The 379th day of the Ukrainian war. Latest information [papildināts 17:30]

Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the Ukrainian war on March 9. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for a whole year.

17:30 The Russian invaders are planning a large-scale provocation on the border between Ukraine and Belarus. Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was entrusted with organizing the coverage of the events.

According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the main Russian propagandist Solovyov should come to Belarus to cover the provocation in detail. On March 11, it is planned to organize a TV and radio bridge and a live broadcast from the scene for propaganda media in the Russian Federation.

17:00 Russia is ready to continue the war in Ukraine for another two years, according to the Lithuanian military intelligence service.

“The resources currently at Russia’s disposal, according to our assessment, would be enough for a war of such intensity as it is now for two years,” Colonel Elegijus Paulavičs, director of the Second Operational Services Department of the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania, said at a press conference in Vilnius.

He said that “Russia is becoming more and more totalitarian, but the war is eroding the political and economic foundations of the regime.”

The annual report on threats to national security released on Thursday by the Lithuanian Department of State Security and the Second Operational Services Department of the Ministry of Defense states that the war in Ukraine has shed light on “the corruption and inefficiency of the Russian regime, revealed the limits of Russia’s military power and that [Krievijai] has no potential to ensure economic and technological development”.

Russia’s dependence on energy exports has increased and it “has no alternative to this economic model,” the report said.

It concludes that the majority of the Russian population passively supports the war, but last year’s mobilization has revealed that “this support is not as great as the regime’s propaganda has tried to make it out to be.”

“Dissatisfaction with the regime’s policies is currently passive and takes the form of avoidance of mobilization or complaints about disorder in the armed forces and their poor supply,” the report reads.

“As the economic situation worsens, it is expected that dissatisfaction with the Kremlin’s policy will increase in the near future,” Lithuanian intelligence services predict.

The report also states that there is uncertainty about the future among employees of Russian state institutions and businessmen.

Intelligence services indicate that failures in the war, new mobilization and rapid deterioration of the economic situation may negatively affect the stability of the regime.

“The most likely alternative to Putin’s regime is another authoritarian regime, so Russia is expected to continue to be a threat and source of instability in the region at least in the medium term,” the report said.

16:09 During the 24 hours, the Russian invaders carried out 128 artillery strikes on the Bakhmut front, and 41 skirmishes took place.

Serhiy Cherevaty, the speaker of the eastern group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced this on national air. “Bakhmut is still the main direction of the enemy’s strike. Only during the 24-hour front line of Bakhmut – Orehova-Vasilievka, Dubovo-Vasilievka, Bakhmut, Ivanovskoye, Aleksandro-Shultino – the enemy carried out a strike from various weapons. A total of 128 strikes were launched in this direction, in the Bakhmut area – 20 shells,” he said.

Cherevaty added that 41 military clashes took place in the vicinity of Bahmut, and 19 in Bahmut district. As a result, 127 enemies were killed, 135 were wounded.

15:39 The ICEYE satellite purchased with Ukrainian money has helped Ukrainian defenders destroy thousands of Russian equipment, reports the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

It is noted that in 5 months Ukrainian fighters managed to explore almost a thousand areas where Russian units are located in the occupied territories.

According to GUR data, the ICEYE satellite has helped to identify 360 tents in the locations of the Russian army, as well as 7,321 units of Russian special equipment.

15:02 The time has come for Slovakia to make a decision on the transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Minister of Defense Jaroslav Nady announced on Thursday.

“People are dying in Ukraine, we can help this country, now is not the time for our internal political intrigues,” the minister emphasized.

Nadj stated that he had met his Polish counterpart in Warsaw and that Warsaw is also ready to hand over its Russian-made fighter jets to Ukraine if one of its Western partners does so.

In February, Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced that Bratislava was ready to consider handing over the fighter jets, but only after Kyiv had requested it.

Slovakia has 11 MiG-29 fighters, some of which were in service until last summer.

The issue of the delivery of warplanes to Kyiv came to the fore at the end of the year after an agreement was reached on the delivery of heavy tanks to Ukraine.

Britain, France, Poland and the Baltic States support the delivery of destroyers. Germany and the USA are not ready for this.

Washington explains that the use of US F-16 fighter jets and the training of Ukrainian pilots will be very expensive, but they will not succeed in achieving a breakthrough in the war.

