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

Press conference of prisoners of war from the Russian army who were forcibly mobilized by the occupant country at the seized territory of Donbas.

The result of one of the recent combats with the enemy by the division of 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade named after kosh otaman Kost Hordiienko.

The commandant's office was established in Kyiv. It is led by General Mayor Viktor Plakhtii.

The border guards saw hostile infantry that was secretly heading towards the positons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The servicemen of the Border Guard Service hospitably greeted the occupants with the fire from grenade launchers and machine guns. After that the enemy lay down - forever - The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

Taras Ostapchuk, the Ukrainian who sank the yacht of a Russian oligarch and state official in a Spanish port, returned to Ukraine and serves in the Armed Forces, repairing military machines.

There are already 19 victims as a result of missile strike on the building of the Nikolaev regional state administration.

Brief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of March 31st 12:00:

- Main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on keeping positions they have taken previously, preparing to start attacking again in some locations and taking full control of the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

- According to our observations, part of the troops and machines are being transported from Belarus to Russia via railways.

- There is still danger of missile strikes on the objects of Ukrainian defense industry complex and logistics infrastructure. The enemy keeps transporting additional divisions of its armed forces to the territory of Ukraine for taking part in combat. However, some military units of the enemy have already exhausted their abilities to form reserves.

- On Volyn direction there are no significant changes in personnel and location of the enemy. The enemy keeps making demonstrative moves in that direction.

- On Polissya direction main efforts of the enemy are focused on withdrawal of divisions from the territory of Ukraine, restoring their combat ability and, presumably, transporting them to other directions. In particular, the enemy is transporting divisions of the 35th and 36th armies and 76th air assault division from Polissya operation area.

- To provide space for withdrawal occupants are shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are remotely mining territory with the objects that are prohibited by international conventions. Due to critical situation, the withdrawal of the divisions of the 35th army is organized personally by its commander General Lieutenant Aleksandr Sanchik.

- On Sivershchyna direction the enemy uses several divisions of the 2nd and 41st armies and 90th tank division of the Central military district.

- Occupants keep blocking and shelling Chernihiv. They try to hold the taken positions and regroup. To get reconnaissance and adjust artillery fire the enemy uses UAVs.

- On Brovary direction the enemy keeps withdrawing divisions, presumably, to the border regions of Russia.

- On Slobozhanshchyna direction the enemy keeps shelling Kharkiv. On Slovyansk direction using specific divisions the enemy keeps regrouping and replenishing ammunition and petrol.

- On Donetsk direction the enemy focuses main efforts on taking control of Popasna, Rubizhne and Mariupol. There are more active air strikes from aircrafts of operational and tactical aviation on troops and objects near Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Popasna, Kreminna. The enemy tried to outflank our troops but had no success.

- The enemy tries to strengthen its manpower on Donetsk direction. According to our observations, several trains with weapons and machines have arrived to Rovenky railway station. The assault in Mariupol is still on.

- The enemy focused efforts on holding taken positions near Novozlatopil and Lyubymivka.

- On Tavriya direction near New Kakhovka the enemy has set up a logistics base. No active actions.

- On Pivdennyi Buh direction the enemy tries to restore combat ability. Keeps making actions to provide engineering supply. And tries to block divisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with artillery fire.

A sniper of the reconnaissance unit of 79 of the separate airborne assault brigade Mykolaiv of the Airborne troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola B. during a combat mission in Mykolayiv region accurately shot and stopped the first armored vehicle "Lynx" of the 34th separate motorized infantry brigade (mountain) of the Russian Armed Forces and captured a Russian officer.

On March 25-27, Ukrainian soldiers of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade and volunteer squads defeated battalion tactical groups of the Russian Armed Forces in the villages of Mala Rohan and Vilkhivka near Kharkiv. These are the images from the liberated villages.

The Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov announced that after the war the houses in Ukraine will be designed like in Israel - with an obligatory fortified underground parking.

