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.
The General Staff's of the Armed Forces of Ukraine report from the front as of 6 p.m. . The Russians continue to fire the civilian objects. Twenty residential buildings were damaged in Bila Tserkva as well as the railways and the evacuation train in Irpin. Ukrainian Air Forces attacked the Russian Brigade near Brovary. Notable, the colonel of the Russian Army Konstantine Zizevsky was killed. He was the commander of the 247th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have shot down two jets, five helicopters and one unmanned aerial vehicle. Three pilots are taken captive.
Payoneer payment system joins Wise and PayPal and also suspends operations in Russia due to aggression against Ukraine - AIN.ua.
Amid the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the famous writer Stephen King discontinues his book publishing contract in Russia. In addition, he appealed to boycott Coca-Cola’s goods. The company openly refused to leave the Russian market.
Harry Kasparov, a politician and a chess champion published a statement from the Anti-War Committee of Russia. Abstract: Russian invasion is turning into a punitive operation. Russia has failed its Blitzkrieg and is now bombing civilians. Now, when Russian bombs are falling, weapon supplies isn't enough for Ukraine. Such measures could have worked eight years ago. "Russians need time to see the truth and start acting." The members of the Committee criticized the West for not willing to introduce a no-flight zone and requested western authorities to use all means to stop the war.
Liubov Tsybulska, Advisor to Chief of General Staff, posted on her Twitter:
In Kyiv a woman knocked down a Russian drone from a balcony with a jar of cucumbers. How did they expect to occupy this country?
— Liubov Tsybulska (@TsybulskaLiubov) March 5, 2022
Putin: Any country taking part in introducing a no-flight zone over Ukraine will be considered a party to the conflict, and consequences will follow.
The total cost of military equipment Russia lost during the war in Ukraine is approximately $3 billion or 331.2 billion rubles, according to Forbes.
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports two enemy airmen being captured in the Mykolaiv region. They ejected from the shot jet. A pilot and a navigator were taken captive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in cooperation with the National Guard of Ukraine.
The pilot: “I was born on 22nd of February 1990, I am the flight commander, serving at the Aviation Unit 59882, located in the town of Saky. The task was – to conduct intelligence”.
The navigator: “The date of birth – on the 2nd of March, 1988. I am a navigating officer, serving at the Aviation Unit 59882, located in the town of Saky. I am from Smolensk, the address - 97 Kechkemetskaya street, Apt. 56, Simferopol, Crimea. The task was – to conduct intelligence of the sea, no bombing. Since the 24th of February, we conducted 3-4 flights”.
Maksym Marchenko/Odesa Regional State Administration (RMA): Our air defence forces shot down two enemy fighters! One of the fighters crashed into the sea near Odesa, the other crashed in the north of the region. The pilots have now been captured and are being taken in for interrogation.
The Ukrainian Naval Forces report one more Russian aircraft being shot down in the town of Ochakiv. A member of the Navy shot it down during another air attack.The pilots were taken captive
“One more aircraft was shot down in the town of Ochakiv.It continues for many days that Russian Federation makes attempts to destroy Ochakiv. Among other means, it resorts to air attacks and terrorises in such a way the civilians.
However, Ukraine defences itself fearlessly.Today, on the 5th of March, one of the members of the Navy shot down the military plane during another air attack. The model is the Sukhoi Su-25.
The pilots were taken captive.It should be noted, that the shot jet has taken off from the Saky (Novofedorivka) airbase, which was occupied in 2014.
We are proud of our soldiers!”
Yuri Butusov on Facebook:
3 BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers and two 152 mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery guns seized near Kharkiv by one of the AFU brigades. All this equipment belonged to the 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the RF Armed Forces, and now it is already in possession of our army. Our soldiers to the west of Kharkiv seized over 30 units of military equipment in total.
Mayor of Kherson to locals: "Kherson - you're cool! I mean this situation with humanitarian aid on the square and your reaction to it. I am proud of you. Kherson is a hero city! Kherson is Ukraine!"
The SSU video shows the downed Russian pilot, one of Putin's ace pilots who was granted an audience with Bashar al-Assad for his atrocities in Syria.
You can see their shared photo in the snapshot above.For him, bombing civilian cities is not a new thing.
As the perpetrator himself explains, he doesn't think about concepts such as residences and neighbourhoods: There are just targets with coordinates...
Now he has a lot of long conversations with SSU officers ahead of him.He will answer for all his atrocities, just like thousands of other Russian invaders who came to Ukrainian soil with the war.
Soldiers of the Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi 58th separate motorized infantry brigade found documents of the 239th Russian tank regiment in the command armored personnel carrier. So much interesting stuff.
Vitaliy Kim, Mykolaiv Regional Administration: One more Russian aircraft shot down.
Special forces of the Italian financial police arrested both villas of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.
A rally in support of Ukraine in Riga with the participation of Latvian President Egils Levits. "Together with Ukraine! Together against Putin!"
