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2:57 PM, February 26, 2022
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On Saturday, Russian troops continue to attack Ukraine, reports the Ukrainian Army Headquarters.
The main goal of the opponent is to surround and block Kiev, the army points out.
The enemy has launched a redeployment of reserve units in Ukraine’s border areas and continues air strikes on airfields and Ukrainian army groups in eastern Ukraine and the northern part of the Kiev region.
There were separate flights in Sumu, Poltava and Mariupol districts.
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Russian warships in the Black Sea have continued to fire on Ukrainian Kalibr missiles.
Tactical aviation is controlled from Belarus and the occupied territory of Crimea.
Russian troops are reported to be losing momentum and additional troops are expected to enter the battlefield. The Russians are forced to stop due to lack of supplies.
In Polysie, seven Russian battalion tactical groups were stopped on the Borodyanka-Bucha-Vishorod line.
An attempt was made to land in the Tomilivka district. The paratrooper has been destroyed.
All night on Saturday, the Ukrainian army repelled attempts by Russian troops to break into Kiev, and civilians have also been actively involved in stopping Russian tanks. A video has been distributed on social media sites showing Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers being fired one after another on the outskirts of Kiev with Molotov cocktails.
14 battalion tactical groups are also moving to Kiev from the northeast, but they have been stopped in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Chernihiv Mayor Vladislav Artoshenko on Saturday called on the townspeople to prepare for street fighting. The Russians fire the city with Grad jets. A large enemy column was destroyed in the Chernihiv region of Horodno, destroying about 20 technical units.
The Ukrainian army has stopped the enemy’s movement in the direction of Slobizhansk. The defensive battles continue in the Kharkiv region.
After street fighting in Ohtirk in the Sumy region, the city is under the control of the Ukrainian army. The Russians have bombed the barracks in the city.
Ukrainian territorial defense fighters shoot down four Russian drones at Poltava airfield on Saturday
In the Nikolaev region, a Russian cutter and about 20 saboteurs were destroyed in the Koblevska district.
However, Russian tanks are approaching Nikolaev, and the city is preparing to “protect the ring.”
A Russian paratrooper was landed in Vasilyevsky, Kiev, early Saturday morning, but after a heavy battle, the Ukrainians managed to keep the city.
A Russian transport plane IL-76 was shot down at Vasilkiv on Saturday night. All 40 paratroopers and nine crew members were killed.
Ukraine’s Minister for Temporarily Occupied Territories, Irina Vereshchuk, reports that 80 percent of the two-day fierce fighting in Shchastya Luhansk has been destroyed and the city evacuated. The Russians have opened a fire on the Grad jet on the evacuation column.
Sergei Gaiday, head of the Luhansk district administration, reports that the Russians have occupied Stanichnoluhanski, Krimsky, and Markivka.
Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malara reports that according to the data on Saturday at 6 o’clock since the beginning of the Russian aggression 14 Russian planes and eight helicopters were shot down, 102 tanks and 536 armored personnel carriers were shot, 15 cannons, one BUK anti-aircraft missile and 17 cars were destroyed.
The loss of Russian life force has reached 3,000 soldiers.
Meanwhile, Mikhail Podolak, head of Ukraine’s presidential chancellery, has said more than 3,500 Russian soldiers have been killed.
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