"We have no right to give this war another 36 days! We must all work together to force Russia to seek peace as soon as possible! Hundreds of children have been killed. Thousands of people have been killed. Tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed," President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the Dutch parliament.

"This is not the time to get used to the horrors of war," Vladimir Klitschko stressed.

Great Britain has imposed sanctions against the Russian media "International information agency Russia today."

The Head of Dnipropetrovsk Region State Administration Valentyn Reznichenko informed on the missile strikes at the military base. The administrative building and the petrol storage are destroyed. Two people died, five were injured. Rescue works and fire extinguishing are in progress.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavosoglu claimed that heads of diplomacies of Ukraine and Russia support the idea of another meeting about Ukraine - Anadolu Agency.

Ukrainians from Bandera Hackers group stated that they have hacked five sites of important Belarussian authorities.

It will take about 2 months to partially restore critical infrastructure. Yesterday we started a special operation to remove corpses. Not only our firefighters and rescuers take part in the operation but also policemen and members of the territorial defense. They bring corpses to the bridge and then firefighters send them further - the mayor of Irpin Oleksandr Markushyn.

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"The Russian army is like a sweet pie for us" - the commander of a special unit of the International Defense Legion of Ukraine at the Central Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense stated in an interview to the Associated Press:

"We have men fighting, the average age of which is 30 years. And they have as I saw, 50 kilograms, children who can't hold weapons, not that to fight. I faced a worthy opponent in Irpin."

The Security Service of Ukraine publishes an intercepted conversation between the occupier and his mother, who lives in Ukraine: "He just wants to take his mother out of the occupied city and even agreed a special operation with his commanders for that. He doesn't care at all about other people."

Boder guards detained a saboteur by bike. The citizen of Ukraine was detained in Kyiv region, he was riding a bike camouflaging as a local citizen and getting information.

They have discovered a radio station scanning radio frequencies and flash drives at the possible saboteur’s. In his mobile phone there were found contacts of people from russian federation and possible chatting with curators. There were detected technical devices, weapon, and bullets during search in the man’s house.

How they do cleaning of Irpinj. The exclusive photos from the Center of Strategic Communications and Information Security:

A territorial defense in Kyiv region has destroyed five units of enemy machines:

The enemy has not been attacking by air in Dnipropetrovsk region at night. AFU drive russian occupiers away the region, AFU set control over the villages of Orlove, Zagradivka, Kochubeevka in Kherson region 50 km from Kryvyi Rigr – Dnipropetrovsk SRA.

Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers fired on Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Popasna, Kreminna, Novotoshkivske and Vrubivka in the Luhansk region. As a result of the shelling, there were civilians killed and wounded. High-rise and private buildings, cultural facilities, shops, etc. were damaged - the National Police.

Units of the Airborne troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine together with other units of the Defense Forces of the Zaporizhia Region liberated Zatyshshya, Malinovka, Vesele, Zeleny Gai and Chervone fron Russian occupants - Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Troops of the unrecognized pseudo-republic of South Ossetia laid down their arms and returned home after Russia wanted to send them to fight in Ukraine, confirmed the "ex-president" of the pseudo-formation Eduard Kokoity. This is approximately 300 soldiers.

Cary Fukunaga, the director of the movie about Bond, arrived at Kyiv. It was revealed by Instagram stories of the executive producer of Nate Mook’s initiative.

The director of the last movie about Bond’’007: No Time to Die”, as well as series “Maniac”, “True Detective” arrived at Kyiv together with the charity project. The director has spent around one week in Lviv before.

The world's largest aircraft lessor AerCap is trying to collect a fine from Russia for stolen aircraft, according to the Financial Times.

The company has filed a $ 3.5 billion insurance claim to cover the loss of its aircraft and engines in Russia. This is the first attempt by insurers to start recovering large losses from Russia.

