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

An extraordinary session of the Kherson Regional Council took place today over Zoom, as per the procedural regulations.

During the session, the resolution was adopted that Kherson is Ukraine with 44 votes in favour. Our country is unitary and united.

The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell fears that Russian president Vladimir Putin may attack a NATO country.

“There is serious concern that Putin will keep attacking, and we need to contain his attacks here,” he said. Borrell also added that Ukraine needs support, and Russia needs to be isolated from the international community.

A week ago, investigative journalist of Bellingcat group fame Christo Grozev told Yulia Latynina in an interview that members of the Kremlin elite said that Putin was ready to resort to “restrained use of tactical nuclear weaponry” against one of the NATO countries to “show them what is what”.

"Bayraktar. Destruction of the Russian Armed Forces' control point. Minus one more control point of the Russian occupation troops on our territory," Valeriy Zaluzhniy, the Ukrainian armed forces' commander-in-chief, has said.

“Our anti-aircraft defenders have just downed a Su-34 with their MANPADS. It is now official,” member of the 950th brigade Yurii Kochevenko informed.

In Russia, sporadic publications have started to appear about the losses of the Russian occupiers who have invaded Ukraine.

"It seems that 'no losses' and 'quick military operation' have already become a meme even in Russia. But so far the information about the casualties is still trying to be downplayed and smeared thinly. This sporadic publication is already starting to sober up the members of Solovyov's fan club," wrote Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the head of the Interior Affairs Ministry.

The advisor to the head of the presidential office, Mykhaylo Podolyak, the head of the Servants of the People party, David Arahamiya, and the deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, took a walk around Kyiv.

79% of residents of France, Germany, Italy and Poland approve of economic and financial sanctions against Russia, 67% approve of providing military equipment to Ukraine, 71% support Ukraine's membership in the European Union.

These are the results of the survey conducted by Ifop at the request of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) and Jean-Jaurès Foundation.

Asya Klimova, a 32-year-old Russian woman, was killed in the shelling of the TV tower in Kyiv on 1 March, Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko's advisor has said.

Klimova was reported missing by her brother on 3 March. According to him, she left the house, headed in the direction of the underground station "Dorogozhychi" (it is located near the TV tower) and has not been in touch since then. One of Klimova's friends said that she was identified by her tattoo.

Klimova was born in the Nizhniy Novgorod region. She moved to Kyiv about six months ago and had a temporary residence visa.

In a last video on her Instagram, Klimova said that she had "never once encountered any angry reactions" to the fact that she was Russian and spoke only Russian everywhere.

The humanitarian convoy heading to Mariupol was looted at every checkpoint throughout the entire Russian-controlled stretch of the way until Tokmak, with Russian invaders forcefully taking food, clothes, and hygiene products, Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration reports.

From Tokmak, a Russian patrol accompanied the convoy. As of 6 PM, the head of the convoy passed Zelenivka, Prymorskyi District, in the direction of Berdiansk.

Address by Azov regiment deputy commander, friend of Kalyna, on the situation in Mariupol.

"The situation in Mariupol is difficult. Despite all our defensive actions and counterattacks, the enemy horde continues to advance.

Heavy battles are taking place for every street, for every house, despite the fact that the city has been under siege since March 1. The local population and citizens of other countries who remain in Mariupol are being mercilessly eliminated. Enemy aircraft continue to drop bombs and artillery mercilessly destroys residential areas.

The locals are preparing Molotov cocktails for resistance against the occupier.

I urge the country's military and political leadership to make every effort to ensure the evacuation of citizens to non-occupied Ukrainian territory.

We hear and see that the latest weapons systems are coming into Ukraine, Bayraktars and our aviation are in operation. Let us apply all this in our direction as well.

Let us strike at the rear of the enemy. We are not giving up. We are waiting to go on a decisive offensive together to defeat the enemy.

We are on our land. Glory to the nation."

“Javelin” instead of “Vasylyny”. Motivating song-parody devoted to all the militants who defend Ukraine heroically.

Arestovych: By mid-April, Russian troops will be on the defensive - and real negotiations will begin.

According to him, when Russian troops stand up, Ukrainian forces will know where they are. The enemy will be "driven into the ground" by artillery, missile troops, aviation, special operations forces, mechanised and other Ukrainian units.

Arestovych believes that Russian troops can hold out in a position defence for a month at the most. However, he predicts that as soon as Russian troops lose their ability to act actively, Russian authorities will immediately move to "real negotiations" on international platforms.

