the civil population is impressive: 34 people died, 285 were injured, including 10 children.
As a result of ammunition entering houses and administrative buildings, several dozen fires occurred, 30 of which were rescued by rescuers, working even under fire.
At around 8 am, the centre of Kharkiv came under a massive missile attack. The rockets hit 2 administrative buildings, which caught fire. The area of the fire was 600 sq.m. During rescue operations, SES fighters rescued 10 people from the rubble. Unfortunately, 4 people died.
At 13:31, an enemy projectile hit a residential building on Sq. Constitution in the centre of Kharkiv. There was the partial destruction of this building. The blast damaged building structures and destroyed the windows of another house. 17 people were rescued.
At 13:33, the shell hit a garage cooperative on Academic Pavlov street. There was a fire with an area of 300 square metres. As a result, 3 dead bodies were found on the spot.
At 13:57, the shell hit between the 4th and 5th floors of a 16-storey building on Lesya Serdyuk street. 20 people were evacuated from the house.
At 14:40, a fire on the street in the centre of Kharkiv on Myronosytska street. 3 houses burned at once. The reason is the same. Rescuers retrieved 13 people.
At 22:13, the bomb was dropped on the house on Silska street in Kharkiv. As a result of an airstrike on the building, 2 people were rescued from the wreckage, 3 were injured and 2 died.
At 22:57, the enemy cynically attacked an ordinary Ukrainian village, where there is no military infrastructure. The blow was inflicted on the village of Yakivlivka, Kharkiv district. Two cars and an outbuilding caught fire, and private households were damaged. As a result, 7 people were injured and 2 died.
At midnight there was a massive air raid on the peaceful city of Izyum—the city of Cossack glory. It lasted from 00:14 to 02:02. The bombs hit houses on Soborna street, Ukrainian street, M. Fedorenko street and others. As a result of the airstrike, a 5-storey residential building was damaged, in which a woman was rescued. Also, street 8 people died in Ukraine, including 2 children (approximately 5-6 years old). Rescuers pulled their bodies out from under the rubble. On M. Fedorenko street, State Emergency Service officers rescued 2 women who were trapped in a destroyed house.
In addition, a massive air strike affected the Saltovsky residential area. Information on the presence of victims is currently being clarified. Rescuers received about 236 reports of unexploded ordnance. Pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service, despite the threat of enemy fire, demined 230 of them.
10:52 Ukrinform:
The Ministry of Economy of Germany has approved the supply of 2,700 anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, in particular the armament of the Soviet development “Arrow” from the former armed forces of East Germany.
According to the dpa, the Ministry of Defense has been investigating in recent days what other weapons it could supply to the Ukrainian armed forces to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The first batch of weapons was reported the day before—1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
Since last Friday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government has changed its long-standing export control policy and allowed direct arms supplies to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. For years, Germany has refused to export any weapons to combat zones or allow third countries to send German weapons to such areas.
10:41
Kazakhstan does not support any of the parties in Russia’s war against Ukraine, mentioned the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has declared the country’s neutrality in the war that Russia launched against Ukraine on the night of February 24. President Kasim-Jomart Tokayev believes that an agreement should be reached through negotiations.
10:30 Deputy Minister of Finance Vladislav Rashkovan:
Ministry of Finance of Ukraine is fulfilling the Ukrainian debt obligations. Yesterday, the Ministry made a coupon payment for Eurobonds maturing in September 2022. The Ministry of Finance assures that even in conditions of military aggression, the Ministry of Finance, the Treasury and the National Bank of Ukraine ensure all necessary payments.
As of February 28, the balances on the single treasury account amounted to UAH 33 billion, which is enough for current payments.
For comparison: eight years ago, after the escape of Yanukovych, when the Russian Federation began the occupation of Crimea, the account in the State Treasury was only UAH 108.1 thousand.
10:10 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The operational situation on the diplomatic front as of 10:00 a.m. of March 3
The eighth day of the heroic struggle of Ukrainians against the invasion of Russian troops. Ukraine has resisted and is fiercely resisting on all fronts, including diplomatic.
