Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news
Early in the morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine and launched a direct full-scale invasion. Ukraine repulses the enemy. As of April 28, 2022, more than 22800 russian servicemen, thousands of units of military equipment (187 planes, 155 helicopters, 970 tanks, 2389 armored vehicles, 1688 machines, 582 artillery / rocket artillery systems, 8 ships and more) have been eliminated.
Severshchina resistance forces have defeated another group of orcs near Pryluky.
Our defenders added another Uragan multiple rocket launcher to the fleet of the occupants, and another one was shot down, the Defence Ministry has said.
Security Service of Ukraine received data on the military tactics of russians: “to be f*cked by Ukraine – to hide, to be f*cked one more time – again to hide”.
And again, and again.
It looks like there is one small disadvantage in this scheme – it can be applied until there is anybody to hide.
And according to those occupiers’ conversations intercepted by SSU it will not last for a long time, as the losses of the enemy are huge.
This is what one russian occupier being near Mariupol says: “We are hiding *** They f*ck us*******They say **** we took, we took”, and we are f*cked here all they time. I am tired *** of bandaging and to load limbs of 200th – so many, many, many. We lack MAZ trucks already ***”.
Even Kadyrovtsy division here cannot save the occupiers: “Those *** Kadyrovtsy retreated? And they do not care*** And we stay, and we get all the time.”
Schwarzenegger addresses to russian soldiers: “Do not be like my farther. Do not repeat his destiny”.
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In Kyiv region an enemy’s helicopter KA-52 is hit by Ukrainian solders in Kyiv region, 72nd Mechanized Brigade of Chorny Zaporozhtsi informs. T
here were detected 2 enemy’s helicopters entering affected area of Ukrainian Army.
As a result of antiaircraft work of the Infantry Forces, one helicopter of the enemy was damaged.
The invaders were forced to go back, their military task was broken.
Two missiles were shot down by the air defence forces in Dnipropetrovsk Region and an enemy UAV was destroyed in the Kharkiv direction, the East Air Command has reported.
Russian occupiers stole 620 mln L of water after they destroyed a dam of Northern Crimea channel.
"Kyiv will hold out - all of Ukraine will hold out," an appeal by arts and culture celebrities.
Video instruction from the Special Operations Forces Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on how to use the Stinger man-portable air defence system.
It can take from several days up to a week and a half to agree on controversial issues of a potential agreement between Ukraine and the country occupier Russia. And after “the peace” is set, we will create a strong border and will treat russia as cold as a country that broke in to our home to kill us deserves”, the Advisor of the Office of the President Myhailo Podolyak said.
He informed that Ukraine wants to detail a concrete plan of bringing out russian troops in the agreement, “to verify it legally and receive support of our partners .” Podolyak believes that after this russia will have no other option but to retreat immediately with its armed forces.”
“The Vien Convention will come into force for both parties on signing the agreement. It clearly states that a peace treaty can be cancelled if warring countries do not bring out their troops from the opponent’s territory”, the official added.
As for the agreement result, the negotiator says that it can only finalize an acute phase of the conflict.
Today the occupiers attacked unarmed Chernigiv civilians using heavy artillery again, city police informs.
There are dead and injured. There is a USA citizen among them.
Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba today called on Russian leader Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Akiba told a news conference that Putin's actions in putting Russia's nuclear forces on high alert had horrified survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and many others.
The former mayor of Hiroshima has asked Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to meet with Putin and other heads of states with nuclear weapons to convey to them the demand of the hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) to abandon the use of such weapons.
The occupiers will not be able to distribute electricity from Zaporizhzhy NPP to Crimea, Head of Ukrenegro Volodymyr Kudrytskyy informed.
“From technical side to join Zaporizhzhy VPP to Crimea is a story of launching a rocket into space with the help of a catapult. There is no such line that makes it possible to joint ZH NPP to Crimea. They are not connected by network infrastructure”, Kudrytskyy informed.
The United States will send 100 Switchblade 300 and 600 kamikaze drones to Ukraine.
Switchblade guided missiles were developed by the American company AeroVironment. These are robotic smart bombs equipped with cameras, guidance systems and explosive warheads – like Javelin surface-to-air missiles are.
They can be programmed to automatically attack targets many kilometres away, and can retain over targets until it's time to strike. Ammunition can be launched from land, sea or air platforms.
The US military calls them “bees”.
The song “Enough”. Sasha Chemerov feat Zhenya Galych
128 Separate Mountain Assault Brigade - Zakarpattia Legion prepares shells for the Moscals with instructions on "How to surrender correctly".
Chernihiv. During the demolition work, the rescuers got the family out of the rubble. The people were dead: two three-year-old siblings (a boy and a girl), their older twelve-year-old sister and their parents.
On the 16th of March, the police of the Luhansk region has documented 20 cases of shelling of residential buildings and civilian infrastructure of the region.
As a result of enemy shelling, there are killed and wounded among the civilian population.