The Kremlin's troops are demoralized, they refuse to fight, there are many dead, said Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
Ukrainian Navy: In the Mykolaiv region, not three but four enemy helicopters are down, two of them have been hit by the same marine.
Memes about cool guys are changing.
As of this morning, Russian troops aren't taking any active efforts, only tactical maneuvers. Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made a powerful strike in the Kherson region, according to Ukraine's Oleksii Arestovysh, the counsel of the Head of President Administration.
"Good morning, dear friends. We have a morning briefing.
It will be short today, March 5th, since the enemy is not engaged in active combat in the morning. They are making isolated tactical steps to improve their position and ensure supplies. The Armed Forces of Ukraine take control over this situation, improve their position and carry out isolated counter-strikes to defeat the enemy by air.
For instance, in the morning near Kherson our Ukrainian Armed Forces dealt a very powerful blow to the enemy and their losses are now being ascertained. The estimated losses of the enemy as of today are as follows:
- Personnel - more than 10,000 men.
- Tanks - 269 units
- Armoured Fighting Vehicles, 945
- Artillery systems, 105 pieces
- Multiple rocket launchers - 50 units
- Air defence systems - 19 units
- Aircraft - 39 (to be specified)
- Helicopters - 40 (to be specified)
- Vehicles - 409 units
- Light fast boats - 2 units
- Tanks with fuel and lubricants - more than 60 units
- Operational-level unmanned aerial vehicles - 3 units
I wish you a good day. I think there will be news during the day, of which we will inform you shortly".
The head of the Mykolaiv Region Administration. Three more Russian helicopters are down.
A captured Russian. “We are not stationed in Ukraine.” He is scared. And so it must be.
Mykolaiv region. A Russian captured moron is telling our military that he is not in Ukraine. Bloody bastards.
Mariupol mayor on Russia's disruption of agreements to evacuate civilians.
Iryna Vereshchuk: Russia has violated the agreements on humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Volnovakha.
"Dumska“ says that there is a rush demand for souvenirs (including charity items) with Ukrainian symbols on e-bay. We do not know for sure what the demand is, but there is definitely a supply.
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For example, Warhammer 40k Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Astra Militarum Commander.
LIGA.net is forced to stop traffic for IP-addresses in Russia and Belarus due to continuous DDos attacks. Readers from temporarily occupied territories can access us via VPN as before.
Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov recorded a video message to the US and NATO countries in English calling for the skies over Ukraine to be closed: "Arguments that NATO is trying to avoid a nuclear war by refusing to introduce A2/AD are no longer convincing - Russia has already started one.
President Erdoğan intends to talk to Putin tomorrow. “The war needs to be stopped. Parties need to return to negotiations. Turkey represented by the President Erdoğan does all it can to assist in this issue, -” says Ibrahim Kalin, presidential spokesperson and special adviser to the President (Anadolu).
Donetsk Region Administration:
Attention! The evacuation of civilians in Mariupol will be postponed!
Since the Russian side doesn't stick to ceasefire agreements and keeps bombing Mariupol and neighboring areas, it will be safer to postpone the evacuation‼️
Near Kharkiv, the Ukrainian army launched a counterattack. Here's what Russian invaders are leaving behind as they flee.
Pilot of the Russian military aircraft Su-25 shot above Chernihiv was captured.
Russian pilots shot down near Chernihiv. Someone has concerted it:
❗️ A video of a hit on an occupant plane near Chernihiv about which was reported about an hour ago has emerged on the Internet. It’s beautiful !
Opinion: Volodymyr Zelenskyy: "NATO has turned out to be weak and insecure. We will fight until our eyes go black" russian version.
We think that the NATO states themselves have created a narrative according which a "closed sky" may provoke Russia's aggression against NATO. It's nothing but self-hypnosis of those who are weak. Of those who are insecure on the inside – even though they have weapons that are way more powerful than ours. You should have thought about people, about compassion. And what did you think about during the summit?
Everything the alliance managed to give us is 50 tonnes of fuel. Maybe we could use it to burn the Budapest Memorandum. But it's burned already. The Russian army did it. Is this NATO we wanted? Is this the Alliance you were building? Today, by refusing to establish a no-flight zone, the management of the Alliance has given permission to furtherly bomb Ukrainian cities and villages. You could have closed our sky. But...
An IL-96-300 from the Russian presidential aircraft fleet is headed from Moscow to Washington. Who's onboard? Why? Here's the flight info:
(occupied) Kherson today. Those Russian ghouls will never defeat Ukraine and its people. (People are out rallying for Ukraine, even stole a Russian armored vehicle and drive around with Ukrainian flag).
Defence Minister of Ukraine appealed to the international community in English:
"First of all, I would like to thank our partners for their support. The whole of Europe understands that they are sending aid to Ukraine because hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians today, at the cost of their lives, the lives of their relatives and even children, are deterring the aggressor from invading other countries.
