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

On March 27, Russian invaders carried out a massive air raid and lost three planes at once. This was reported on Facebook by the command of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Over the past 24 hours, the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed:

- 4 aircraft;

- 1 helicopter;

- 2 unmanned aerial vehicles;

- 2 cruise missiles.

The Ukrainian air defense system shot down a missile of the russian invaders in the Odessa region. This was announced by the speaker of the Odessa military administration Sergei Bratchuk.

According to him, the successful operation was carried out by the air command of South

Russian occupying troops have damaged more than 730 educational institutions in Ukraine with airstrikes and bombs, Minister of Education Serhii Shkarlett said on the air of the All-Ukrainian telethon.

"We have more than 730 educational institutions damaged, of which 74 were completely destroyed and 139 children, unfortunately, died," he said.

The Russian invaders have stopped their offensive actions near Sumy and are attempting to regroup and send their units to other directions. This is stated in the operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 00:00 on March 27.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine keep inflicting significant losses upon the enemy.

According to available information, over the past five days about 600 bodies of invaders killed in Ukraine, most of whom had served in the 47th Tank Division of the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District, have been brought to Nizhny Novgorod region.

The enemy continues to move additional units from the Pacific Fleet and the Western Military District. At the same time, there has been a significant drop in the number of movements from deep inside Russia.

The head of the Volyn military administration, Yuriy Pogulyaiko, reported on the consequences of a missile strike by Russian invaders in the region:

"Rescuers are working at the site of the missile attack. Initially, there are no casualties. According to the military, the missile was fired from the side of the Republic of Belarus. The situation is under control."

In Vuhledar, Donetsk region, rescuers organized the delivery of drinkable water. Everyone could take the necessary amount. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

There had been no drinkable water in the city for a month since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukrain

A modern field hospital has been set up in the Lviv region, which is designed to treat wounded military personnel and refugees. This was announced by the head of the Rada committee on medical care Mikhail Radutsky.

It is specified that the mobile hospital was transferred to Ukraine by the Netherlands, it is designed for 50 beds.

“There's an operating room, intensive care beds, intensive care units, an X-ray diagnostics department, an ultrasound scan, a clinical laboratory with a blood bank, and an oxygen concentrator in it,” Radutsky said.

The hospital is able to operate without outer electricity due to a diesel generator; has stocks of medicines and consumables for one year of operation at full capacity. Thanks to the Internet connection via StarLink, doctors have access to consulting online with colleagues from other countries.

Zelensky gave his assessment of the new round of peace talks with the Russian invaders in a video message:

"We have a new round of negotiations ahead, because we are seeking peace. Realistically. Without delay. As I was informed, there is already an opportunity and a need for a face-to-face meeting on Turkish territory. That's not bad. We will see what the result will be.

Our priorities in the negotiations are known. Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are not questioned. Effective security guarantees for our state are mandatory. Our goal is also obvious: peace and the soonest restoration of normal life in our native state".

Zelensky on traitors who collaborate with the invaders in the temporarily occupied regions:

"I would like to thank again all our people in Kherson, Kakhovka, Slavutych, and other cities for resisting the invaders. Remember: if the invaders entered a city, it only means that they will have to leave it eventually.

And for those phenomenal fools who are trying to side with the Russian army, I would like to remind this: they abandon their very own people. What do you think they do with traitors? Think about it. Or maybe you have nothing you could use to think, otherwise, you wouldn't become traitors."

Zelensky on his new interview for Russian journalists, currently censored by Kremlin:

"They ruined freedom of speech in their own country, and now they are trying to ruin a neighboring country. Russia pretends it is a global player, and at the same time, it fears a brief talk with a bunch of journalists.

Well, given their reaction, we are on the right track. They are nervous. Maybe they saw that their citizens have more and more questions about what is happening in their country."

