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.
Lieutenant-General Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been awarded the title of "General".
Command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: within nine days of war Ukrainian air defence destroyed at least 39 Russian aircrafts and 40 helicopters. Prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army's air group concentrated around Ukraine's borders numbered 450 aircraft and 250 helicopters.
The General Staff writes that right now "we cannot yet share all our successes so as not to derail what we have planned". "But believe me, one day we will bring the light on it," it added.
The General Staff informs that military actions cause damage to the enemy not only by armed units of Ukrainian defenders, "but also by ordinary civilians , showing the invaders their civic position and inflicting a psychological defeat on them"
Our territorial defence forces have picked up some Russian equipment:
An adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office, Oleksii Arestovych, writes that in Kherson "a minimum of Russian troops are present", and communication is restored. Also, the planned occupiers' show of "grateful Kherson residents" failed.
The Kyiv regional prosecutor's office writes that the Russian invaders fired at a car: two people are killed in the Kyiv region.
Andrii Iermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said the international community should consider excluding Russia from the UN or excluding it from the Security Council, where it has veto power.
"The fact that the aggressor - Russia - vetoes the actions of the UN Security Council does not release the other parties from the promises (under the Budapest Memorandum - ed.) that they gave to Ukraine," he said.
Gretta Thunberg supported Ukraine:
More than 100 companies have already left the Russian market:
The scale of support for Ukraine by citizens of countries around the world:
The former representative of Donetsk in the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group for Donbas, Serhii Harmash, believes NATO eventually will close the sky over Ukraine, but later - when Ukraine "wears out" the enemy. The indication of this, according to him, will be the counter-offence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - when the Ukrainian army begins to push the Russian occupiers to the borders.
"I think so because the winners are always joined," he added.
American diplomat and former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is sure that it is time to do more for Ukraine because every second is vital for people fighting against Putin - "not only for Ukraine but for the entire free world."
He called for Poland to transfer 28 MiG-29 jet fighters to Ukraine and ensure that Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria do the same (70 combat aircraft in total).
According to CNN, soon Russia will send 1,000 more soldiers to fight against Ukraine because the previous ones "have performed poorly", and 200 of them have already been killed.
Kharkiv. Thousands of people are waiting for the evacuation train.
Scholz had an hour-long telephone conversation with Putin. He expressed deep concern about the war and called for an end to hostilities. Putin said that the third round of talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations is scheduled for this weekend.
As of March 3, more than 1.2 million refugees have already fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24, according to the UN. Of the 1,209,976 refugees, more than half went to Poland. Also, many went to Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova and Romania.
Investigative journalist Christo Grozev says Russia has resources left for the war until Sunday, 6 March. Also, next week, Russia is facing sanctions, the scale of which "we have not seen before", and they will also affect Putin.
Later, Grozev clarified: unfortunately, this does not mean that there will be an end to the war - Russia can and will supply more of its resources to Ukraine, "but this is a logistical nightmare."
"On the sanctions... They are really good," he added.
Just wanted to clarify the tweet below so it doesn't read as an end-of-war prediction. (Sadly it's not). My resources comment was about existing inventory/supplies in Ukraine. More can and will be supplied, but is a logistical nightmare.
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 4, 2022
On the sanctions...they are really good. https://t.co/J1Ja6CPQkv
4 out of 100 troops survived. Russia has begun to "suspect" that the losses of the Russian occupiers in the Kremlin are "slightly" diminished. The question was voiced by a member of the Federation Council, Liudmila Narusova (mother of Ksenia Sobchak). The question remained unanswered.
"Hitler did not do what these bastards do, led by the most important sectarian, are doing now." "It's hell." "Out Kharkiv ... We have it no more. It was bombed and ruined." The women who managed to leave Kharkiv told what was happening in their city.
An adviser to Head of the Presidential Office, Oleksii Arestovych adressed the Ukrainians, who are frustrated. He explains: it is an inevitable phase during the war. By the tenth day, the body and psyche used up their reserves.
“Let's get out of the “everything is lost” mood to the “we merrily kill them.” Because we merrily kill them,” Arestovych said.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree allowing Ukrainian citizens and stateless persons displaced due to the war in Ukraine to live and work in Brazil on a humanitarian visa.
Applicants must obtain a 180-day temporary visa within 90 days of arrival. It gives the right to an extension of up to two years, and then it will be possible to apply for permanent residence.
U.S. and NATO officials monitoring the war in Ukraine noticed a clear shift in Russian strategy earlier this week. The Russian Federation appears ready to "bomb cities until obedience", resulting in significant civilian casualties.