In addition, 15 apartment and private buildings, as well as facilities of private companies, were damaged.
Oleksiy Arestovych, advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, briefly described the situation on the front.
→ Yesterday the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a command post of one of the Russian armies which are invading Ukraine.
"This is a huge achievement. It probably means the deaths of several generals and consequently a pause and disruption in the enemy's combat operations," advisor to the Presidential Office`s Head explained.
→ Traditionally, our Air Force performed at its best yesterday: five Russian aircraft, two helicopters, one UAV and several cruise missiles will never threaten Ukrainians again.
→ The enemy, realising that it is failing on military issues, traditionally for the Russian army bombs civilian targets. The world community must respond accordingly.
Volodymyr Klychko thanked the United States and Great Britain for their support of Ukraine.
Mihhail Kõlvart, the mayor of Tallinn, has arrived at Lviv.
Since the beginning of the war, Estonia has taken in more than 22000 Ukrainians as well as raised 700,000 euros for Ukraine.
Amid Ukraine's ongoing attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Russian occupying country, Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, outlined Russia's current tactics in this war on Twitter for the global community.
According to the official from Bankova Street, the occupiers' tactics are now as follows:
→ knitting positional battles on the front lines;
→ local "cauldrons" of Russians for civilians;
→ targeted strikes on civilian hideouts;
→ delaying decisions on humanitarian corridors;
→ active attempts to destabilise public opinion in Ukraine and provoke internal conflicts.
Syrian mercenaries consider taking part in the war on russian’s behalf as a chance to desert further or to migrate illegally to EU countries, Main Directorate of the Reconnaissance of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine informs.
The Command of russian military base in Hmeimim was given an order to send up to 300 soldiers daily to Ukraine. March 15, 150 mercenaries were sent from Hmeimim military base to Russia to participate in military actions against Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian Military Reconnaissance, in the nearest future it is planned to transfer ammunition, military vehicle, and other resources to provide for russian occupiers forces from Syria to Russia and belorus.
The President of Syria Bashar Hafez al-Assad promised to provide 40 000 mercenaries to Russia for its war in Ukraine.
When recruited, mercenaries are promised to fulfil only policy functions, still recently they say about direct participation in military actions against Ukrainian Army.
Also, more than 30 injured mercenaries have arrived to Hmeimim from Russia, which influenced “fighting spirit” of Syrians a lot.
The crew of the flagship of the Ukrainian research fleet, the icebreaker Noosphere, which arrived in Chile the other day, expressed their support for all of Ukraine and every one of its defenders.
As the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on his Facebook page, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have stopped the advancing of Russian military equipment in the direction of Kamianka, Kharkiv Region on the 16th of March.
According to him, the units of the newly formed 437th Training Regiment and the battalion-tactical group of the 26th Tank Regiment of the 47th Tank Division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were destroyed.
The response of Olaf Scholz, the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the Zelensky's speech in the Bundestag.
“I thank Zelenskyy for his convincing words in the Bundestag. We see that Russia is waging its brutal war with terrible losses every day. We are trying to do everything possible to give diplomacy a chance and end the war”.
Russia does not intend to comply with the requirements of the International Court of Justice in The Hague and stop the invasion of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 12:00 on March 17.
The enemy does not leave attempts to reach the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Unsuccessfully.
To constrain the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is trying to block the settlements north of the capital.
At the same time, the enemy does not refuse to launch the missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and other regions where active hostilities are not being waged.
In the Volyn direction, intensive use of the territory and infrastructure of Belarus by the group of Russian troops is recorded for delivering strikes on Ukraine and logistical support for the group of occupying forces operating in the Polissya direction.
There is still a possibility of participation of certain units of the armed forces of Belarus in hostilities on the side of the Russian Federation.
In the Polissya direction, the enemy made attempts to capture the previously occupied lines, which were lost as a result of the successful actions of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It does not have success in this direction, it suffers losses. They are trying to regroup troops and establish logistics.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy did not carry out active offensive operations. Performs chaotic attacks on the positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tries to conduct reconnaissance.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the infidels tried to carry out offensive operations from the area of the city of Izyum but were unsuccessful.
The Russian invaders are reinforcing the grouping with additional units of the 1st Tank Army and coastal units of the Baltic Fleet.
In the Donetsk and Tauride directions, the enemy carried out offensive operations. Had partial success in the Rubizhne area (fixed on the western and northwestern outskirts of the city, moving towards the southern part of the city). On the Popasnyansky and Volnovakha directions, they conducted unsuccessful assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnyotoretsk and Marinka. Took a loss. Regroup troops.
The assault on the city continues in the Mariupol direction.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the invaders did not carry out active offensive operations.
In the Pivdennobugsky direction, the enemy carried out reconnaissance, carried out engineering equipment of the positions occupied. He tried to carry out offensive actions in the Kryvyi Rih direction, took control of the settlement Mala Schesternya, however, did not have a general success and fixed in their positions.