New summary of March 27 from the President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

“New round of negotiations is ahead of us and we are looking for peace. Our priorities are known. Sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine are non-negotiable. Current safety guarantees for our country are mandatory. And our goal is pretty obvious – peace and the earliest possible restoration of normal life in Ukraine”.

Significant fires have started in the exclusion zone, which can have serious consequences, Iryna Vereshchuk reports.

However, the control and extinction of the wildfires are impossible due to the capture of the exclusion zone by Russian troops. Radionuclides are released into the atmosphere as a result of combustion, which spread by wind over long distances. It endangers Ukraine and European countries to radioactive pollution.

Mykhailo Podolyak, the advisor to the Head of the President's administration, commended on airstrikes across Ukraine. "Lutsk, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne. More and more strikes every day. Mariupol is being carpet-bombed. The Russians have lost their language, humanity, or civility. Just missiles, bombs, and new attempts to obliterate Ukraine. Does Europe really like this?"

The General Staff informs: Subdivisions of Joint Forces groups (Donetsk and Luhansk directions) reflected 63 enemy attacks in one week.

Our military destroyed:
- 80 tanks,
- 72 units of armed and 48 units of automotive equipment,
- 19 artillery systems,
- 7 unmanned areal vehicles,
- 14 aircrafts, a helicopter and a patrol boat.

Warriors of the Joint Forces also destroyed a modern Russian complex of electronic warfare “Leyer-3” and captured five IFVs.

Oleh Synehubov, the Head of the Kharkiv Regional Administration: The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counterattack in certain directions of the Kharkiv region. Mala Rohan is fully controlled by the Ukrainian army now, all the enemies there were neutralized. Also, the Ukrainian army is currently liquidating the remaining enemies in Vilkhivka. In Oskil, Izum region, an airstrike was launched. An enemy missile hit a residential building. A family of four was killed, a four-year-old child was wounded.

Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, the Chief Commander of the AFU: to discredit Ukraine's Defense Forces the enemy films and spreads staged videos of alleged “Ukrainian military” inhuman treatment to “Russian captives”. I emphasize, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other legislative foreign military units strictly adhere to the norms of international humanitarian law.

Ukraine's Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk on humanitarian corridors: Today, two corridors for Donetsk and Luhansk regions worked with a total of 1099 evacuated civilians. Tomorrow, we are planning to keep working on the Mariupol direction and also launch corridors for the Sumy region.

The Head of Volyn RSA Yuriy Pohulyayko reported two explosions in Volyn region. Those were missile hits at the oil depot. Information on casualties is being clarified.

Thousands of people came to a rally to support Ukraine today in Wien, Austria. Ex-Ambassador of Ukraine in Austria Oleksandr Scherba shared a photo.

Heorhiy Tuka informs on new cases of mining in unexpected places. This time it’s the cover of documents. Be careful and do not touch anything laying in the streets.

On March 27, in the area of responsibility of the Vostok task force, the Russian invaders attempted an unsuccessful attack on the positions of our forces. The enemy attack was repulsed. During the battle, Ukrainian defenders destroyed 15 invaders and one infantry fighting vehicle. As reported, the Russian occupiers have significantly reduced their offensive activity.

Suspicion was issued to the pilot of the RF Armed Forces, who bombed the town of Balakliya in the Kharkiv region by OFAB-250 high-explosive fragmentation bombs, the Office of the Prosecutor General reports. Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down the invaders’ pilot on March 13. For the duration of the investigation, he will be kept in one of the Correctional facilities, defined as a place of detention of prisoners of war.

Results of the 32 days of confrontation to the Russian occupation in the video of the Ministry of Defense. In particular, the video is featuring:

- mining of the Kharkiv region with the remote system "Agriculture",

- destruction of the command point and the supply post of the 35th Army of Russia in the Kyiv region,

- liberation of the villages of Gusarivka and Trostyanets, Poltavka and Malynivka,

- the11th attack on Chornobaiivka,

- the trophy of "Solntsepek" heavy flamethrower salvo fire system.

