Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news

"Soldiers of the 14th Mechanized Brigade shot down the occupiers who were destroying our towns and villages. Minus one bird... Plus one step to Victory!" - MOD. 

Curfew times are changing in Kyiv and the region. From today, 28 March, curfew will start one hour later and end one hour earlier: from 9pm to 6am.

Today 5 mini-markets will be working in the four districts of the capital. Fairs are open from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm. In the Holosiivsky district, the work of mini-fairs starts at 10:00.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine received a list of Russian FSB officers who take part in the criminal activities of the aggressor country in Europe. A list of 620 FSB officers is available at the link.

The chargé d'affaires of the Republic of Slovenia in Ukraine Boshtan Lesyak arrived in Kyiv and started working - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia.

Due to the fighting near Kyiv, two high-voltage lines supplying part of the houses on the right bank were damaged again. Power engineers are rapidly switching critical infrastructure to backup power.

Two high-voltage lines supply the part of the houses in the residential areas of Bilychi, Borshchahivka, Vynohradar, Vitryany Hory and Pushcha-Vodytsya. A total of 82,000 subscribers, which were also disconnected on March 26 due to shelling.

Slovakia has awarded the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky with the Oleksandr Dubcek State Prize, said the Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger. The prize is a Slovak symbol of freedom and hope.

Today, March 28, humanitarian corridors will not be opened in Ukraine for the evacuation of people due to the threat of provocations from the Russian invaders - the head of the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk.

The enemy continues to shell the city of Chernihiv, there was also shelling of the suburbs of Nizhyn - the head of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration Vyacheslav Chaus.

On March 27, at 10 pm, as a result of the enemy's shelling, a fire broke out at one of the fuel storage facilities in Lutsk. At 8:12 a.m. on March 28, the fire was extinguished by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The estimated loss of the enemy's personnel reached 17,000 - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Two people died on Sunday during burning of deadwood. Tragic incidents occurred in the village Bereguifalu of Berehiv district and the village of Klocharky in the Mukachevo district. In total, since the beginning of the month, such fires have killed 8 citizens - the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

As of the morning of March 28: missile and bomb strikes, airstrikes in Kharkiv oblast, an attack on an oil depot in Lutsk, shelling of residential buildings, there are wounded and killed. Сonstantly tense situation in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts - summary of regional state administrations.

143 children were killed and 216 wounded during full-scale combat operations in Ukraine.
Most of the victims are in oblasts: Kyiv - 67, Kharkiv - 49, Donetsk - 53, Chernihiv - 38, Mykolaiv - 30, Luhansk - 27, Zaporizhia - 21, Kherson - 24, the city of Kyiv - 16, Zhytomyr - 15 and Sumy - 14 - Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

Today Ukrzaliznytsia is launching a ring train route in Kyiv. The electric train route passes through the Borshchahivka and Syrets residential areas, and at an accessible distance from the Obolon.

Electric train stops: Darnytsya (city electric train platform), Left Bank platform (Bereznyaki), Vydubychi, Kyiv-Demiivskyi, Protasiv Yar, Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi (Northern platform, behind Polissya shopping center), Karavayevi Dachi, Kyiv-Volynskyi, Borshchahivka-Technichna, Borshchahivka, Sviatoshyn, Rubezhivsky (Nyvky Park), Syrets, Vyshhorodska, Zenit (Bandery Avenue), Pochayna, Troieschyna-2 (Rusanivsky Sady), Troyeshchyna, Kyiv-Dniprovskyi, Livoberezhna (near the metro) and return to Darnytsya.

Ukrainian Railways published a schedule of evacuation trains for March 28, which also includes trains for international routes.

Putin's army has been most successful in the south of Mariupol, where fighting continues as Russia seeks to seize the port - British intelligence.

In China's cyberspace, Ukrainians are opposing the "wall of propaganda" in an attempt to enlist the support of Chinese society.