Ukrainian diplomacy continues to work continuously.
- 141 states joined the anti-war coalition in defence of Ukraine—just as many states voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution “Aggression against Ukraine”.
- Russia’s economy continues to fall into the abyss. The value of the ruble has reached its historic minimum. Much of the foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank are blocked. International business is fleeing Russia en masse.
Military assistance
- Ukraine received the second batch of Javelin anti-tank missile systems from Estonia
- 19 countries send Ukraine the latest weapons, ammunition, protective equipment, medical equipment and fuel for the needs of the Ukrainian army regularly
- Diplomats are in intensive talks to provide additional combat aircraft for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from partners in the shortest possible time
Sanctions
- Russia is increasingly wrapped in the flywheel of global sanctions. Canada announces new sanctions against 10 key people from 2 important companies in Russia’s energy sector—Rosneft and Gazprom
- US State Department imposes total sanctions on Russia’s defence sector to suppress Russian military machinery
- Ireland is preparing to close its ports to Russian ships and freeze bank accounts owned by Russian companies
Insulation
- The World Bank has suspended all cooperation with Russia and Belarus
- The development of alternative energy in Russia is impossible. The Danish company Vestas, which is a world leader in the manufacture of wind turbines and was to build wind farms in Russia, has severed the links with Russia
- Ukraine and Poland have initiated the termination of Russia’s membership in the Council of Europe
- The Warsaw City Council has launched legal proceedings to put on balance the buildings used by Russian diplomatic missions. After the completion of legal proceedings, it is planned to house Ukrainian citizens who left Ukrainian territory as a result of Russian armed aggression
Deputinization of the world
- Slovakia abolishes visa-free regime for holders of diplomatic passports of the Russian Federation
- Bulgaria terminates membership in International Investment Bank and International Bank for Economic Cooperation, where Russia is the largest shareholder
- International Paralympic Committee suspends Russian athletes from Beijing Games
- 15 Polish cities have decided to unilaterally terminate cooperation agreements with 15 Russian cities
Humanitarian aid
- The Slovak Ministry of Defense has donated medical equipment to a hospital in Uzhhorod.
- Greece and Ukraine have agreed on the possibility of accommodating Ukrainian children who have cancer and their parents in Greece
- UAE announces USD 5 million in humanitarian assistance to civilian victims of Ukraine’s war
10:06
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lieutenant General Valerii Zaluzhnyi: “We have just shot down a russian SU-30 fighter aircraft over Irpin. The combat crew of the air defence complex worked perfectly!”
09:50 Ukrzaliznytsia
Ukrzaliznytsia was authorized to send 20 carriages to remove 200 dead Russian troops from Fastiv, Odesa-Zastava, Podilsk, Merefa, and Zaporizhia stations.
The carrying capacity of one refrigerator car is 50 tons, so it will be able to transport 10,000 killed soldiers of the Russian occupation army.
The carriages are already at the stations waiting for a full load.
Ukrzaliznytsia also develops regulations for the movement of such trains at a sanitary distance from other trains and settlements.
These wagons will be used exclusively to transport the killed occupiers of the Russian army. Dead Ukrainian soldiers are evacuated by the Armed Forces without the help of Ukrzaliznytsia.
09:32 The State Emergency Service of Ukraine:
On March 3 at about 08:10 in Chernihiv on Chudinov street on the territory of State Enterprise “Kombinat Aystra” during the shelling, a projectile hit the oil depot, resulting in a fire in the tank group with a total capacity of 3 thousand cubic meters of diesel fuel.
Information on victims and injured is being clarified. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine involved 25 people and 5 units of machinery.
09:18 Ukraine is waiting for active assistance from international organizations to create humanitarian corridors — The Office of the President of Ukraine.
It is necessary to organize humanitarian corridors in the villages and towns where the Russian army is located.
Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the President’s Office, announced this on Twitter, Censor.NET reports.
