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.
Ukrainian investigative journalists discovered one of the villas of Ramzan Kadyrov in the UAE. It is located on the territory of a five-star hotel on the famous man-made palm tree of Dubai Jumeirah.
According to journalists, Kadyrov flies there in his luxurious private Airbus A319 jet, worth about $80 million. In 2021-2022, Kadyrov visited the United Arab Emirates 14 times.
According to journalists, the villa of the leader of Russia's subsidized region of the Chechen Republic is looked after by his official adviser and representative in Arab and Muslim countries, Turko Daudov.

The European Commission is prepared to set up special trading routes between Poland and Ukraine to make sure food products and live animals can be moved as easily as possible in both directions, the European Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said, according to Politico.
The occupiers fired at the Kharkiv region from BM-21 "Grad" 180 times, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synehub wrote.
In addition, over the past 24 hours, Russian invaders delivered 39 artillery and mortar strikes to the areas of Saltivka, Oleksiivka, Kholodna Hora, KhTZ, Chuguivka and Dergachi.
A fire is still being extinguished in the Rivne region two days after a rocket attack on an oil depot on Monday night. The main fire is localized, firefighters are extinguishing one of the fire cells, stated the head of the Rivne Regional State Administration Vitaliy Koval.
The head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, called the preliminary consent of the Great Britain to become the guarantor of Ukraine's security the right signal. He noted this in the Telegram.
Search and rescue operations continue after a missile attack on the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration. From under the rubble managed to get the bodies of 12 dead and 33 injured. Rescuers work in shifts, 8 pieces of equipment and 38 employees of the State Emergency Service are working.
German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport has decided that it will continue exporting its products to Russia despite its aggression against Ukraine. This was reported by business daily Handelsblatt.
Russia should immediately withdraw its troops from the Chernobyl zone and the UN Security Council should take immediate measures to demilitarise the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said.
Such a decision was prompted by yesterday's spontaneous detonation of ammunition at a Russian Armed Forces depot in Russia's Belgorod.
"This is an example of typical Russian disregard for safety and mass use of dangerous World War II munitions," Vereshchuk explained.
The head of the Ministry of Reintegration explained that the demilitarisation of the exclusion zone is an important step in the context of nuclear safety not only for Ukraine, but also for hundreds of millions of Europeans. Because the actions of the Russian army are "irresponsible and unprofessional".
Vereshchuk also noted the need for a UN special mission to eliminate the risk of a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster caused by the Russian occupation forces.
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 30.03 were approximately:
- personnel - about 17300,
- tanks - 605,
- APV - 1723,
- artillery systems – 305,
- MLRS - 96,
- Anti-aircraft warfare systems - 54,
- aircraft – 131,
- helicopters – 131,
- vehicles - 1184,
- boats / cutters - 7,
- fuel tanks - 75,
- UAV operational-tactical level - 81,
- special equipment - 21,
- mobile SRBM system - 4.
Data are being updated. The calculation is complicated by the high intensity of hostilities.
Renault is considering transferring its 68% stake in AvtoVAZ to a Russian investor as a way to exit the country. According to Bloomberg's sources, the French carmaker believes this is the best option.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, 145 children were killed and 222 wounded during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Bombing and shelling have damaged 790 educational establishments. 75 of them were completely destroyed.
During the day, the Office recorded new crimes by the Russian Federation:
- 175 crimes of aggression and war crimes;
- 69 crimes against national security;
- another trunk case on Russian aggression was opened.

Iryna Vereshchuk said at a regular briefing that during the negotiations in Turkey, the Russian delegation was given proposals on the organization of humanitarian corridors to the most affected 97 settlements in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk, Luhansk and Mykolayiv regions.
Today, Ukraine will continue to work on obtaining approval of these humanitarian corridors from the Russian Federation.
The South Bridge has been opened for buses in Kyiv. This is reported by Kyiv City State Administration. Routes here.
