30.03.2022, Moscow.
Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine as of 5 p.m. on March 30.
Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the first stage of the special military operation conducted by the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass and Ukraine, the plan was to force the enemy to concentrate its forces, means, resources and combat equipment to hold large population centers in these areas, including Kiev. To paralyze them on the battlefield and without storming these cities, in order to avoid civilian losses, to inflict such a defeat on the armed formations of the Kiev regime that it would not be able to use these forces on the main direction of action of our Armed Forces – in Donbass. All of these goals have been met.
At the same time, the Russian Army also solved another task, namely – in the absence of an influx of fresh enemy forces from the western and central regions of Ukraine through professional military action, using the absolute air superiority it had gained, also using modern high-precision weapons – to create all the necessary conditions for the final stage of the operation to liberate the People’s Republics of Donbass.
To this end, the long-term defensive fortifications created by the Kiev regime over eight years have been and continue to be constantly targeted. All the main lines of communication, supply and approach of reserves have been taken under complete control. Ukraine’s air defence systems, airfield infrastructure, major military depots, mercenary training grounds and concentration centers have been destroyed. These military targets are continued to be targeted.
Thus, all the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces on the Kiev and Chernigov directions have been accomplished. The purpose of the regrouping of the Russian Armed Forces is to intensify action in priority areas and, above all, to complete the operation for the complete liberation of Donbass.
An Su-24 of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down near the village of Tumen in the Rovno region, near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, during an aerial battle.
The Iskander operational and tactical missile system destroyed two large rocket and artillery ammunition depots in the village of Kamenka, Donetsk region.
High-precision airborne missiles destroyed large fuel depots in the areas of Starokonstantinov and Khmelnitskiy, from which fuel was supplied to Ukrainian armored vehicles in Donbass.
Russian air defence forces destroyed 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Izyum, Novaya Kakhovka, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Berdyansk, Gorlovka, Lugansk and Rubezhnoye during the day.
During the day, operational and tactical aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles hit 69 military targets in Ukraine. Among them: three command posts, two multiple rocket launchers, eight ammunition and rocket-artillery depots and 52 strongholds and areas of ammunition concentration.
A total of 124 aircraft and 77 helicopters, 214 anti-aircraft missile systems, 323 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,767 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 186 multiple rocket launchers, 741 pieces of field artillery and mortars and 1,657 pieces of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.
The following information on the Ukrainian military equipment is provided: Destroyed as of today Remaining in service
IFVs: 2416 were available as of February 24, 1767 destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, 649 remained
Planes: 152 were available as of February 24, 124 destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, 28 remained
Helicopters: 149 were available as of February 24, 77 destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, 72 remained
Kiev direction
The Kiev mayor’s office, following Russia’s statement that military activity on the Kiev direction had decreased, reported that there had been no shelling of the Ukrainian capital during the day.
There is a planned regrouping of troops on the Kiev and Chernigov directions. And it began before the negotiations in Istanbul.
South direction
In Melitopol, which is under the control of the Russian troops, the Eternal Flame was lit at the Common grave memorial. According to local residents, it had been out of service for about 7 years. Songwriter and singer Yulia Chicherina participated in the ceremony.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
The Russian Armed Forces, developing an offensive, broke through the enemy’s heavily fortified defenses, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting with units of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian army on the approaches to the village of Velikaya Novosyolka – the Russian Defense Ministry.
The mopping-up of the village of Zolotaya Niva from Ukrainian nationalist formations is underway. The advance was 8 kilometers. Up to 50 Ukrainian army personnel were killed, three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles and eight vehicles of different purpose were destroyed in the area.
During the joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, DPR and LPR to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, a group of DPR troops continues to liberate towns and villages of the Donetsk People’s Republic that were previously under the control of the Ukrainian army.
Currently, 135 towns and villages are under our control. The combat to liberate Mariinka, Novomikhaylovka and Novobakhmutovka are underway.
Pushylin: the offensive operation in Donbass is intensifying on different directions.