The Prime Minister of Great Britain addressed the citizens of Ukraine in Ukrainian and English.
“I can’t even imagine what you are going through at this moment, the anger and grief that you must feel because everything you know and love is so inexplicably and cruelly destroyed. What is happening in your homeland is terrible. My heart hurts, and so do the hearts of people all over the UK," Johnson said.
Elon Musk expressed support for Ukraine and sympathy for the Russians who oppose the war.
"Hold Strong Ukraine," Musk wrote.
Another Russian invader could not explain why he came to Ukraine.
The news agency of Kabardino-Balkaria (one of the republics in Russia) reported its three residents who served in the National Guard of Russia have died in Ukraine.
Alim Bachiev, Ratmir Kudaiev and Anyuar Etezov returned dead from a "special operation" in the Donbas.
About 74% of Americans said that the US and its NATO allies should establish a no-fly zone in Ukraine.
Also, 80% of American citizens are convinced that the US should stop buying Russian oil.
World-famous mythbuster Jamie Hyneman said what a Russian military ship should do.
Jamie Hyneman has something to say and he asked us to share it with all of you pic.twitter.com/XKrK8J7P83
— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) March 4, 2022
The Russian occupiers are trying to communicate their plans on short-wave radio, and Ukraine jams them with the national anthem - Christo Grozev.
War of words, songs and bombs: Russian offices struggle to communicate attack plans on short-wave radio, while Ukraine jams them with... their national anthem. Shivers. pic.twitter.com/B6dcQTE1Qm
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) March 5, 2022
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has published a list of the army aviation brigade personnel carrying out airstrikes on the Ukrainian civilian population and infrastructure from the Lida airfield of Belarus.
Another group of captured Russian invaders.
They say: "We thought you are from Azov Battalion, you know."
They were answered: "Now we are all Azov."
On 5th of March, Zelenskyy will address the US Senate via Zoom, The Guardian reported.
Some US lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to take a tougher position on Russia.
A number of shops belonging to Auchan Retail have imposed restrictions on the selling of sugar, oil, flour, pasta, grains, and salt. The reason is the increased demand for socially significant goods as the Russian media report.
Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the Head of the presidential office, says that invaders troops are now overwhelmingly in Ukraine. Eight out of ten Russian armies are here.
The Russian army is not strong. It is just long. Eight of Putin's ten armies are here. This is where we bury them. It will take time. But it will not be an accidental success," Arestovych wrote.
He described the situation on the resistance fronts in Ukraine.
In Hostomel, the G.R.U. special forces and the 3rd Special Operations Forces regiment, together with the local TDF, have attacked Russian special forces and paratroopers for two days in a row, Arestovych said.
The Mykolayiv residents fought back the Kulbakino airport and "kicked back" a convoy that tried to bypass the city in the morning. According to his information, Mykolayiv's patrol police are actively participating (and winning) in the combined arms battles.
In Pobeda, Brovary district, Kyiv region, the 15th separate motorized rifle brigade from Samara was hit from the air.
"Incidentally, there, on the Nizhyn direction, three days ago the Russian command began to form a huge operational alliance for an offensive on Brovary - Borispol. Now that alliance is gone. Partly it went under Kharkiv, where the invaders troops suffered huge losses, partly entangled in local gullies, partly destroyed," Arestovych wrote. He specified that this happened because local residents blocked forest roads. After which artillery and aviation worked on the occupants.
In Kherson, according to his information, there are a minimum of Russian troops. Communications have been resumed.
The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is operating normally.
"We are holding the skies (several Russian aircrafts shot down today), our aviation is working. We cover enemy command posts. Even the Russian press today acknowledged the deaths of two senior commanders - including the commander of the Black Sea Fleet's 810th Marine Brigade, which helped Yanukovych escape and seize Crimea," Arestovich wrote.
The situation in Kharkiv, Mariupol and Okhtyrka is dire.
"Russian aircrafts are being shot down over Chernihiv, going on dashing raids and collecting prisoners near Sumy, as a huge meat grinder grinds down the enemy in semi-enclosed Kharkiv," said the adviser to the GP.
He notes that for many Ukrainians the fact that we have not yet lost is "heroic but a miracle".
"No. It was all conditioned on the first day. It was all calculated and thought out by the military leadership and brilliantly implemented by the army. I know the opinion of many in the military of the world. They are shocked - by the level demonstrated by the Ukrainian army and its leadership," Arestovych wrote.
He also said that the first strike of the invaders cruise missiles in many places came on mock-ups.