Summary from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on the situation on the western borders:

- On the day of March 27, more than 63,000 people and more than 12,000 vehicles crossed Ukraine's western borders with the EU and Moldova.

- Almost 41,000 people left Ukraine. 28,000 of them chose the Ukrainian-Polish border to cross the border.

- 22,000 people arrived in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. More than 19,000 of them are Ukrainians.

- Since the beginning of open-armed aggression, about 460,000 of our citizens have returned to Ukraine.

Photos of houses destroyed by the Russian invaders in Mariupol that were provided by the Azov Regiment:

590 Starlink satellite Internet stations from SpaceX were handed over to Ukrainian medical and healthcare institutions - Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine.

Rubizhne remains under the Ukrainian flag, and yesterday the Armed Forces of Ukraine expelled the enemy from one of the town's districts. The main hotspots in Rubizhne, Severodonetsk, Popasna. The Russians do not give up trying to capture the city, they have no success. Evil is disrupted in peaceful towns neighborhoods - the head of Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai.

In the evening of March 27 in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, the territory of a private estate was on fire due to getting hit by remains of a downed rocket. At 11:12 pm the rescue service 101 received a report of a fire, at 01:24 it was extinguished.

At the Oscars, the producers showed a message which asked to honor victims with a moment of silence and called on the audience to express their support for Ukraine in any way.

The Russian invaders shelled Rubizhne in the Luhansk region again. A house was damaged, the body of one killed person was found. The wounded man was sent by ambulance to the hospital. The number of victims is still being determined - the Regional State Administration.

The next evacuation train from the Luhansk region will leave at approximately 2:00 p.m. from Novozolotarivka. Evacuation for residents of Severodonetsk is planned at the city's Palace of Culture at 10:00 a.m. - Regional State Administration.

In an interview with Mark Feygin, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the chief of the Office of the President of Ukraine, described the positive and negative scenarios for Mariupol and the area of the Joint Forces Operation. In his opinion, there will be "some middle option".

Summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 6 am on March 28:

- The Defense Forces continue to conduct a defense operation in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Northeastern directions. Defensive battles continue in the areas of Topolske, Kamyanka, Sukha Kamyanka.

- Our military forces effectively restrain the advance of the enemy in the directions of Gulyaipole and Zaporizhia.

- In the Avdiivka direction, Ukrainian soldiers repel the assault actions of the invaders in the area of Verkhnotoretske.

- In the Volyn and Siverskyy directions, the conduct of defense operations and other tasks in the defined areas continues. The situation is under control and has not changed significantly.

- The military forces and means of defense of Kyiv are restraining the enemy, which is trying to break through the defense from the northwest and east to take control of key roads and settlements.

- In the south, the main efforts of the Defense Forces are focused on organizing defense activities in the cities of Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhia, and Mykolayiv, maintaining defined areas of the sea coast, protection and defense of critical infrastructure. Stabilization operations and territorial defense tasks continue in the defined areas.

- In the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, the Joint Forces have repelled 5 enemy attacks in 24 hours. Ukrainian soldiers destroyed 2 tanks, an armored personnel vehicle and one personnel vehicle. Also, the enemy had losses in personnel. Data on quantity is being established.

- The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 4 aircraft, 1 helicopter, 2 UAVs of various types, and 2 cruise missiles in the previous day. The Air Force was also involved in striking certain ground targets of occupiers.

The hacker group NB65, linked to the Anonymous group, hacked the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) and promised to release the stolen information. The main assets of VGTRK are the Kremlin propagandist TV channels Russia-1, Russia 24, and RTR Planeta.

The total amount of data that hackers promise to release shortly is 870 GB.

The besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol repeats the fate of Aleppo - the commercial capital of Syria, which underwent massive destruction in 2016 with the support of Russia - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

March 27, a damaged car Honda CR-V is found on the road between villages Shevelivka and Gusarivka of Izyum district.

Preliminary, russian militants shelled the car with a family. Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office informs in Telegram.