To date, three humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
- for the evacuation of Mariupol residents and delivery of humanitarian aid to the city of Berdyansk;
- for the delivery of humanitarian aid and evacuation of people from the city of Melitopol;
- as well as for the passage of a convoy of people in their own vehicles from the city of Energodar to Zaporizhzhia.
Artillery and air strikes continue throughout Luhansk Region. The Ukrainian armed forces have repelled four attacks. There is significant destruction and fires in the towns. Grass and reeds are burning around Kremenna.
In the Donetsk region, there was heavy shelling of Avdiivka, Marinka and Krasnohorivka at night. In the morning there were air strikes on Novokhailivka village. Novomikhailovka, also on Marinka. Information on the casualties is being established.
Mariupol is without change: blockade, street hostilities. Over 100,000 people remain in the city.
Nights in eight Ukrainian regions remain turbulent, however:
In Chernihiv, heavy shelling of the city was recorded overnight. Casualty and damage figures are being clarified.
In Kyiv region, fighting and shelling continue in the Buchan district, Gostomel, Dmytrivka, Buchanska and Makarivska communities. Shelling of Irpin. In settlements along the Zhytomyr highway, shelling and fighting. Information on damage and casualties is currently being clarified.
In Kharkiv, there was shelling of districts of the city with long-range weapons during the night. In the region: there are battles in Izyum direction, AFU shot down 1 fighter jet and a UAV.
In Khmelnytskyi region, the State Emergency Service managed to contain fires that occupied overnight as a result of three missile attacks on industrial facilities in the region. Information on casualties is being verified.
On the night of 29-30 March, numerous air raids were documented across Ukraine. However, the night was relatively quiet in most regions.
The Russian army used heavy weapons to hit residential areas of Lysychansk, information on casualties is being clarified. The head of the Luhansk regional state administration, Serhiy Gayday, said this on Facebook.
Ukraine will pay a minute's silence every morning at 9:00 a.m. in memory of the victims.
Mines scattered by Russians in the Black Sea were seized in 2014 in Sevastopol. This is evidenced by the corresponding markings on the ammunition. One was recently destroyed by the Turkish military in the Bosphorus, while another was destroyed by Romania off its shores.
"These mines are exactly 'floating' because this crap was scattered by the Russians," said Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration.
The Russians once again tried to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces by scattering uncontrolled drifting mines in the Black Sea.
Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock acknowledged that German politicians knew about the dangers of increased energy dependence on Russia after its 2014 Crimea annexation, but ignored this, and “were now paying the price.” She said this during a speech at the Berlin Conference on March 29, Politico reports.
The United States want to allow the California National Guard to help Ukraine. California Congressman Adam Schiff tweeted about it.
“California's National Guard stands ready, willing, and able to support humanitarian work in Ukraine. Yet bureaucratic hurdles prevent them from doing so. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken must approve the required authorities, so the Guard can do more to ease Ukraine's suffering,” the statement reads.
California's National Guard stands ready, willing, and able to support humanitarian work in Ukraine.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 29, 2022
Yet bureaucratic hurdles prevent them from doing so.@SecDef and @SecBlinken must approve the required authorities so the Guard can do more to ease Ukraine's suffering. pic.twitter.com/wPznrE4hFw
The Parliament of Canada voted for visa-free travel for Ukraine, Ukrinform reports. The decision will be made by the Canadian government, but Parliament can ask the executive power to consider a particular issue.
Georgian singer Lado Kuchukhidze sang Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow ("Ой у лузі червона калина") in Georgian. The riflemen song became a kind of anthem of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression after Andriy Khlivnyuk sang it a cappella on Sofiyivska Square.
The General Staff thanked the Georgians for their support.
According to Oleksiy Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President, in the negotiations with the Russian Federation in Istanbul, Ukraine improved its pre-war position, somewhere the negotiating and military lines will converge, and this “will definitely be a victory for Ukraine.”