At the same time, NATO refuses to close the sky over Ukraine. The arguments about murders, targeted bombing and rocket attacks on residential buildings, hospitals, maternity hospitals and kindergartens, and the destruction of one of the European nations are not sufficient in 21st century. Fine.
Then all of those, who are now blocking the closure of the sky over Ukraine, should recall April 1986. The Saturday night, April 26. Do you recall? That was the night when the disaster happened. The disaster that is considered to be the most massive in the history of nuclear energy, both in terms of the number of people killed and affected by its consequences, and in terms of economic damage. The radioactive cloud from the Chernobyl accident passed over the European part of then existing USSR, the largest part of Europe and the eastern part of the USA.
Today we are talking about Zaporizhzhia NPP. The LARGEST one in Europe. The consequences of the Chernobyl accident with only one power unit were catastrophic for the world. And now imagine what will happen if another Russian missile hits the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which has SIX power units.
Currently, the site of Zaporizhzhya NPP, as well as the Chernobyl NPP are under the control of the Russian armed forces. Targeting Energodar with its Zaporizhzhya NPP was not an accident. These are purposeful actions. Russia has committed an act of nuclear terrorism. We were miraculously lucky, as the fire was liquidated. But tomorrow may not be so lucky.
If the ZNPP explosion occurs, the consequences will be devastating not only for Ukraine, but for the whole world, as a nuclear disaster of this scale will surpass all previous accidents at nuclear power plants, including Chernobyl and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
So now there is a question: is the world ready for a catastrophe SIX times as massive as Chernobyl? Are all those who hesitate now, whether it is necessary to close the sky over Ukraine, ready to sacrifice the lives and health not only of Ukrainians, but also of their children? This is not about a war somewhere far away in Ukraine. It's about your safety. And about the nuclear danger to the whole world. So, consider the situation. Ask yourself a question: are you ready to just hope that the rocket will not hit the nuclear power plants, as they "do not accidentally hit" to homes and kindergartens. Preventive sanctions were not imposed. Everyone is now watching from a distance the consequences of these hesitations on TV.
You cannot observe a nuclear catastrophe from afar – it is not going to work out that way. Your arguments that the current refusal to implement A2/AD is related to the fact that NATO is trying to avoid the nuclear war is not convincing, since Russia has already started it. Historical lessons are severe and they must be taken into account.
Listen to your people. Yesterday's Reuters / Ipsos poll made it clear that the outrage over Russia's invasion of Ukraine is growing. About 74 percent of Americans, including the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats, said the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies should introduce a no-fly zone in Ukraine, the poll said.
If Eisenhower had supported Europe before the World War II, the United States would have never had Pearl Harbor. If the countries of the world imposed the same sanctions against Russia as today, a full-scale war would not have begun. Say the least of it, the only way for all of us to survive, and I mean the whole world, is the A2/AD zone".
At the very moment in the vicinity of Chernihiv another enemy attack aircraft made its last fly. All details of our air defences are promised to be provided by Operational Command North later.
Deputy Beleniuk and his favorite joke.
So I am driving around the city and approaching a block post. Two guys are there. We waive at them. One starts talking to us, I start opening the window and ask him what it is that he wants. He tells me – there is a joke, you know: Clearly, you are not a Russki.
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As Ukrainian poet Les Podervianskyi said, "they fly so beautifully!"
Zelenskyi on the humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Volnovakha: "Everyone who needs help must be able to leave, whoever wants it. But everyone who can defend their city must continue to fight. Must. Because if everyone leaves, then whose city will it be?" "
Zelenskyi: "We have seen that common American people support the closure of the sky now to save the lives of Ukrainians. 74% of Americans - for the no-fly zone. 74! The vast majority. What else is needed to make this decision?"
President Zelenskyi said he spoke to Turkish President Erdogan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE leaders, European Council President Charles Michel, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
After communication with world leaders and heads of world organisations and institutions, Zelenskyi says: there is already a decision on tens of billions of dollars to rebuild Ukraine after the war
There is no border with Poland, the Ukrainian president said figuratively. "Because we are on the good side together".
Zelenskyi spoke late at night with French leader Macron and Polish President Duda. He says there is constant interaction and discussions - every day.
Zelenskyi: Weekends don't exist anymore. Saturday or any other day - it does not matter. It's all just one long day.
Irpin Mayor Markushyn writes that a railway evacuation is unavailable due to a shell hitting the train.
"We urgently ask all people waiting to be evacuated from the Irpin railway station to move to the Novoirpinska route to the bridge to Romanivka - there will be a bus evacuation to Kyiv. We evacuate children, women and the elderly to the Kyiv railway station."
A criminal proceeding was initiated for organising the work of the Russian occupation authorities in Bilovodsk, Luhansk region. We know the name of the traitor. There will be a link here soon.
23-year-old Maxim and his NLAW are waiting for Russian tanks in the direction of Svitlodar if they can pass the firing range of Ukrainian artillery: "Guys are working so flawlessly that the enemy simply can't come close to us."