On March 30, near Chernihiv, the occupiers killed by shelling the husband of Olga Stefanyshyna, a Ukrainian Parliament Deputy from the Golos party.

In the Kyiv region, the artillery of the National Guard has destroyed two self-propelled artillery units, missile systems of volley fire and several dozen enemy's armored machines and vehicles.

Zelenskyy to the Australian Parliament: “I am sure that each of you, just like each of us Ukrainians, remembers the tragedy of MH-17, Malaysian Boeing, shot down by Russian invaders in the sky over the Ukrainian Donbas. Then 298 people died. My condolences to all the families who lost their loved ones.

But was it possible to bring to justice those who caused this tragedy? No, it wasn’t. They are hiding in Russia. And obviously, they received security guarantees from the Russian state. Has Russia paid compensation to the relatives of the victims? No, it hasn’t. Until now, they deny their guilt in the tragedy.

Eight years have passed, and justice has not been restored. No one knows how long it will take for at least one tragedy to receive a worthy response from the international community, from all of us.

And how many new tragedies has Russia created or will create?

It is often said that unpunished evil returns. I would add: unpunished evil returns elated, with a sense of omnipotence. If the world punished Russia for what it did in 2014, there would be none of the horrors of this invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

These terrible mistakes must be corrected now. I am grateful to Australia for the bipartisan support for our defense against the invaders. For the help that your state has already provided to us. In particular, for 70,000 tons of coal for the needs of our energy sector.

But this is only the beginning. Together we can, and therefore we must do even more. We need new sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions. Until it gives up nuclear blackmail, the blockade of the sea, it must pay a heavy price. No Russian ship should be allowed into the ports of the free world. Buying Russian oil means paying for the destruction of the foundations of global security. Any business activity with Russia must be completely stopped. Not a single dollar to destroy people!

It is also necessary to stop any attempts by Russia to circumvent sanctions. What kind of sanctions are these if they can be circumvented thanks to simple schemes?

But above all, we need to arm those who are really fighting for freedom. For evil to lose and for Russia to seek peace, Ukraine needs to have everything it needs on the battlefield.

For example, you have excellent Bushmaster armored vehicles that can significantly help Ukraine, as well as other models of equipment and weapons that can strengthen our positions. If you have the opportunity, Ukraine will be grateful to you.”

Zelensky: For decades, there was no such threat of nuclear strikes as there is now. Given that Russia's representatives - officials and state propagandists - are openly discussing the possibility of using nuclear weapons against those who reject to obey Russia's demands.

For decades, there were no full-scale blockades of the the sea and all merchant ships of any country by one state to another.

But that is exactly what Russia has done. Our part of the Black and Azov Seas is now a completely dead sea. And any ship that tries to enter our waters may simply be destroyed by the Russian fleet. More than a hundred merchant ships under various flags have been blocked by Russia in our ports!

For decades, there has been no state in the world that has started a war against a neighboring people,
openly declaring its conquest or destruction. So that not even the name of this nation remains, so that there is no possibility of free life for them.

Russia has already returned to the world the worst pages of the 20th century. The greatest threats of that century. It returned the evil that humanity had long hoped to forget.

But the worst thing is that if Russia is not stopped now, if Russia is not brought to justice, some other countries in the world that dream of a similar war against their neighbors will decide that this is possible for them as well.

The fate of global security is being decided now.

Nobody is capable of controlling the wind and fallouts on the planet, so nobody will be able to save one or another part of the Earth from radiation pollution due to the use of nuclear weapons.

Zelensky to the Australian Parliament:

Impossible, because there is a state that has completely different values. Than us. Than you. Than the whole civilized world. And this state started a full-scale war against us.

It bombs and shells peaceful towns and villages, kills our peaceful people. Kills children. Arranges blockades of cities - holding hundreds of thousands of people hostage without water, food, light and heat. Daily. Separates from their parents and takes out, or rather kidnaps thousands of children, who are forcibly relocated to its territory.