The US believes that it would be more targeted to spend this money on other purposes that would be useful to Ukraine.

14.36. The commander of the Lithuanian military intelligence service, colonel Eļegijs Paulavičius, states that Russia has the resources to continue the war of the same intensity against Ukraine as it is now for at least another 2 years, reports TV3.lt.

13.50. The A-50 aircraft of the Russian early warning and control system, which was damaged in an attack on the Machulischu military airfield in Belarus in February, provided support to jet fighters armed with Kinzhal missiles, according to the latest report of the British military intelligence service.

12.58. Poland announced on Thursday that it has delivered ten more promised Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine, promising that the allies will send their tanks in the near future. “We are talking about a heavy tank battalion, which in the case of the Polish part has already been delivered, and in the case of our allies, they will be delivered to Ukraine very soon,” Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told reporters.

12.45. A missile launched by the Russian army hit an energy infrastructure object in the Ivanofrankivsk region, the portal pravda.com.ua reports. “Last night, we survived another massive rocket attack by the Russian occupiers. In our area, a missile also hit an energy infrastructure facility,” the head of the district administration informs “Telegram”.

12.07. On Saturday, March 11, at 2:00 p.m., in Riga, in the square near the House of Congress, city residents and guests are invited to participate in the event – to accompany the humanitarian convoy on its way.

Three large minibuses loaded with various goods will go to Ukraine. The cargo will include food and warm blankets for internally displaced people who have fled Russian-occupied territories. Buses will deliver canned food and meal kits, equipped with self-heating, to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, donated by Latvian hunters – an irreplaceable thing for those who are currently in the trenches on the battlefields in the direction of Bakhmut.

11.55. The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Kevin McCarthy, has announced that he has no plans to go to Ukraine, thus responding to the invitation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the country to verify the situation in Ukraine on the spot.

10.40. On Thursday morning, the Russians fired 48 cruise missiles at Ukraine, 34 of which were shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army Valery Zaluzhny said. In total, on Thursday morning, the Russians fired 81 missiles, including 28 cruise missiles H-101 and H-555, as well as 20 cruise missiles “Kalibr”, informed Zaluzhny.

10.24. On the night of March 9, the Russian army killed four civilians in the Lviv region, reports pravda.com.ua.

09.03. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 156,120 soldiers by Thursday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the general staff, 590 invaders were destroyed during the day.

Since the beginning of the repeated invasion on February 24 of last year, the Russians have lost 3,441 tanks, 6,736 armored personnel carriers, 2,465 cannons, 488 multi-charge rocket systems, 254 anti-aircraft artillery systems, 303 airplanes, 289 helicopters, 2,098 drones, 873 cruise missiles, 5,331 ships, cars and 18 tankers. and speedboats, as well as 237 units of specialized equipment.

08.09. With the possible capture of Bakhmut, the attack of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine will have reached its climax, as it has no reserves to develop a breakthrough in this direction, according to analysts of the US Institute of War Studies.

07.13. Russia carried out a forced missile strike on Ukraine overnight Thursday, causing damage in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa regions, local officials said.

05.29. The court in the German city of Cologne will consider the case against Yelena Kolbasnikova, a Russian citizen, who is accused of war propaganda by publicly supporting Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

05.00. In Ukraine, on the night of Thursday, an air alert was declared in all regions, warning of the threat of missiles. The head of the president’s office called on the citizens in the Telegram app to “under no circumstances ignore [gaisa] anxiety”.

04.24. The US Ministry of Defense is blocking the plan of the administration of President Joe Biden to hand over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague the evidence collected by the US special services about Russian war crimes in Ukraine, reports the US newspaper “The New York Times” (NYT).

The Pentagon opposes helping the ICC investigate Russian war crimes cases because it fears setting a precedent that could help that court prosecute Americans as well.

02.34. About 16 million Ukrainians arrived in the European Union (EU) in 2022, but 11 million of them have already returned to their homeland, stated the EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ilva Johanson.

00.10. “Wagner” fighters in the Bakhmut area are receiving less and less support from Russian troops, according to CNN, citing Western officials. “Wagner’s desperation can be explained simply – they see that not only are they running out of human resources, but now they are also running out of Russian artillery support, which could compensate for these losses.”