“Villages and towns where columns of Russian troops are disposed immediately become places of looting, robbery and murder. Humanitarian corridors are needed—food, medicine, ambulances, evacuation of children. We are waiting for active help from international organizations, including the OSCE. Enough words!” he wrote.
08:14 Today, on March 3, the second round of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian sides will take place in Belarus in Bialowieza Forest. First of all, delegations plan to discuss a ceasefire.
Positions of Russia for the second round are:
🔻Crimea is a part of Russia
🔻Recognition of “L/ DNR” within the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions
🔻Demilitarization, “parameters to be discussed”
🔻Denazification
The position of the aggressor looks extremely odd, given the number of killed occupiers and burned Russian equipment.
#stoprussia
08:04 The German Bundeswehr (The Armed Forces of Germany) considers supplying Ukraine with additional weapons from its reserves.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces has sent a very long list to NATO, from medical supplies to ammunition to vehicles,” said Bundeswehr Inspector General Eberhard Zorn.
“Let’s see what else we can provide,” he added. Zorn stressed the importance of Ukraine’s military support. “All the Western partners are supplying weapons, equipment and ammunition. It’s a lot together. If at least half of the anti-aircraft weapons reach the target, it could change the game,” he mentioned.
According to the Inspector General, Germany could also deploy additional forces to NATO’s eastern flank, deploying approximately 150 to 200 additional marines.
07:28 The occupiers fired missiles at Sumy, causing 5 victims of civilians.
On the morning of March 3, Russian troops launched a missile strike on Sumy. This was announced by the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi.
“We woke up today from a powerful missile strike on the territory of our 27th artillery brigade, the military department of the Sumy State University and the cadet corps. Five casualties are in the hospital”.
06:58 Operational information as of 06.00 March 03, 2022 about Russian invasion of Ukraine:
The occupying forces, failing in almost all areas in which they were advancing, resorted to tactics of night shelling of the residential areas in large cities.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine go on steadfastly defending the borders, counterattacking, and blocking the occupiers’ forces in various directions.
In the Volyn direction, the enemy continued to perform demonstrational actions along the state border.
In the Polissya direction, the enemy was seeking to carry out offensive operations in the area of the settlements of Kozarovychi, Vyshhorod, Fastiv, and Obukhiv. The Armed Forces noted the further deployment of Russian field logistics camps in the Borodyanka, Katyuzhanka and Gavronshchyna districts.
In the northern direction, the Russian invaders, without success in the Ukrainian cities of Chernihiv, Nizhyn and Sumy, Lebedyn and Okhtyrka, trying to avoid clashes with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attempted to reach the northern outskirts of Kyiv.
Enemy units and subdivisions were concentrated in the areas of the settlements of Baryshevka, Nova Basan, and Lyubech. Part of the forces to the battalion tactical group of the Northern Fleet of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which had lost combat capability, was regrouping and trying to attack in the direction of Brovary and Kyiv.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy was conducting an offensive operation in the areas of Zolochiv, Kharkiv, and Balakliya, trying to keep on the offensive in the direction of Lozova, and catastrophically in need of replenishment of lost equipment and personnel.
In the Donetsk direction, the occupiers, with the support of artillery, continued their offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of Novy Aidar, Volnovakha and Mariupol. The enemy did not achieve the main goal of capturing Mariupol and reaching the administrative border of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In the Tavriya direction, the enemy did not abandon attempts to conduct warfare. After regrouping and introducing a part of operational reserves, they concentrated the main efforts in the direction of Mykolaiv – Voznesensk.
In the Black Sea Operational Zone, naval groups of the Black Sea Fleet continued to fire on civilian ships and capture sailors.
For the first time, Russian war criminals faced mass deaths of their soldiers and casualties. During the evening briefing, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published information about the losses of the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine: 498 dead and 1,597 wounded. These numbers are much diminished than the real ones reported by the Ukrainian side.