Today, Ukrainian border guards fended off the offensive of an enemy group in an area near Mariupol they are responsible for.

As a result of the engagement, 15 Russian service members were killed and two captured. The rest fled.

A new drone of the occupiers was captured by Ukrainian militants, Ministry of Defence informs.

“Now one more “bird” of occupiers, captured by Ukrainian solders, joined the Good and will help us to protect our country – it is said in the notice.

The international payment system PayPal will block the e-wallets of Russians starting 18 March.

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) calls on Ukrainians to send the data on enemy equipment movement via the official chatbot.

Scan the QR code or add the Telegram bot yourself on @stop_russian_war_bot


Every message will be verified by SBU first and then relayed to the military for processing.

The information submitted needs to be clear and structured as follows:

1. The city, region, and time of sighting, geolocation data (if available)

2. Count and type of the spotted force

3. Additional information about the direction of movement and objectives

4. Distinct features of suspicious people

SBU publishes the results of the chatbot’s operation daily. Our military appreciates every precise coordinates received.

A Russian fighter jet was shot down by a mobile air defence group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Izyum district at around 12:00 today, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Sinegubov, has said.

The enemy aircraft was destroyed from a Stinger man-portable antiaircraft defence system. The occupier's fighter jet went up in smoke and downed on the territory of the Russian Federation's Belgorod Region.

Mariupol lost six more citizens today because of the enemy’s shelling. Two of them are children. A lot of injured. Two more children are in difficult condition. The Azov-Mariupol informs about this.

Adults were cooking meal next to the open fire in the yard of the Central district as there is no electricity and gas in the buildings, children were next to them. During that time russian aviation continued shelling peaceful districts.

Russian occupiers plan to hold a “referendum” in occupied Kherson on the creation of so called “Kherson people’s republic” against citizens will, Lyudmyla Denisova ombudsman informs.

Now occupiers call to deputies of local regional rada and propose to ”cooperate”.

Denisova stressed that according to the Hague convention 1907, the Geneve convention 1949, additional protocol 1 to the Geneve convention 1977, authority of occupiers’ does not come into force at the occupied territory and must stick to the law active at that territory.

The Russians shelled a convoy of women and children in Kyiv Region, the Defence Ministry's Defence Intelligence Department has said.  

On 11 March, while attempting to evacuate from the village of Pobeda (Baryshevsky district, Kyiv region) towards the village of Ostroluchya along the agreed "green" corridor, the occupiers shot at a convoy of civilians, which consisted exclusively of women and children.

Seven dead. One of them is a child. The exact number of wounded is not yet known.

After the shelling, the occupiers forced the remnants of the convoy to return to the village of Pobeda and are not letting them out of there. It is now almost impossible to establish communication and provide humanitarian and medical assistance.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the people of Italy.

“Kadyrov Squad” shot to death twelve injured russian militants, the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security informs citing Ukrainian reconnaissance.

It happened in temporary occupied Borodyanka in Kyiv region about 16:00, March, 12.

Those injured shot were waiting for evacuation to Belarus. They belonged to the military regiment 06705 which is dislocated in Borzya town, Zabaikalskiy region.

“Kadyrov Squad” shot to death twelve injured russian militants, the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security informs citing Ukrainian reconnaissance.

It happened in temporary occupied Borodyanka in Kyiv region about 16:00, March, 12.

Those injured shot were waiting for evacuation to Belarus. They belonged to the military regiment 06705 which is dislocated in Borzya town, Zabaikalskiy region.

In the Chernihiv Region, Ukrainian military has liberated two settlements and prevented the enemy from setting up a pontoon river crossing.

“As a result, over 10 units of the enemy equipment captured,” - the North operative command reports.

200 persons were evacuated from Vugledar and Volnovakha districts.

Police transported several buses with women, children, and old people. Citizens by their own transport joined them. The column was accompanied by police.

Soldiers from the Azov regiment show what happened to the city of Bucha after the occupiers came there.

As of 1 p.m. March 12, 79 children have been killed and around 100 wounded since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ombudsman Lyudmyla Denysova has said.

She provided a few recent examples. An 8-year-old girl and a boy suffered as a result of shelling of the residential buildings in the town of Polohy, Zaporizhzhya region - their legs were blown off. The wounded children were taken away in an unknown direction by the Russian military.

Yesterday, the occupiers were targeting a mosque in Mariupol where 86 Turkish citizens were sheltering. Among them were 34 children. Their fate is still unknown.

In Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian citizen was reported a suspicion of treason.

According to the investigation, since February 24 to March 1, a suspected person has been gathering and transferring information on moving of the militants and military equipment of Ukrainian Army in Kharkiv region to a representative of the state-aggressor.

Mariupol looks like this now. Fascists will pay for everything, as it happened in the previous century.

The hero-city of Kherson once again came out for a rally against the occupiers. People came to a peaceful rally in Kherson's central square. They held posters: "We are Ukrainians, not Katsapian slaves!" "Glory to the warriors of Ukraine!" "We will not be defeated! Ukraine will win!"

The Ukrainian Defence Ministry's Main Directorate of Intelligence has published a list of military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces' 78th Independent Brigade of Logistic Support (military unit 11384) in Budennovsk which is involved in committing war crimes against Ukrainian civilians.

The list consists of 1,545 Russian military personnel including their full names, positions, and the dates of birth.

Two occupiers' helicopters were shot down over Skadovskyy district, Kherson region. One of the pilots survived and is being taken to the hospital.

A saboteur has been caught in Kyiv. He failed the "Palianytsya test". The video was published by the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security.

The Cyber police, in cooperation with the volunteers, developed a website for the military occupiers who do not want to fight against Ukraine.

The online resource defenceua.com will help the Russian and Belarusian military in finding contacts of the governmental organisations, as well as the detailed instructions on how to refuse being involved in the bloody war against Ukraine.

At the same time, the military personnel of the states-aggressors will be guaranteed compliance with the Geneva Convention on the Detention of Prisoners of War.

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Bayraktars in action: a targeted destruction of the enemy's multiple rocket launchers. The video was published by Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Zaporizhzhya Region police: A Russian tank ran over a civilian vehicle in Zaporizhzhya. On the side of the road between villages in Orekhovskyy district, Russian war criminals ran over a Tavria with a tank. Two adult men were killed, a young boy burned to death in the blazing car.

The UN World Food Program warns of the possibility of famine in Ukraine. According to the estimates, at least three million people may starve due to the Russia's invasion of Ukraine if the people are not provided with additional food supplies. Martin Frick, the Head of the WFP's Berlin office, warned that it was becoming increasingly difficult to deliver food and drinking water to the war-torn cities (RBB / InfoRadio).

The SBU intercepted conversations between the occupiers. In Kharkiv, they were ordered to shoot at civilians.

According to the Security Service of Ukraine, only 20-25 out of the 2,000 militants of the so-called "LPR" are still alive, who wanted to storm Kharkiv. This makes the occupiers mad, and so the true face of the "peacekeepers" is revealed.

One of the occupiers' speech during an intercepted conversation: “We are few here, we are surrounded. Now we have been given the command to f*cking kill everyone, everyone indiscriminately: civilians, children, not children. To f*cking kill everyone, everyone. Just now, a sniper who was sitting on the tower killed three people behind the fence, who were just shining a flashlight in our direction". 

The Security Service of Ukraine continues to collect facts of the war crimes of the Russian Federation.

The cost of destroyed Russian military equipment is $ 5.1 billion, according to Forbes Ukraine.

About 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the war with Russia, said President Zelensky at a press conference for the foreign media.

Evacuation from Irpin, Kyiv Region

Briefing held by Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba:

President Zelenskyy on Twitter after conversation with Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron:

I spoke with @OlafScholz, @EmmanuelMacron. We discussed countering the aggressor, RF crimes against civilians. I ask my partners to help in releasing the captive mayor of Melitopol. Prospects for peace talks also discussed. We must stop the aggressor together

— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 12, 2022

Evacuation from Sumy. 

The Vatican is ready to do "everything possible" to help achieve a ceasefire and mediate an end to the war in Ukraine. The Holy See is "available for any kind of mediation," Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said in an interview with Vatican News. Parolin reiterates Pope Francis' call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine during a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with the foreign media representatives.

Russian invaders have been trying to unblock the water flow to the occupied Crimea. However, it is a complex system, and “the water has not and will not just flow there”, the Head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the MoD of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov said.

The results of the shelling of Mariupol by the Russian occupational forces.

The enemy strikes at residential quarters and the central part of the city, methodically razing it. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed and damaged in the city. Currently, it is impossible to estimate more or less precisely the death toll.

72nd Mechanized Brigade : "Enemies have once again left a pile of scrap metal somewhere in the Kyiv region."