A killed family is found in the car: a woman, a man, and a 3 year old child.

The Prosecutor's Office published scary photos. A prelegal investigation has been launched.

A curfew has been introduced on the territory of the Sumy region from 20:00 to 5:00. This was announced by the head of the Sumy military administration Dmitry Zhivitsky in Telegram.

According to the head of the OMA, during this time it is forbidden for citizens to be outside or visit public places without a special pass. Any traffic is also prohibited during the curfew

During the 94th Academy Awards, a moment of silence was observed in memory of the victims of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as it was reported in Twitter.

The organizers of the American Film Academy displayed an inscription on the screen with a call to support Ukraine and its citizens, who are now in need of food and medicine.

#Oscars holds moment of silence in support of Ukraine. https://t.co/1H1Y9jC9bl#oscars pic.twitter.com/eIdWgcGAom

— ABC News (@ABC) March 28, 2022

The evacuation from Energodar, scheduled for the morning of March 28, will not take place - the Zaporozhye Regional Military Administration did not give the green light to its formation. This was announced by the mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov in Telegram.

The Mayor appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and Head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA Oleksandr Starukh with a request to organize a green corridor at the state level for residents of the temporarily occupied Enerhodar to provide residents with the opportunity to safely evacuate.

To protect itself from a possible russian attack, Germany considers a possibility to purchase an anti missiles defense system similar to the one Israel has. The cancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announced, Reuters informs.

The cancellor did not specify the type of a anti missiles system was considered by Berlin.

Answering the question if it is about a larger range system than Patriot system is,
Scholz said: "We have to realise that we have a neighbour ready to use violence to protect its interests".

Most probably the destruction of the large military airborne ship "Saratov" by Ukrainian Army will make Naval Forces of russia hesitate acting near the seaside of Ukraine. It is said in the notice of British Intelligence published in Twitter by the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain.

"Most probably the destruction of the airborne ship "Saratov" in Berdiansk will destroy confidence of Naval Forces of russia to hold operations close to the seaside of Ukraine in future," it is said in the report.

38000 citizens in Donetsk region stay without water supply as a result of russian occupiers shelling. The press service of Joint Forces Operation of Ukraine informs.

It is detailed that the invaders damaged the electricity line - the pumping station of the channel Siversjkyy Donets - Donbas remains without electricity. Citizens of the villages Toretsjk, Pivnichne, Pivdenne, Zaliznychne, Scherbynivka remain without water. There is water supply not inly houses but also at schools, kindergartens and hospitals.

According to OJF because of the shelling, five boiler houses have been damaged - 5000 citizens in 77 houses of the region remain without heat.

Hackers of the NB65 Group that is connected to Anonymous, broke General Russian Television and Radio company - it has access to the channels Russia 24, Russia 1 and RTR Planet. This was announced by Anonymous in Twitter.

In the nearest future the hackers intend to publish 870 GB data VDTRK.

JUST IN: Hacking group 'NB65' (@xxNB65), affiliated with #Anonymous has hacked and breached the VGTRK (All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company). Total data being prepared for release is 870GB. #DDoSecrets will release it in the near future. #OpRussia #FCKPTN pic.twitter.com/W2sTvoVQG9

— Anonymous TV

American militants hold first scale training in Arctic - USA realise the importance of their positions fortification in the North, due to the invasion of russia to Ukraine. The New York Times writes about this.

In March about 8000 USA militants participated in scale training in Artic. Air Forces of USA transferred dozens of F-35 aircrafts to Alaska.

Pentagon plans to enrease their presence and potential in Arctic working on cold weather skills recovery which have been neglected for dozens of years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As NYT cites, Alaska is already one of the most militarised states of USA where more than 20000 soldiers serve.

Vladimir Putin has not achieved his goals by the invasion to Ukraine but received the opposite result. The cancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz declared this, ARD writes this.