Part of the enemy forces persisted to operate in the areas of settlements Energodar, Vasylivka, Tokmak, Novopetrivka. After regrouping and introducing part of the operational reserves from the 205th separate motorized infantry brigade of the 49th General Army of the Russian Armed Forces, Russian troops carry on the offensive to reach the outskirts of Zaporizhia and Mariupol.
To ensure further landing of tactical airborne troops from the 10th special brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Balovnoe, the invader landed an away team, which was neutralized.
In the waters of the Black Sea, there was a movement of the landing detachment of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation consisting of four large landing ships accompanied by three missile boats in the direction of Odesa.
Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities are suffering from enemy missile strikes. Social networks and well-known information resources are beginning to comment in real-time on the consequences of the impression and the accuracy of enemy missiles.
And most importantly, we appeal to bloggers, experts and ordinary members of the Internet community: your operational information may be of interest to Russian gunners, who may further adjust the next shot of the enemy! Be careful when disseminating information about shelling in real-time.
The enemy is demoralized and continues to suffer losses! Let’s win together!!!
Glory to Ukraine!!!
02:21 At midnight, March 3, 2022, the Russian occupiers carried out air strikes on the city of Izium in Kharkiv region. Six adults and two children were killed in a private house hit by a shell of Russian invaders. All are civilians.
The enemy aimed at the police building, where the fire broke out.
In the city center, significant damage, in particular – from the building of the Executive Committee of the City Council flew out window panes, reported Suspilne:Kharkiv with reference to Deputy Mayor of Izium Volodymyr Matsokin.
00:52 General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Russian occupying forces continue to suffer losses from air strikes and air strikes defense of the Air Force (Air Force Command of the UA Armed Forces)
On March 2, the crews of the Su-24m and Su-25 combat aircraft provided air support to units of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroying columns of Russian military equipment and manpower in Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv oblasts.
During the day, anti-aircraft missile units destroyed three enemy planes and two helicopters of the occupiers.
Believe in the Armed Forces of Ukraine! Let’s win together!
00:50 President Zelenskyy: Key theses
- We are a nation that broke the enemy’s plans in a week. Plans that have been built for years. Meanly. Calculated. With hatred for our country, for our people – for any people who have two things – freedom and heart. But we stopped them. We beat them.. with anything that shoots.
- But Ukrainians are even beating the enemy without weapons.I sincerely admire the heroic civilians of Konotop, Bashtanka, Enerhodar, Melitopol, other cities and villages of Ukraine, who do not let the occupiers in, blocking everything for them: blocking the road, people come out in front of enemy vehicles. It is extremely dangerous, but how courageous!
- (Russian army) These are not warriors of the superpower, these are confused children who were used. Take them home.
- The occupiers will receive only one thing from the Ukrainians – rebuff, fierce rebuff. One that they will forever remember that we don’t give away what is ours. They will remember what the Patriotic War is. For Ukrainians it is the Patriotic War.
- Our army is doing everything to break the enemy completely. Almost 9,000 Russians were killed in one week
- In Mykolaiv direction, occupiers have to take away their KIAs with tens of helicopters. 19, 20 years old – what did they see in life, except the invasion of another’s land? But most of them remain everywhere. Get home with your whole army! Tell your command that you don’t want to die, you want to live. The war must be stopped and peace restored as soon as possible.
- Brilliant result at the UN General Assembly – 141 countries supported a resolution calling on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine immediately. Those who voted for Russia – only 4 – North Korea, Eritrea, Syria, Belarus. These are its friends, and can’t be others – for a state that can not live in peace.
- Held a meeting today with the heads of cities and regions of Ukraine. On the ground they are working hard to organize a “green corridor” to take out civilians and to bring medicine. Volnovakha, cities of Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv regions and in the south of Ukraine. It is very difficult, we are opposed by terror. But I am sure that the terror will lose thanks to our heroes.
- Today I signed the Decree on conferring the title of Hero of Ukraine for 15 of our defenders. All 40 million are like these fifteen heroes! Glory to Ukraine!