But the negotiations will not slow down the war and will not cancel it, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President said. According to him, this is a separate line that is preparing a peace agreement, because any war ends with it. “And this line goes up for us,” Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President believes.
Advisor to the chief of the president’s office Oleksiy Arestovych believes that the failures of the Russian army near Kyiv and the transition to defense near Kherson do not mean a quick victory. He wrote on Facebook that the enemy would strike the cities and capital until the end of the war, and "there is a grand fight" in the Donbas.
In the Brovarsky district, a warehouse was on fire due to an enemy shell. The warehouse caught fire at 4:05 p.m. on an area of 20 thousand square meters. At 6:00 p.m. the fire was localized by the State Emergency Service. 25 people and 7 pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing.
In his speech to the Government, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that Ukraine had enough food supplies for several years.
"We have launched a program of free distribution of key social products in frontline cities. The state buys more than 10 categories of such products and then distributes them to people. This is also the support of Ukrainian manufacturers - support for our food industry," he said.
In the context of Ukraine's long-term food security, Denis Shmygal said that sowing has already begun in 11 regions and the state has given farmers funds to purchase everything they need: fuel, fertilizers, seeds. And also, loans at 0%. There are state guarantees on loans to the banks.
The Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has compiled a selection of fakes, manipulations, and disinformation produced by Russians:
- Tactics of shelling captured by invaders points is observed to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the eyes of the local population. Before shelling residential neighborhoods, the invaders announce that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have plans to attack.
- The Putin regime's defense ministry has said that Ukraine's political and military leadership allegedly "orders the national battalions to shoot staged videos of alleged killings of civilians and looting by the Russian military."
- Propagandists promote the thesis "No Russophobia, Russians should not be responsible for Putin, Russians should not suffer from sanctions." This was announced on the air of the Italian RAI TV channel by Marina Ovsyannikova, who previously appeared on Russian television with an anti-war poster.

The enemy continues to commit illegal acts against civilians in the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts. In Velyka Bilozerka, the invaders placed their equipment near residential buildings, and on the approaches to Melitopol, they equipped checkpoints and increased the access regime.
It is also reported by the General Staff that over the past 24 hours in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions, Ukrainian forces repulsed four attacks: seven tanks, seven armored personnel vehicles, two vehicles, and an anti-tank gun were destroyed. The enemy has a loss of manpower.
According to the General Staff, the Russian army has problems with staffing. In particular, conscripts from the 26th tank regiment of the 47th armored division, who signed contracts, after the war with Ukraine began to submit reports on the termination of the contract with a request to send them to serve at the point of permanent deployment.
According to the General Staff, units of the 4th (Tskhinvali District, South Ossetia) and 7th (Abkhazia) military bases, which are part of the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation, were transferred to Ukraine.
Three battalion tactical groups from the 4th base (up to 1,200 Russian and Ossetian soldiers) and two BTGs (up to 800) from the 7th base were formed and sent to Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has published a new operational report on the Russian invasion for March 29 as of 6 am 30.03.2022.
The Russians sent 2,000 soldiers from the occupied territories of Georgia to Ukraine. In the Luhansk region, they plan to hold a new wave of mobilization - the General Staff.
The United Kingdom is ready to be one of the guarantors of security. This was stated at a briefing by the Permanent Representative of the UK to the United Nations Barbara Woodward.
She also added that Britain has already sent significant military aid to Ukraine and provided 400 million pounds of humanitarian aid.
At the beginning of the 35th day of the war, there is almost no queues on the border with neighboring countries, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reports.
In Poland, 5 buses each at the Krakivets and Shehyni checkpoints. There are 10 people on the border with Slovakia at the Uzhhorod checkpoint.
There are no queues at other checkpoints with Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.
President Biden's "message to the Russian people: This war is not worthy of you. Putin can and must end this war. The American people stand with you and the brave citizens of Ukraine who want peace."