"Both the firebags and the endless kill boxes into which our military drags the enemy troops are all a sober and cold-blooded calculation, implementing the leadership and personnel of our army with the methodicality of a rotary excavator," he said.
According to Arestovich, the world's best military gave Ukraine 48 hours.
"On the tenth day, the Ukrainian air force, which was given three hours, is blowing the enemy out of the sky. Our success is a pattern. Clearly realized cause-and-effect relations are specially constructed," the expert stressed.
"Even now, when the Kremlin is still puffed up and gleeful, they openly admit that it is impossible to occupy Ukraine and they are not going to. We will chase them back. All our houses and cities will come back to us," he added.
La Repubblica reports, that yachts owned by two Russian oligarchs have been arrested in Italy.
The first one arrested, yacht Lady M, belongs to the Severstal owner, Alexey Mordashov, and another one, yacht Lena, belongs to Hennadiy Tymchenko, who is a close Putin’s friend and Volga Group owner.
Foreign Affairs Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba criticised NATO for refusing to close the skies over Ukraine, but stated, that work on providing Ukraine with combat aircraft by other countries continues.
Samsung suspends Shipments of Phones, Chips to Russia, Bloomberg reported.
News summary by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine as of 24:00 pm, March 4.
Russian invaders continue an offensive operation against Ukraine, supported by their aviation and using high-precision weapons.
The invaders concentrated their main efforts on the encirclement of Kyiv and Kharkiv.
Besides, the enemy is going to reach the administrative borders in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions to create further a land corridor with the occupied Crimea.
In Polisia area, the enemy has started the engineering work of removal of the obstacles from railways in the area of Borodianka to move further in the Kyiv direction for certain.
Invaders' units were stopped in the areas of Shybene and Kaiuzhanka
In the area of Dymer, they continue to reinforce their positions for defense.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy uses actively mobilized resources from temporary occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk as a part of the leading units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fixed at the Kharkiv and Mariupol directions.
They keep on trying to detect weaknesses in defense of Mariupol.
In the Tauris direction, units of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces are trying to continue their offensive towards Zaporizhzhya, while units of the 20th General Army Forces of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces are trying to bypass Kharkiv and move in a southwestern direction.
In the Black Sea waters, after completing a demonstration of readiness to conduct a sea landing in the Odesa-Zatoka area, due to deteriorating weather conditions, the invader withdrew the ship grouping and landing ships to the west of the Crimean peninsula.
The Kyiv territorial defence group continues to repel the enemy offensive, defeat its offensive groups and hold certain lines.
Battalion Tactical Group of the 38th separate airborne assault braigade of the Belarusian armad forces remain located on the border with Ukraine. However, due to the refusal of a significant number of soldiers to carry out criminal orders, there are works to be continued to persuade the soldiers to carry out military tasks on the territory of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy awarded orders and medals to 76 defenders of Ukraine. 37 of them were awarded posthumously.
Aeroflot CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov has left his position in company and probably Russia as well, Russian Kommersant reports.
This is because most Russian airlines were notified by European lessors to terminate reinsurance contracts on the night of 8 March. This means the inability to perform flights.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken believes Ukraine can win a war with Russia.
In Vorzel of Kyiv region Russian Nazis have shot the civilian's car. A woman and a 17-years-old girl have died.
On March 4, six people went from Vorzel by car. On their way, they met the convoy of invaders' military matériel marked with a "V" letter. Russians shot the car with the tank guns.
As a result of the shooting, two people died — the woman and a 17-years-old girl. Four more were injured with shell fragments, among them there were two girls of 17 and 7 years old, accordingly.
The total combat losses of the enemy:
aircrafts - 33;
helicopters - 37;
tanks - 251;
ARMOURED COMBAT VEHICLES - 939;
Anti-aircraft warfare systems - 18;
MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHERS - 50;
vehicles - 404;
fuel tanks - 60;
artillery systems - 105;
UAV operational-tactical level - 3;
light speedboats - 2.
Briefing of Denys Shmyhal
The State Border Service has allowed more than 800 humanitarian aid shipments to cross border.
In Sumy the invaders' tank has begun to be used as a public toilet, Advisor of the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has reported.
Denys Shmyhal called the IAEA and the EU to ensure that peacekeeping teams consisting of representatives of the IAEA, the EU and Ukraine's Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate arrive at all five Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
The World Bank is ready to provide Ukraine with strong support, Zelenskyy wrote on his Twitter after phone conversation with the organisation's president, David Malpass.