And more:

Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told CNN that investment in Russia is now "under a big review" and Qatar is not thinking about increasing its investment until conditions improve and there is more political stability.

Ukraine is ready to use British Starstreak man-portable air defense systems in the war against Russia. This was stated by British Defense Minister Ben Wallace in an interview to the Daily Mail.

Wallace remarked that first Ukrainian military men have been drilled to use the Starstreak and have already been deployed with these arms. It has been noted that these MANPADS can be fired from the shoulder at low-flying targets, and the missile develops a speed three times exceeding the speed of sound.

This is how Severodonetsk district in the Luhansk region looks like after shelling by the occupiers.

The President of Ukraine spoke to Russian journalists for an hour and a half. Here is the full video of the conversation. At the same time, the Russian service of the BBC has already written Roskomnadzor demands that the Russian media do not to publish this interview.

US President Joe Biden: My message to the people of Ukraine: We stand with you. Period.

A recent report by the General Staff:

- In the temporarily occupied territories, the enemy continues violating the requirements of International Humanitarian Law, resorts to kidnapping and intimidation of local residents, and holds Ukrainian citizens hostages.

- Due to the undermining of the provision of Russian invaders by the defense forces in the towns of Ivankiv and Oran, the invaders are begging the local population for food, they are not behaving aggressively, the facts of looting have not been recorded.

- the continuation of the militarization by the Russian occupation forces of the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been noted. This seriously increases the risk of damage to the insulation structures built over the 4th power unit of the station after the explosion in 1986.

Yesterday, March 26, Russia simultaneously launched a record of 70 missiles at Ukraine, but only eight of them hit the target. This is reported by the journalists of the Russian investigative project The Insider, citing their sources.

The head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai on the consequences of today's Russian shelling of the Luhansk region:

- in Borovske, a child was killed, two more were injured;
- the enemy was shelling at precise targets in Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Lysychansk, Borovske, Voyevodivka;
- 12 buildings were destroyed;
- As a result of the hostilities, 14 settlements partially remained without electricity, 21 with complete power cut off - a total of 101,526 consumers.

A video that clearly explains why the defenders need real turnstiles, and not the DIY ones:

The leader of “Azov” Andriy Biletskyy: Our military bring down Russian fighter aircraft Su-34 near Izyum in Kharkiv region.

The video clip of the enemy tank T-72B3 being destroyed by Ukrainian ATGM Stuhna.

The Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak: Any fake referendums in the ORDLO (the TOTU) on joining the RF will not be recognized by Ukraine and by the world. Russian attempts to raise the stakes and undermine Ukrainian sovereignty will not be successful.

French President Emmanuel Macron states that he “will not use” the words of American leader Joe Biden who called the head of the occupant state Russia Volodymyr Putin a “butcher” and a war criminal, Le Figaro Magazine informs.

Ukrzaliznytsia starts full-fledged circle train route in Kyiv.

"It will enable citizens of the Left Bank from Voskresenka to Left-bank array, Darnytsya and Bereznyaky to safely and quickly reach the central railway station", the company informs.

The full list of electric trains is the following: Darnytsya (the city electric train platform), Livyy Bereh platform (Bereznyaky), Vydubychi, Kyiv-Demiivskyy, Protasiv Yar, Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyy (Pivnichna stopping platform, behind the Polissya Mall), Karavaevi Dachi, Kyiv-Volynskyy, Borschahivka-Tekhnichna, Svyatoshyn, Rubezhivskyy (Nyvky Park), Syrets, Vyshhorodska, Zenit (Bandera Avenue), Pochayna, Troeschyna-2 (Rusanivski Sady), Troeschyna, Kyiv-Dniprovskyy, Livoberezhna (near the metro station) and the return to Darnytsya.

The fate is 15 UAH.

