The General Staff reported that the enemy continues the offensive operation against Ukraine, using aircraft and inflicting missile strikes. The main task of the Russian group, according to the Ukrainian side, is to provide a land corridor between the temporarily occupied Crimea and the continental part of the Russian Federation, take Mariupol in the Donetsk region under full control, seize Kyiv and enter the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
For the assault on Kyiv, according to General Staff, the occupiers want to attract the most combat-ready units and divisions of the National Guard, in particular, the special motorized regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov (Grozny), the 27th special forces detachment “Kuzbass” (Kemerovo), the 604th Special Purpose Center “Vityaz” (Moscow), as well as the private military company “Liga” (former PMC “Wagner”).
The occupiers are trying to attack in many directions, in particular, in Siversky, Donetsk, Tavria, Slobozhansky, but, according to information General Staff, in In general, the moral and psychological state of the enemy is low.
“He is demoralized due to heavy losses in manpower and military equipment, in some areas he resorts to desertion,” the message says.
Kyiv is one of the targets of the invaders, consider the Ukrainian authorities. The Office of the President stated that the invaders want to take control of the capital and replace the legitimate leadership of Ukraine with a puppet one. While the Russian troops have not managed to enter Kyiv, they are fighting with the Ukrainian army and the defense forces in the suburbs of the capital (in particular, in Bucha, Gostomel, Vorzel and Irpin) and periodically fire at objects in the city. On March 1, they attacked the Kiev TV tower and fired at memorial complex “Babi Yar”which is nearby. As a result of the attack at least five people died.
As of March 1 to Kiev from the north a large convoy of military equipment was approaching occupiers, satellite images testified. Its length, according to analysts, was more than 60 km.
On March 7, a Pentagon spokesman said The Washington Postthat this column is “still stalling” near Kiev. The United States believes that the convoy is stuck due to lack of fuel and food. According to the publication, the Ukrainian command ordered the volunteers to ignore armored vehicles and instead attack fuel trucks, which do not have armor and are often driven by poorly trained Russian soldiers, thus Russian vehicles without fuel get stuck and cannot move deeper.
On the morning of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the invasion Russian troops in Ukraine. He stated that the goal of the Russian Federation is “the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.” At about 05:00 Russian armed forces attacked Ukraine from the south, north (including from the territory of Belarus) and east. They started shell Ukrainian positions in the Donbasslaunched rocket and bomb strikes on a number of airfields and other military facilities.
Putin claims that the occupiers in Ukraine attack only the military infrastructure. But they from the first hours of the invasion hitting civilian targets President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said. Russian troops attack residential areas, kindergartens And hospitals. According to the Ukrainian side, the Russian Federation applies in Ukraine multiple launch rocket systems, airstrikes.
Actions of the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine have signs of genocideZelensky stressed.
The exact number of victims of Russian aggression is still unknown. The Ukrainian authorities reported that as of February 28, 352 civilians, 2040 people were injured (authorities did not publish newer data). According to the UN, as of March 7, Ukraine has already at least 406 people died, and 801 was injured. It is known that among the dead – 38 children. Zelensky last spoke about losses among Ukrainian servicemen on February 25 – on the first day of the war, according to him, 137 soldiers died.
Losses of the Russian invaders as of March 7 amounted to more than 11 thousand people, reported the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russia has officially recognized the death of 498 Russian servicemen, another 1,597, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense as of March 2, were injured.
February 27 Ukraine filed a lawsuit against Russia in the International Court of Justice, demanding “to bring Russia to justice for distorting the concept of genocide to justify aggression.” Hearings started March 7. Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan on February 28 in person initiated an investigation into the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He emphasized that there sufficient grounds to believe that both war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed in Ukraine. Besides, On February 28, Ukraine applied to the ECtHR, demanding, among other things, as preliminary measures “Immediately stop military attacks against civilian targets.” March 1 court ruledwho ordered the Russian Federation to stop attacks and bombing of civilian targets.
Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western countries have imposed sanctions against Russia, including personal ones against Putin.
Putin refuses to have a direct conversation with Zelensky. March 3 President of Ukraine turned to the Russian colleague with the words: “Get out of our land. If you don’t want to leave now, sit down at the negotiating table. What are you afraid of?”
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