In the Taurida direction, the enemy continued to build up the system of logistics for the grouping of troops. A collection point for damaged equipment has been deployed at the Dzhankoy airfield.
The aggressor country Russian Federation is conducting powerful information and psychological special operations aimed at convincing everyone that Ukraine is abandoning or losing the peace talks with Moscow. This was announced at a briefing by Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the head of the President's Office.
He emphasized that the position of President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leadership of the country is that Ukraine (in the agreement) should be recognized within the borders as of 1991.
"Everything we agree on should be better than before the war, because why there are victims of the Ukrainian people then? That is, you have nothing to worry about. We care about both the state and the people here. Because we are with you and there is the state and the people. And we will never - in words - NEVER give up our national interests," - Arestovich emphasized.
Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said the release of civilians from the rubble of the drama theater has begun in Mariupol.
The building withstood the impact of a superpower aircraft bomb and protected the life of people hiding in the bomb shelter by itself.
Work is underway to unlock the basement. Alive adults and children are exiting from there.
There is currently no information about the dead or wounded under the rubble of the theater.
The airstrike on this building, which is marked on all sides with the words "children" is an act of genocide and a terrible crime against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed a speech for the German Bundestag. In his address, he reproached Germany for delaying sanctions against the Russian Federation and with the issue of Ukraine's accession to the European Union.
One person died and two were injured as a result of rocket fragments hitting a multi-story building in the Darnitsky district of Kyiv. Also, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the explosion damaged a neighboring house. Rescuers are still at work on the place.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the World War III may have already begun. He mentioned this during the interview to American channel NBC.
Lithuanian parliament unanimously approved the resolution calling the United Nations to close the sky over Ukraine. The deputies call out the United Nations to take immediate measures on providing no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop mass deaths of civilians.
There appeared a bot savior from fake news, not checked information, outright lies and russian federation propaganda in Ukraine.
The East air command has reported that two enemy aircraft were destroyed by air defence forces over Dnipropetrovsk Region during the night. No details have been provided yet.
The KCSA said which ground public transport routes run on 17 March.
Russian occupiers escaped shamefully during a fight with soldiers of the 128th separate Mountain Infantry Zakarpatya brigade, leaving the weapon and vehicles. Our soldiers got the trophies – APV-1 and towed uanti-tank gun MT-12 “Rapira” of 100 mm caliber. Everything is fine and ready to be used in military tasks. From now on they will be used against their former owners. - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Total losses of the enemy as of March 17:
Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov who spent 6 days in captivity of occupiers and who was exchanged for nine conscript soldiers, recorded a video in which he expresses gratitude to his city citizens and to the President.
One more trophy of soldiers from Special Operations Forces – russian RLS “Fara”. This portative radio location station developed for locations reconnaissance, people and vehicle detection, direction and correction of fire by detected targets.
Source: Ministry of Defence
On March 17 humanitarian corridors will work along the following routes:
1. Mariupol – Mangush – Tokmak – Vsaylivka – Kamianske – Zaporizhia. Busses will be leaving from Zaporizhia to Berdiansk. There is a possibility to get fuel for private vehicles that people will be using to evacuate.
2. Borodianka – Druzhnia – Zagalci – Potashnia – Piskivka – Mygalky – Bila Krynitsia – Khomivka – Berezci – Radomyshl – Potashnia – Kocheriv – Zhytomyr. Busses for evacuation will be leaving from Zhytomyr.
3. Shevchenkove – Rudnia – Semypolky – Kalytianske – Kozelets – Oster – Krekhaiv – Rozhny – Pukhivka – Pogreby – Brovary. Busses for evacuation will be leaving from Brovary.
Humanitarian aid (food and medications) will be sent to:
Kharkiv oblast: Vovchansk
Kyiv oblast: Gostomel, Bucha, Semypolky, Markivtsi, Opanasiv.
American company Qualcomm, one of the largest producers of semiconductor components, stopped to sell its products to companies from Russia.
The UK, Albania, France, Ireland, Norway and the US have requested a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. The meeting will focus on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. It is scheduled for 21:00 ( Kyiv time) on 17 March.
Kyiv is gradually preparing for a resumption of the education process. It has been decided to involve schoolchildren in existing online programmes and lessons - KCSA.
Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov exchanged for nine Russian conscripts - Presidential Office.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has largely come to a halt on all fronts and Russian forces continue to suffer heavy losses. Russian troops have made minimal progress on land, sea and air in recent days and continue to suffer heavy losses - British intelligence.
09:00. A nationwide minute's silence for all Ukrainians killed, both military and civilian, because of the Russian invasion.
Electricity tariffs in Ukraine will not increase during martial law – Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko.
From March 16 to 17, the Russians staged a hell in Rubizhne, the shelling lasted all night, at least 27 houses were damaged. At least five other fires took place in Popasna and one in Severodonetsk. Information on the victims and the dead is to be updated – the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai.
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