Well, on February 27 - as a result of fighting in the city of Gostomel - our "Dream" plane was burned. Can we say that Russia has destroyed our dream? No. She burned the plane, she burned the iron. It destroyed material, not soul. The shell, not the essence. Not freedom. Not dignity. Not independence.

We know that our Dream cannot be defeated or destroyed. Especially if we can count on the support and help of the free world. For your support, for your help. And it is - as in the story above - needed not in a few months, but now.

Zelenskyy at the parliament of Australia:

In May 2016 thousands of Australians gathered in the airport of Pert town to see a Ukrainian “Mriia” for the first time. “Mriia” is a name of our aircraft AN- 225. “Mriia” means “a dream” in English.

Committing almost 15000 km, it delivered an emergency cargo – an electro generator weighted 130 ton that was very needed for your company. Delivery by sea would have taken months. And a Ukrainian aircraft did it for several days.

We have been always proud of our “Mriia”. Not because it has been the largest at he planet. But because it has been helping to people from all over the world. Delivering food, drinking water, ammunition for peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.

In 2019 when a covid pandemic started, our “Mriia” were delivering most emergency medical cargoes all the time. The ones that were saving lives of people. Adults, children – everybody. In different countries, on different continents. “Mriia” brought life. But now it is impossible.

Zelenskyy addressed to the Parliament of Australia:

“Distance between our counties is thousands of kilometers. We are separated by seas and oceans, territories of dozens of other counties, time zones. Still, this distance does not exist for violence and chaos brought by russia to the East of Europe, to the region of our Black Sea and Azov Sea, to Ukrainian land.

Everything happening in our region because of the russian aggression, and ruining lives of our people, already is a real threat for your country as well, for your people. That is the nature of the evil – it can commit any distance and any barriers instantly. And ruin life”.

Russia lost about $ 623 billion for the month of the war, Vitaly Kevlyuk, an expert at the Center for Defense Strategies and a reserve colonel with combat experience, declared.

Before the war, which was estimated at 72 hours, it had been announced that 7.4 million rubles would be paid to each family of the killed soldier at once, another 5 million of several payments, and 3 million rubles to each wounded, Kevlyuk said.

"Given the number of killed and wounded, which is published by the Ukrainian General Staff, the Kremlin's debt to the occupiers and their families is $ 3.5 billion," he said.

The cost of the military machines of the Russian Federation destroyed by our troops was around $ 6 billion, another $ 20 billion had to be spent on operating costs (repairs, spare parts, fuel etc.).

58 separate motorized infantry brigade named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky has destroyed the enemy tank and damaged an armored repair and evacuation machine.

In the Luhansk region, fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed by artillery several dozen of enemy machines and the kadyrov occupants' staff, the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai on the air of the telethon reported.

Situation in regions as of 8:00:

The night was relatively calm inVolynj, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsjk, Odesa, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhia, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy and Mykolaiv regions.
It was not quietly in Denipropetrovsk region: in the evening missiles stroke on a fuel deport in Dnipro and asphalt factory in Novomoskovsk. There are no victims. Now it is quietly.

Kharkiv region: shelling of inhabited districts continue, in the evening a gas pipeline was damaged, rescuers have liquidated the ignition. During last 24 hours, Russians have been shelling Dergachi district, 1 person was killed, number of victims under specification. In Izuym – there are active fights. Due to constant shelling population cannot be evacuated, Volunteers try to deliver humanitarian help.

In Kherson region it was relatively quietly. In distant districts there were noticed some explosions, at the territory of districts bordered with Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Information on victims and killed under specification. In many villages of the region the situation is next to humanitarian catastrophe.

Donetsk region: phosphorus projectiles in Marjinka. Military light reactive systems – to Avdiivka, Georgiivka, Novokalynivka, and Ocheretyne. There are destructions and ignitions in these villages. Information under specification. Mariupol – no changes. The ruined city with people remaining there.