.@POTUS’s message to the Russian people: This war is not worthy of you. Putin can and must end this war. The American people stand with you and the brave citizens of Ukraine who want peace. pic.twitter.com/PsurzRGJtt
— Department of State (@StateDept) March 30, 2022
US State Department issues travel warning saying Moscow "may single out and detain US citizens in Russia".
Citing the potential for harassment of US citizens by Russian authorities, the warning repeats calls for Americans not to travel to Russia or to leave "immediately".
#UPDATE US State Department issues travel warning saying Moscow "may single out and detain US citizens in Russia".
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 30, 2022
Citing the potential for harassment of US citizens by Russian authorities, the warning repeats calls for Americans not to travel to Russia or to leave "immediately" pic.twitter.com/uMrcgTcypd
In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, deputies registered a bill banning the Moscow Patriarchate on the territory of Ukraine.
The main updates of the night:
- Entire neighborhoods have been destroyed in the center of Mariupol, and many houses have no roofs. Maxar Technologies has shown new satellite images of the city besieged by the Russian occupation army, CNN reports.
- Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, arrived in Ukraine on March 29 to discuss with the Ukrainian government the safety of nuclear facilities amid a full-scale Russian invasion. He announced this on Twitter.
- A charity concert with the participation of world pop stars took place in Great Britain on March 29, during which $ 16 million was raised to help Ukraine, the BBC reports. About 8,000 people bought tickets for the concert, and millions of people watched the broadcast on ITV.
- US President Joe Biden will speak with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on the condition that Russia ensures real de-escalation in Ukraine and acts according to the rules of diplomacy. This was stated by the head of the White House press office Kate Bedingfield, reports The Guardian.
- Irpen mayor Oleksandr Markushin call on residents not to return to their homes, even though the Ukrainian army had liberated the city from the Russian invaders. He said this in a video message on Facebook.
- Russian invaders continue to block the Izium of Kharkiv oblast. Since March 14, it has not been possible to deliver humanitarian aid to the town - food, water, medicine. This was reported to CNN by Izium City Council deputy Maksym Strelnyk.
- On March 29, a shell of the Russian invaders hit a warehouse in the Brovary district of Kyiv oblast, State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports. The fire was contained in an area of 20,000 square meters. 25 emergency service officers and seven units of equipment were engaged to fight the fire. No casualties were reported.
- The Ukrainian serviceman spoke about the "second army of the world", or rather the occupying forces of Russia, which "to raze to the ground everything they failed to capture" The video was published on Facebook of the Operational Command North.
- Russian hackers are scanning the systems of energy companies and other critical US infrastructure - this is a threat to national security. This was stated by Assistant Director of the FBI Cyber Division Brian Worndran, writes Reuters. It was specified that 16 different types of infrastructure may be at risk of cyberattacks - telecommunications, health care, food, and energy industries.
- Operational Command North has posted on Facebook another piece of evidence that the Russian occupation army is deliberately killing Ukrainian children and civilians.
- Russia's military aggression has led to acute food shortages in Ukraine, provoking a global food crisis around the world. So far, almost 100 food vessels have been blocked in the Black Sea. This was stated by United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at a meeting of the UN Security Council on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, CNN reports.
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine published a video of how residents of Irpen, Kyiv oblast, welcomed Ukrainian military equipment and soldiers in the liberated city yesterday.
- Citizens of the Ovruch district of the Zhytomyr oblast were asked not to leave shelters throughout the night due to the threat of airstrikes by the Russian occupation forces. This was reported on Facebook by the Ovruch City Council.
- On March 29, Russia continued to spread fakes and insinuations about the situation in Ukraine. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
- There may be a "gap" in the United States intelligence gathering due to which the United States overestimated Russia's capabilities and underestimated the Ukrainian military's defense capabilities before Russia's attack on Ukraine. This was stated by NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Todd Walters, CNN reports.
- Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than ten million Ukrainians, including half of the child population, have fled their homes. This was stated by Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the United Nations Joyce Msuya, writes CNN.
- Russia attacked Ukraine on the basis of "extremely imperialist views", this war is aimed at seizing territory. This statement was made by German chancellor Olaf Scholz on March 29 during a speech in Dusseldorf, writes DW.
Sleeping already? Good night then. Everything will be 4.5.0.
Another impressive video from Irpin shows the consequences of shelling by Russian occupants in Stoyanka district.
The videographers used a drone to show that the beautiful, neat and well-groomed houses of Irpin residents have turned into ruins.
Videographers arrived in Irpin, Kyiv region, a few hours after the liberation of the city from Russian occupants. They took pictures all over the city, in particular, Pushkinska Street, Kyivska Street and the central park area.
Unfortunately, there are more corpses on the streets than those who can collect them, the authors of the video shared their thoughts.
Map of the Russian occupation troops invasion of the territory of Ukraine on March 28, 2022. Published by CNN.
The premises of the Mariupol field office of the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine were shelled by Russian occupation forces, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell stated.
"The office and equipment were severely damaged. No mission members or contractors were injured," the statement said.
The mission declared its condemn of "any attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure." Russia is demanded to stop the offensive and withdraw its military machines from Ukraine.
The signing of an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine is possible only after the Russian troops' return to the positions as of February 23, 2022. This was stated by Ambassador of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslytsia.
Ukraine's representative to the UN declared that today's negotiations in Istanbul demonstrated that Russia, potentially, may be ready to move forward, although a lasting ceasefire and full-scale de-escalation are still far away.
Luxembourg has frozen Russia's assets worth 2.5 billion euros because of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. This was reported by the Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg on Twitter.
It is specified that the Minister of Finance Yuriko Bakes had informed the country's parliament about the status of implementing the EU's anti-Russian sanctions.
German manufacturer Ritter Sport has refused to leave the Russian market, having ignored sanctions amid a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was reported by Handelsblatt.
The company justified that the decision was "difficult" for them, but the termination of cooperation with Russia would lead to a reduction in production, "and, therefore, serious implications for us as an independent medium-sized family business." They insist that their thoughts are about farmers who grow cocoa.
Ritter Sport supplies 7% of its products to the Russian market.
In its report as of 12 PM, March 29th, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs that Russian invaders withdraw some units from the Kyiv region. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that they gave up their plan to surround the capital.
The withdrawal of Russian units from the areas around the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions is still underway.
Certain signs indicate that the enemy is regrouping its forces to focus in the Eastern direction.
At the same time, the so-called withdrawal is probably just a rotation of certain units. The enemy wants the Armed Forces of Ukraine to falsely believe that the plan to surround Kyiv is no longer on the table.
The US Defense Department believes that Russian occupants have now moved away from Kyiv, but we should not lose vigilance - they can still inflict "massive brutality" on the Ukrainian capital. This was announced by the Pentagon, CNN reports.
“We believe that this is a repositioning, not a real withdrawal, and that we all should be prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of Ukraine. It does not mean the threat to Kyiv is over,” said Pentagon press secretary John Kirby at a briefing.
According to Kirby, a small number of Russian troops are now moving away from Kyiv. He reminded that Russia continues airstrikes "even today."
On March 29, Russian occupants staged a provocation in Sumy region to burn down a Ukrainian border checkpoint, the head of Sumy Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyi reported in a video message.
According to the head of the Regional Military Administration, the invaders blew up their armored personnel carrier at the Ryzhivka checkpoint to provide photos for Russian propaganda media.
It was a pre-planned provocation aimed at creating an image for the Russian media that the Ukrainians destroyed their armored personnel carriers, although they did it themselves... After that, they burned Ukrainian border checkpoint on the border with the orcs to take revenge on Ukrainians, Zhyvytskyi reported.