"Actually all Ukraine grew together as a nation ", he said speaking about the opposition of Ukrainians to the russian occupation of cities.

According to Scholz, putin really thought russian army would be welcomed in Ukraine. As the cancellor stressed, the actions of the head of Kremlin promoted fortification of the eastern flange of NATO.

Russia is blocking the Black Sea seaside of Ukraine, isolating international naval trade. British Intelligence informs about this, Reuters writes.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain, military naval forces of russia continue to strike missiles on the whole territory of Ukraine from the aquatorium of Black Sea.

March 27 at the squares of more than 30 cities of the world, people gathered to judge the war in Ukraine started by russian military criminals and to support Ukraine. This is informed by the embassy of Ukraine in Poland.

The diplomatic department published pictures from 10k meeting in Warsaw that joint the charitable telemaraphone to support Ukraine Save Ukraine.

Participiants of the meeting called world leaders to act radically to save Ukrainians who fight not only fir their country future but also for the future of tge whole Europe.

Ukrainians are using actively the eVorog chatbot, and a number of losses of the russian occupiers grow each day. This is informed by Ministry of digital transformation.

According to AFU data, more than 16000 of personnel and more than vehicle pcs have been destroyed since the war started.

They stress it at the Ministry of Digital Transformation that these figures continue to grow thanks to everybody who informs AFU about the enemy location via the eVorog: t.me/evorog_bot.

Now you can do tge following with the help of the chatbot:

- choose vehicle of the occupiers from the list or to insert it by yourself;

- time when you saw the enemies can be not inserted manually but chosen from the proposed time in the bot;

- indicate a number of occupiers or vehicle;

- send applications without photos or video.

For today more than 200k Ukrainians gave used the chat already.

Luhansk Medical University moved to Rivne region due to military actions. This was informed by the Head of Rivne Military Administration Vitaliy Koval.

It is detailed that teachers and management are already accepting first students, living places have been found for them. Now they are working to transfer the science and technical base. Classes will be hold on line.

It has been already the second movement of the university. Earlier it was transferred from Luhansk to Rubizhne.

Near Gostomel, a russian missile hit a house of the frontman of "Druga rika" band Valeriy Harchyshyn. He wrote about this at Facebook.

According to the musician, his house has been burnt. He added that he had put not only money, but also his soul into it, and he had planned to move his parents there.

Harchyshyn added that there were nobody in the house during the attack - his wife and children are safe abroad. Only two cats stayed at the house - we do not know if they are alive.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned Germans of the economic losses caused by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Spiegel reports.

"Hard days await us in Germany, too" Steinmeier said.

The president added that strengthening the sanctions against Russia would inevitably bring uncertainty and losses to Germans. "Solidarity and support, he stressed, "Ukraine will need them for a long time to come."

The next round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia may take place in Istanbul. This was discussed by telephone between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. It is reported by Anadolu.

Erdogan urged Putin to stop the aggression in Ukraine and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the cities.

"Highlighting the need to establish a ceasefire and peace regime between Russia and Ukraine as soon as possible and improve the humanitarian situation in the region, President Erdogan said that Turkey will continue to contribute to this process in every possible way," the statement said.

On March 27, the Armed Forces of Ukraine began a counter-offensive in some areas in the Kharkiv region. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synehubov.

"As of today we can confidently say that Mala Rohan is completely under the control of our troops and has been cleared of the invaders. We are continuing to clear Vilkhivka of the remaining Russian troops. We are chasing the invaders to the border with the Russian Federation," said the head of the Regional Military Administration.

Russian invaders carried out air strikes on Oskol in the Izium district.

On the evening of March 27, residents of Zhytomyr heard explosions, some had windows shaking in their houses, but there is no confirmation yet that the city was hit by a missile or bomb attack. This was announced by the mayor of Zhytomyr Sergey Sukhomlin in a video message on Facebook.

According to the mayor, that could be an effect of the Ukrainian air defense system were shooting down missiles.