The LPR units continue the offensive on Severodonetsk. Combat is underway to mope up the villages of Zhytlovka of the Ukrainian militants.
Ukrainian nationalist battalions on the Severodonetsk direction suffer serious losses. As a result of the disruption of transport communications, their ability to replenish them is blocked. During the day on this direction more than 50 nationalists were killed, 2 tanks, 3 IFVs and two field depots of rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed.
Mariupol
The Ukrainian leadership used helicopters to attempt to evacuate the commander of Azov (organization banned in the Russian Federation) Prokopenko and the commander of the 36th Ukrainian army’s Marine Brigade Baranyuk with a number of very important foreign mercenaries. Two sorties were made for the evacuation. The approach was made from the side of the Sea of Azov. During the first attempt on March 28, one helicopter was destroyed. The second attempt to enter the territory of Azovstal was foiled yesterday, on March 29, but the crew did not dare to enter the air defense zone, and, after being detected, withdrew. The air defense system in the area of the plant was strengthened. Any attempt to evacuate the commanders will be firmly suppressed.
Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 a.m. on March 29 to 08:00 a.m. on March 30, 635 people, including 134 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymyonnoye in the Novoazovsky district. At present, they are in the evacuation center, which has been deployed by the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Situation on the territory of LPR and DPR
The enemy opened fire on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic using 122mm multiple rocket launchers, 152mm and 122mm artillery and 120mm mortars. Areas of eight towns and villages of the Republic camed under fire.
Over the past 24 hours, 23 residential buildings and 6 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. The Ukrainian militants fired a total of 217 rounds of ammunition.
Ukrainian militants opened artillery fire on the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, with a direct hit partially destroying a multi-story building. The fire was opened at 06:30 a.m. The Tekstilshchik neighborhood was hit. Ukrainian militants struck a residential building on Pinter Street with BM-27 Uragan MLRS rockets from positions in the Orlovka-Tonyenkoye sector. As a result of the fire, apartments on the ninth and eighth floors of the first floor of the nine-story building on Pinter Street 8 were destroyed. A school on the same street was also damaged. As a result of the shelling, two people were killed and seven were wounded, including a 1.5-year-old child.
In the Donetsk People’s Republic, 75 transformer substations, 2 boiler houses, 6,004 household customers were left without electric power, the Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR reported. Repair and restoration work will begin as soon as the situation allows.
As a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian army in Spartak, Yasinovatskiy district, residential buildings on Kievskaya Street and Chapaeva Street were damaged.
As a result of overnight shelling of Gorlovka from the positions of Ukrainian militants, 16 buildings were destroyed. According to preliminary reports, two people were killed.
The Ukrainian army fired Tochka-U on Lugansk. A serveceman of the LPR People’s Militia was killed. The missile was launched from Severodonetsk.
Liberated territories
Over the past 24 hours, from 09:00 a.m. on March 29 to 09:00 a.m. on March 30, more than 40 people were wounded as a result of the shelling of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, previously liberated by a group of DPR troops. The Ukrainian army opened the fire.
Political situation
Russian citizens’ support for the military special operation in Ukraine has increased from the initial 65% to 76% – Russian Public Opinion Research Center. The number of those opposed has dropped from 25% to 15%.
Russian Senator Klishas, “Crimes in Ukraine are committed not by individual groups of neo-Nazis, but by the Ukrainian government. It is the authorities in Ukraine that organize and inspire the actions of the neo-Nazis. For the Ukrainian authorities, everything must end in one thing: a large-scale trial against the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.”
The Syrian embassy in Russia reported that it was expanding cooperation with the DPR and LPR, as well as working on the official recognition of the republics. Syrian Ambassador Riad Haddad said that Syria calls on the world community to abandon the dollar and is ready to settle accounts with Russia in national currencies.
Talks between Russian and Chinese foreign ministers took place.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov briefed Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine and the dynamics of the negotiation process with the Kiev regime. The diplomats noted the counterproductive nature of the sanctions imposed by the United States and its satellites against Russia. In addition, Lavrov drew attention to the US military and biological activities in Ukraine during his talks with Wang Yi.
Lavrov and Wang Yi stated that Russia and China continue to strengthen their strategic partnership and speak with one voice in world affairs, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the Chinese leadership is ready to play a constructive role in promoting the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.
Chinese Foreign Ministry official Wang Wenbin, “Cooperation between Russia and China has no limits, our struggle for peace has no limits, our desire to maintain security has no limits, our opposition to hegemonism has no limits. China and Russia together will promote the development of genuine multilateral relations in the world, contribute to the formation of multipolar mechanisms and the democratization of international relations.“
Attempts to isolate Russia economically, financially and logistically are turning into an economic crisis of historic proportions, said Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya.
The Russian Red Cross after watching a video of torture of Russian servicemen asks the International Committee of the Red Cross to urge the parties to respect the fundamental norms of international humanitarian law, chairman Pavel Savchuk told RIA Novosti.
A cleric of military parish Archpriest Oleg Artemov who was killed on March 24 by Ukrainian armt in the border village of Zhuravlevka in Belgorod region as a result of attack using Smerch multiple rocket launcher, was laid to rest in St. Petersburg.
Russia’s Central Bank and the Reserve Bank of India are creating a regulatory framework and mechanism for mutual payments under sanctions against Russia – The Economic Times.
Peskov on the talks, “The positive thing is that the Ukrainian side has at least begun to concretely formulate and put on paper what it is proposing. So far it has not been possible to do this. This is a positive factor. As for the rest we cannot admit anything very promising, any breakthroughs. There is a very long way to go.”
Peskov said that Russia has “no Stalingrads” in its plans for special operations in Ukraine, responding to a request to comment on the opinion of some experts who wonder why negotiations with Ukraine are needed when “Stalingrad is already on the agenda of military actions.”
The Head of the Republic of Crimea Aksyonov announced his intention to submit two bills to the Russian State Duma:
On the nationalization of all property owned by Ukrainian oligarchs, politicians, and statesmen who openly support Nazism and the Kiev regime and located on the territory of the Russian Federation;
banning the schismatic institute – the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Aksyonov, “I want to say that in Crimea none of the Ukrainian crooks will be able to re-register their property anymore. Working out the lists will be completed this week, the republican legislative act will be adopted by the Crimean parliament in a week. Accordingly, decisions on nationalization will be made.”
Medinsky:
Yesterday, the Ukrainian side reported for the first time, and in writing, its willingness to fulfill a number of crucial conditions for building normal and, hopefully, good neighborly relations with Russia in the future.
Ukraine agreed: to refuse to join NATO, refuse attempts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, refuse to deploy foreign military bases and military contingents, to conduct military exercises with foreigners only by agreement with Russia.
Work continues, and I want to emphasize separately that our country’s principled position on Crimea and Donbass remains unchanged.
Participants in the Iran nuclear deal will be able to find a solution in the coming days or weeks, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.
Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mikhail Bocharnikov, “We are surprised by the large number of materials in the Azerbaijani media with unflattering criticism of the position and leadership of Russia. In Russia, such actions are suppressed and therefore access on the territory of Russia is restricted. We have repeatedly had to draw the attention of Azerbaijani authorities to the rampant anti-Russian hysteria in the local media. We hope that it will finally be stopped.”
The BRICS countries will be at the core of the new world order – Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov.
Match TV host Anton Anisimov on the air of the program There is a topic, “I would like to say this for myself. Not on behalf of the channel, but specifically on my own behalf. I wish the Polish national team the biggest failure, including Lewandowski, at the World Cup. Guys, “good luck” to you, you vile creatures”.
South Ossetia will soon take legal steps to join the Russian Federation – President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov.
Sanctions
The weather in the EU countries is worsening rapidly, Arctic cold and snow will cover the continent in early April.
Gazprom informed that the Yamal-Europe pipeline is still pumping gas, all the gas supplied, the Germans are resoldind to Poles and then it remains in Poland without being delivered to Germany. Transit through the Ukraine is kept at the maximum of Gazprom’s contractual obligations.
The Union of Grain Exporters asked the Central Bank to study the possibility for foreign buyers of Russian grain to make payments in rubles for export contracts. The scheme might work at least with Turkey, which is already ready to switch to national currencies in trade.
Germany will not violate contracts and do not pay for gas in rubles, German firms agree with this, according to the head of the Ministry of Economics of Germany.
Germany has activated an early warning regime for emergencies “in case of cutting of gas supplies” from Russia – the German economy minister. Following Germany, Austria has also activated an early emergency warning mode in case of gas supply interruption from Russia. The early-warning mode is a regime of strict gas saving, to which Germany and Austria are adopting.
The Finnish company VR is resuming cargo shipments to Russia three days after announcing their suspension.
Chairman of the State Duma Volodin, “If you want to get gas, look for rubles. There should be no other way. Moreover, it will be correct to expand the list of goods exported for rubles where it is profitable for our country: fertilizers, grain, oil, oil, coal, metals, timber, etc.”.
France has considered all scenarios, including the one in which Russia decides to stop supplying gas to Europe, the Ministry of Economy and Finance said. According to him, such a scenario would be catastrophic, but it is being considered.
Britain refuses to pay for Russian goods in rubles – representative of Prime Minister Johnson.
Bulgaria does not intend to pay in rubles for Russian gas supplies – government spokesman.
France will resume issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens from April 1, a certificate of vaccination is not required.
Estonia proposes to rebuild Ukraine with money from Russia’s oil and gas revenues, so EU payments to Russia for energy supplies, according to Tallinn, should be temporarily deposited.
OPEC+ calls on world leaders to ensure unhindered, stable and secure energy supplies to the world market, the organization’s secretary general said.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources: the EU is studying the possibility of tightening sanctions against Russia in the coming days, including sanctions against Russian banks and the families of businessmen, as well as tightening restrictions on the use of cryptocurrency. The EU is not planning to impose sanctions against Gazprombank and Sberbank at this stage.
Ukraine
The commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces Navy, Nikolay Yevmenov, has been informed by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office of suspicion for air and missile strikes from ships.
The number of refugees who left Ukraine exceeded 4.2 million.
The number of people arriving in Russia from Ukraine and Donbass exceeded 492,000.
Podolyak, “I especially want to stress highlight the part of the negotiations concerning Crimea. Direct bilateral negotiations on the Crimean problem and fixing the current situation for 15 years is a revolutionary proposal. Because it means at least putting the topic of Crimea back on the negotiating agenda. Before that, the Russians categorically refused to do so. And besides, it allows us to preserve the current legal interpretations of Crimea, because for us Crimea is definitely a part of Ukraine. The rejection of mutual military escalation on the Crimean issue is the key to the overall cessation of war.”
Russian Defense Ministry: On March 20, President Zelensky, in a video address to the Israeli Knesset, accused Russia of allegedly striking the city of Uman in the Cherkasy region. To heighten the dramatic effect, Zelensky stated, quote, “this is a place that tens of thousands of Israelis visit every year for pilgrimage.”
In a special military operation, the Russian armed forces do not strike civilian objects. Especially not on places of worship and any other places of public worship.
It is the Kiev regime, in violation of international humanitarian law and simply the norms of morality, that uses such facilities as gathering and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to take part in hostilities.
Today we present evidence received from a member of the Uman Jewish community of the use by the Zelensky regime for these purposes of the building of the new city synagogue, located at Shosseiny Lane 1. Photographs taken on March 21, that is, the day after Zelensky’s speech in the Knesset, record the formation of two columns with nationalists on the synagogue grounds.
I would like to point out that the property, weapons, and ammunition stored in the synagogue building were first loaded by the nationalists into the backs of dump trucks, and then disguised as bags of construction debris.
At the same time, to transport nationalists and foreign mercenaries from the western regions of Ukraine, buses with school vehicle paintings with corresponding “Children” signs are used, as can be clearly seen in the photographs.
Thus, the object of the Jewish cult in Uman is deliberately used by the Kiev nationalist regime for military purposes. In order to provoke a conflict and political pressure of Jewish religious organizations on Russia in the event of a strike on it.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation at the negotiations Arakhamia, “When we come to the conditional signing of the treaty or the moment when it can already be seriously discussed, they [Russian troops] will have to leave completely. And then we will already sit down to sign, endorse or initial it. This is an international fuse, not just our demands or requests, but the necessary conditions to ensure the working signing of this document.”
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declines responsibility for the explosions at the ammunition depot in the Belgorod region, “The detonation of ammunition occurred due to violations of transportation requirements.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba responded to a statement made by Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó, who accused the Ukrainian authorities of trying to influence the Hungarian elections, “It is offensive to see how Minister Szijjártó is ready to make up nonsense for the sake of short-term electoral profit and to destroy our relations with him, which we have been building up for so long. If a medal from Lavrov is more important to him than relations with me, he should say so directly.”
Western countries
Peter Szijjártó, head of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Ukrainian authorities colluded with the Hungarian opposition, “The information published in the press is true. The Hungarian left has failed in an ugly way. Failed with the fact that there are such negotiations. Constant negotiations between the Hungarian Left and the Ukrainian government.” The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry also noted that several days ago Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitriy Kuleba called the Ukrainian Ambassador in Budapest “to consult on the possibility of influencing the results of the Hungarian elections.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to provide Ukraine with new more lethal weapons. “The Ukrainian army is not only holding big cities, it is forcing the Russians to retreat. Our support needs to change with that,” the Times wrote, citing a government source.
Trump called on Putin to release information about ties between Hunter Biden, the son of the current US president, and Elena Baturina. “She [Baturina] gave him [Biden] $3.5 million, o now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer. Why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give the Bidens, both of them, $3.5 million? That’s a lot of money,” Trump stated.
Trump also noted that he would like to know more about Hunter Biden’s relationship with Ukrainian businessman Nikolai Zlochevsky, the owner of the gas company Burisma Holdings. The company hired Biden Jr. in 2014 and, according to the network, paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
A number of Soviet war memorials in Berlin, including those in Treptow Park, were attacked by unknown vandals, the capital’s police told RIA Novosti. In Treptow Park, blue and yellow paint was sprayed on the elements of the memorial. Paint has been sprayed on the Eternal Flame in memory of the victims of the exile at Theodor-Heuss-Platz. In the Tiergarten the memorial Soviet tanks were covered with Ukrainian flags. The prosecutor’s office will check whether there is evidence of a crime.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, “It has become so that in the context of the terrible event that is the war in Ukraine, Poland is setting certain standards here. What used to be called Russophobia is today already mainstream, today is already accepted as the obviousness in which we function.”
Chancellor Scholz discussed with Zelensky security guarantees for Ukraine, Germany as a whole is ready for this – the German Cabinet.
Britain will consider Ukraine’s request to become a guarantor of its security, but excludes the commitments that NATO members have within the framework of the Alliance – Deputy Prime Minister.
Turkey is ready to consider offers to buy air and missile defense systems (air defense and missile defense) from other countries, which are alternatives to the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems (SAM). Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said this.
“Buying S-400 was a necessity. Now we are in talks with France and Italy about [buying] other defense systems. Of course, we will find a solution and be able to buy these systems. We are open to alternatives,” TASS quoted Akar as saying.
The administration of the museum complex in Buchenwald refused to allow representatives of Russia and Belarus to participate in a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp.
There was a surprisingly objective (by their standards) report about “Azov” (organization banned in Russia) on CNN. History, neo-Nazi ideas, symbolism, impunity, infiltration into law enforcement agencies were mentioned.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