Luhansk region: shelling all the territory using heavy weapon. Lysychansk has been under the focus of Russians for two days already. Yesterday evening dozens of injured, at least 7 killed: those who were killed outside. The fuel deport is under the fire.

Chernihiv region: defensive fights in the city, shelling of the outskirts of the city in the afternoon. In the central part of the city there are fights in the directions of enemy’s columns. Citizens of the region stay in very difficult conditions of living.

Kyiv region: Bucha district remains the hottest spot in the region. Shelling of Irpinj, Makariv, and also, villages along Zhytomur Highway. There are fights in Gostomel, Bucha communities. Shpytjky village has been shelled at night.

The enemy is moving in the occupied towns and villages. Slavutych is isolated. Russians remain in three communities of Brovary district and in the north of Vyshgorod district.

Rascists have used phosphorus projectiles - last night in Marjinka, Krasnogirivka, and Novomyhailivka of Donetsk region, the Head of regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko informed.

11 injured civilians from Marjinka community have been delivered to the hospital, 4 of them are children.

From the morning Ocheretynsjka community has been shelled. As a result there are two injured people.

'He is a skillful moderator. He oversees the process so that there is no misunderstanding when one side says something and the other side does not get it. Abramovich turned out very efficient on this mission,' - says Mikhail Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the President's Office.

State Emergency Service of Ukraine : 1323 towns and villages stay without electricity in Ukraine.

32 of them - partially. 6 generators of SESU are used to provide emergency electricity for the objects of social sphere, 3 of them for hospitals electricity provision.

Up-to-date information on railway connections and stations as of March 31.

Confirmed: the Russian planes with nuclear weapons violated Swedish airspace on March 2. Swedish channel TV4 reported that a group of military planes took off from the Russian air base in Kaliningrad on March 2. They were four aircraft - two Su-24 attack aircraft accompanied by two Su-27 fighters. TV4 Nyheter sources mow confirn that the two attack aircraft were equipped with nuclear weapons.

Starting from April 1, Railway of Ukraine temporary changes routes of some trains of Kharkiv direction bypass Kyiv to optimize.

In particular, the following trains will be scheduled on Burty route:

129/130 Kremenchug-Ivano-Frankivsk (with stops in Poltava , Station by Shevchenko)
15/16 Kharkiv - Ivano-Frankivsk (with stops in Poltava, Kremenchug, Station by Shevchenko)
149/150 Poltava - Chernihiv (with stops in Poltava, Station by Shevchenko)
17/18 Kharkiv - Lviv (with stops in Poltava, Kremenchug, Station by Shevchenko).


Those routes do not follow through Kyiv any more, still the captal will have more than 20 routes in western direction.

Belarussians damage railway routes on purpose to block russian vehicle transportation to Ukraine, it was informed by the Board member of Railway of Ukraine Orest Logunov:

"It is the second train with russian tanks that got off the rails for the last 3 days."

Prosecutor-General's Office: 148 children killed in Ukraine as a result of Russian armed aggression.

In total, more than 380 Ukrainian children suffered because of the war.

According to the data received, the most affected children were in Kyiv region - 69, Donetsk region - 57, Kharkiv region - 53, Chernihiv region - 41, Mykolayiv region - 30, Luhansk region - 30, Zaporizhzhya region - 22, Kherson region - 27, the capital - 16, Sumy region - 16, Zhytomyr region - 15.

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 31.03 were approximately:

personnel - about 17500,
tanks ‒ 614,
APV ‒ 1735,
artillery systems – 311,
MLRS - 96,
Anti-aircraft warfare systems - 54,
aircraft – 135,
helicopters – 131,
vehicles - 1201,
boats / cutters - 7,
fuel tanks - 75,
UAV operational-tactical level - 83.
special equipment - 22.
mobile SRBM system - 4.