Davyd Arahamiya, the Head of the Servant of the People faction: Ukraine and Russia will meet for the first time in a long time for a "live" round of negotiation on March 28 – 30 in Turkey.

Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova informs: Occupants carry out mass deportation from the occupied territories of Ukraine.

The invaders claim they deported 439 420 peaceful citizens from Ukraine, 91 673 children included. 90 000 citizens of Ukraine, Moldova and the RF are deported from Kherson region, Russian Ministry of Defense informs. Just in the last 24 hours more than 19 600 peaceful citizens, 3 300 children included, were deported from temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk.

"The scale of forceful displacement is comparable only to deportation brought on by Hitler in WWII", Denisova says and adds that deportation is prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

The Commander of the 13th Tank Regiment that is a part of Kantemiroskaya Division shot himself after the liberation of Trostyanets by the Ukrainian military, The 93rd Kholodnyy Yar Mechanized Brigade reports:

"The 13th number of the regiment appeared to be unlucky to the Russian officer. As well as the number 200 for the Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade which was smashed and partially "twohundreded" in Kharkiv direction".

There is also information on the dismissal of the Comander of the1st Panzer Army of Western Military District (unit 11161, Bakovka) the lieutenant general Serhiy Kisel. The ground being "huge loses and failure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine". (note: to twohundred – to kill a soldier; neologism created from the code name "Cargo 200" meaning "transportation of military fatalities" used in the South European countries).

The Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyy: The price of the freedom is high. Remember it!

Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova informs: More than 10 000 hectares of forests are burning in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone due to hostilities. 31 wildfires are detected. The level of radioactive air pollution grows.

“The control and extinction of the wildfires are impossible due to the capture of the exclusion zone by Russian troops”, – Denisova reports.

According to her radionuclides are released into the atmosphere as a result of combustion, which spread by wind over long distances. It endangers Ukraine, Belarus and European countries to radioactive pollution.

Ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova informs: After the conduction of so-called “referendum” the occupant country might cynically call the offense of the AFU on Donbas an “attack on Russia”.

“The terrorist government of “LNR” understands that the AFU strengthen its positions in was and is scared that Ukraine will liberate temporarily occupied Luhansk. It [the terrorist government] tries to conduct the “referendum” on joining Russia”.

Arestovych on the course of hostilities: the next week or two will be uneven.

In spite of the fact that Ukrainian defense forces perform “small but effective counterattacks” and knock out Russian occupants from the occupied territories the next week or two might bring some other news, – the Advisor of the Head of the President's Office Oleksiy Arestovych warns during the briefing.

“The next week or two will be... uneven. There will be news about our victories and counterattacks. There will be news about difficulties on the Southern territories. And you should be ready for it – emotionally, consciously, organizationally”.

Mariupol City Council informs: An inscription "Children" was made in front of the German theater in solidarity with Mariupol.

Also today on the Word Theater Day the German theater will perform on six stages a series of events dedicated to Mariupol.

The President of Poland Andrzej Duda criticizes the Prime Minister of Hungary Victor Orbán who forbade the supply of the weaponry to Ukraine across the territory of Hungary and renounced to refuse the energy dependence on the RF.

Hungary's position on Ukraine will cost a fortune to Budapest, Duda warned.

“It is hard for me to understand that kind of attitude now facing Russian aggression in Ukraine, deaths of thousands of people in Ukraine, extermination of peaceful citizens, residential areas bombing, houses destruction, international law violation”.

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The Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Ruslan Martsinkiv reports that he was caught under enemy fire in Chernihiv region. He states that he was there with a humanitarian mission but could not reach the regional center because of the shelling.

“Thanks God that everyone is alive, but there are injured. In spite of the danger we delivered the aid necessary for the city”.

Even in darkest times Ukrainian soldiers do not forget about the power of music:

The ATO veteran, popular Ukrainian blogger, now again the fighter of the AFU Valeriy Markus on urgent matters: