01.03.2022, Moscow.
The Russian forces struck with high-precision long-range air- and sea-based weapons. Two airfields and three air defense radar posts were hit, the strikes excluded the destruction of civilian infrastructure and residential buildings.
The Russian armed forces hit 1325 objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine, including 43 control points and communication centers. 395 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 59 multiple launch rocket systems, 179 field artillery pieces and mortars were destroyed.
Kiev direction
In Kiev, 100 territorial defense groups have been created, which are searching for saboteurs. Civilians are suffering. According to the head of the Sumy region, as a result of a strike on a military unit in Akhtyrka, 70 soldiers of the Ukrainian army were killed.
A large Ukrainian colon left Chernigov and headed for Kiev.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian military will strike at the facilities of the Security Service of Ukraine and the 72nd main Center for Information and Psychological Operations. The Ministry calls on residents of Kiev living near the relay hubs that will be hit to leave their homes.
The first operation for the exchange of prisoners took place in the Sumy region. A Russian officer was released from captivity in exchange for five territorial defense fighters.
Kharkov direction
In Lebyazhye, Kharkov region, a column of the Ukrainian army was destroyed. Nationalists and territorial defense groups use schools and kindergardens that are currently not working due to quarantine as headquarters and points of deployment. The territorial defense groups created in Ukraine did not receive permanent premises, so it is engaged in squatting and looting. Reports from local residents come from Mariupol, Kharkov, and other Ukrainian cities.
In the Kharkov military enlistment office, documents are being burned.
The missile fell near the building of the Kharkov Regional Administration, which was the headquarters of the local territorial defense and where weapons were distributed. According to preliminary information, 6 people were injured, the number of those killed is being specified.
The Ukrainian army’s artillery strikes against civilian areas of Kharkov. On its own territory, where there are no Russian troops. Chaotic blows are inflicted on residential buildings of the southern residential districts of the city.
Several apartments are on fire in a residential building in the Saltovka district in the north of Kharkov. In Chuguev, southeast of Kharkov, demolition men blew up the span of a railway bridge.
In Kupyansk, supporters of the Kiev authorities came out to shout at the Russian troops to leave. The military does not respond to provocations.
The Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive to the south-east of Kharkov and are located near Izyum.
Zaporozhye direction
A large fortified area of the Ukrainian army has been created in Vasilyevka. This is one of the main defensive lines on the Zaporozhye direction. The fortified area is under fire strikes. Local residents report that the Ukrainian army have run out of food, soldiers are starving, rear columns from Zaporozhye do not replenish food supplies.
South direction
Russian troops remained at night on the north-western outskirts of Kherson and did not enter the city. Negotiations were held with the local authorities. In Kherson, the shopping center Fabrika at the north-eastern entrance is burning. The fire department on Vishnevaya Street, 12, was taken under control. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation instruct personnel, form joint fire brigades to eliminate fires. Patrols are being conducted in the area of the bus station.
In Nikolaev, the Ukrainian army established the positions of its equipment under the spans of the Shirokobalsky Bridge in the south of the city. In Bashtanka, Nikolaev region, the positions of the Ukrainian army were struck from MLRS.
The Kanatovo military airfield near Kirovograd (renamed Kropivnitskiy since 2016) was struck. A missile strike was carried out on a military unit (guidance station) in Loshchynovka (north of Izmail).
Iskander-M was used to hit military warehouses in the village of Palanka, Uman district, Cherkasy region. In Odessa, the Ukrainian forces have been preparing for the landing of the marines by building fortifications.
Liberation of the DPR and LPR
The pro-Bandera armed formations of Ukraine were completely knocked out of the village of Bugas. The chief of intelligence of the 24th Aidar brigade surrendered.
Ukrainian nationalists shot civilians in Volnovakha at 10:10 a.m., opening fire on civilians leaving the city with a white flag. Marines of the 36th Brigade of the Ukrainian army left their positions and abandon their equipment.
Attack helicopters Mi-28N Night Hunter of the Russian Aerospace Forces support the offensive of the DPR on Mariupol.
Ukrainian national formations in Kramatorsk seized about 20 OSCE vehicles, the fate of the mission staff is unknown.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation together with the DPR People’s Militia organized two humanitarian corridors for residents of Mariupol, through which they can leave the city until March 2: in the western direction: Mariupol — Mangush; in the eastern direction: Mariupol — Bezymennoye.
Pushilin said that the pace of the military operation in Ukraine is ahead of schedule. The advanced forces of the DPR reached the border of the republic and joined Russian troops, who took control of areas along the coast. The access of Ukrainian units to the Sea of Azov is completely blocked. The troops of the Donetsk People’s Republic conducted successful offensive operations, taking control of the settlements of Ivanovka, Talakovka, Starodubovka, Berestovoe, Belotserkovka. The depth of the group’s advance over the last day was 19 kilometers.
The grouping of troops of the Lugansk People’s Republic with the fire support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has advanced since the beginning of the operation to a depth of 61 kilometers and blocked the village of Svatovo.
The settlements of Novoborovoye, Barykino, Klimovka, Bulgakovka, Golubovka were taken under control.
Advanced units of the DPR entered Volnovakha.
Situation in the Republics
OSCE staff leave the DPR. Eduard Basurin said that OSCE representatives transmitted the coordinates of military facilities in Donetsk to the Ukrainian military.
In Donetsk, 195,000 people are without water. In the Kiev, Leninsky, Kuibyshev, Petrovsky and Kirov districts, the water supply has been reduced by 45%. Repair of the Donetsk Filtration Station is not carried out due to intensive shelling. Water delivery to the population has been organized.
Donetsk and its suburbs are under heavy shelling.
Kiev district
The residential building on Young Miners Street, 41a, was shelled. A 9-year-old girl was injured. On Rubtsovskaya Street, 43, a house was destroyed, people were taken out from the rubble, the administration is resettling them. The area of Miner’s Square was heavily shelled. According to preliminary data, two civilians were killed. School No. 71 was shelled. The shell hit the transformer substation, the Northern water supply unit was de-energized. Residents of the Kiev district do not have water.
Kuibyshev district
A residential building on Azotnoye in Donetsk was damaged. A residential building on Spartak Street, 45, came under fire, and a fire broke out.
Petrovsky District
A supermarket was shelled and a woman was injured.
Leninsky District
School No. 31 was shelled.
In Gorlovka, the intensity of shelling has increased. Intensive shelling of Gorlovka and its suburbs began at 7 a.m. and continued without a break until midday, high-rise buildings were damaged and destroyed in the city center, 19 civilians were injured, there were no deaths. On Golovanov Street and Vvedensky Street, 80, a gas pipeline was damaged as a result of which a fire broke out. Ukrainian shells hit the village of Golmovsky in the area of the treatment facilities. On Kirova Street, 28/6 – a shell hit, the heating was broken, boiling water was flowing. The electric power line was damaged. A large part of Gorlovka was left without electricity. By the evening, the power supply was partially restored. More than 35 destructions of the city’s infrastructure were reported: houses, social institutions.
Houses and infrastructure were damaged in the village of Mikhaylovka, the village of the Izotov mine, on the outskirts of the village of Komarov, on the territory of the Kerammash plant (Golmovsky village), the villages of Bayrak and Russkiy kray, the village of Zaitsevo, the village of Shakhty Izotova. Very intense skirmishes on the line of combat contact in the area of the Gagarin mine and near the village of Zheleznaya Balka. In Elenovka, a direct hit on the Lux store on Tsentralnaya Square.
The central part of Yasinovataya was shelled, the college of construction and residential buildings were damaged.
Situation in the LPR
In the LPR, the following settlements were shelled: Donetsk (several apartment buildings were damaged), Logvinovo, Kalinovka, Molochnoe, Pervomaisk (an apartment building), Sanzharovka, Kirovsk.
Political situation
Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said that among the natives of Chechnya there are losses in Ukraine: two people were killed, six were injured.
Shoygu: The Russian Defense Ministry will hold the First International Anti-Fascist Congress in August.
Azerbaijani nationalists claim to be preparing riots in Russia.
Ukraine
Ukraine demands that the EU write off all the country’s external debts, their amount is now about $ 57 billion.
Ursula von der Leynen said that Ukraine should join the EU only after a certain period of time. Ukrainian publications distorted the meaning of the phrase.
Zelensky said that all major cities of the country are blocked by the forces of the Russian Army.
Zelensky introduced a visa-free regime for foreign mercenaries. Zelensky awarded 6 pilots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posthumously. The Armed Forces of Ukraine still have “no losses”. Among the dead is the best Ukrainian pilot Aleksandr Oksanchenko.
Ukrainian propaganda resources spread fakes with old photos and videos of damaged equipment, on which they draw “Z” signs to pass them off as losses of Russian troops.
Experts estimate the number of fakes in social networks at 1.2 million.
A woman from a staged photo from Kharkov was identified as an employee of the 72nd main Center for Information and Psychological Operations.
The command of the Ukrainian army announced that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hang Ukrainian flags and paint over the letters Z. The war between the power structures of Ukraine will reach a new level.
Ukrainian hackers associated with the Ukrainian Security Service are attacking the infrastructure of the Russian Federation. Banks, gas stations etc. are suffering.
On cryptocurrency exchanges, the collection of assistance to Ukraine has begun. Russian citizens are also involved. More than $ 20 million was collected. The BTC Alpha exchange confiscated the funds of Russian citizens. The owner of the exchange is Ukrainian.
Queues are being formed at Ukrainian gas stations due to a shortage of gasoline and gas. A liter of diesel fuel in Ukraine approached the mark of $ 1.5 per liter. Refueling of cars is limited to 10-20 liters.
In western Ukraine, immigrants from Nigeria and other African countries are discriminated and threatened.
The Georgian authorities are not letting in the Ukrainian plane, which was supposed to pick up 60 Georgian volunteers, which want to go to Ukraine.
The West
The EU will transfer to Ukraine space intelligence data on Russian troops – Borrell.
YouTube blocks RT and Sputnik channels throughout Europe and Ukraine.
On February 28, five Turkish trucks with humanitarian aid for Ukraine arrived in the area south of the city of Giurgiu (Romania) on the border with Bulgaria. Buses will arrive in Ukraine, which will evacuate Turkish citizens.
Kosovo asked to join NATO.
Poland will be a transport hub for the supply of weapons from other countries.
The decision of the West to close the airspace for aircraft from Russia violates international law, said the head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Italy Pierluigi Di Palma.
The International Criminal Court said it would launch an investigation about the situation in Ukraine.
British lawyers who help the Russian authorities should abandon this, said the office of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
In the Czech Republic, those who support the Russian special military operation can be sentenced from one to three years in prison.
Ukraine supplied the United States with 90% of the neon they needed. A key component of gas lasers that are used in the production of microcircuits. Transportation was carried out from the ports of Mariupol and Odessa. These ports are now blocked. Another global crisis is brewing.
Jen Psaki: The United States does not plan to close the sky over Ukraine and will not send troops there
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
