04.03.2022, Moscow.
The Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine as of 5 p.m. on March 4.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s statements about the alleged threat to the nuclear power plant and his talks with Washington and London leave no doubt that the purpose of the Kiev regime’s provocation at the nuclear facility is an attempt to accuse Russia of creating a hotbed of radiation contamination.
All this testifies to the criminal intent of the Kiev regime or to Zelensky’s complete loss of control over the actions of Ukrainian sabotage groups involving foreign mercenaries, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Russian side is creating the necessary conditions for a peaceful and safe life in all the liberated territories and providing unimpeded access to any humanitarian aid to the population.
Since the start of the special military operation more than 149,000 people have been evacuated from danger zones, including 40,629 children, of whom 5,855 have been evacuated in the past 24 hours, including 1,670 children. A total of 16,441 civil cars crossed the Russian border, of which 1,195 during the day. Their passage was allowed under the simplified scheme – without hindrance.
Kiev direction
The Russian Armed Forces partially control Bucha.
Near Kiev, combat resumed – local residents publish footage of the fire in the village of Sofievskaya Borshchagovka.
Telegram channel Rybar reported that an elite Ukrainian special unit, which is not intended for participation in general military operations, departed from Lvov for the combat zone.
Kharkov direction
At the entrance to the village of Alekseevka to the west of Balakleya, the Ukrainian army has equipped positions. They are located on the territory of the monument “Alexeyevskaya fortress”.
Kharkov is operationally encircled, and the main routes and exits are controlled by the Russian army. It is possible to leave the city by civilian cars and railroad transport, but only for civilians. It is not possible to enter the city.
Colonel General Mizintsev, the head of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation, reported that yesterday, at the request of the Russian side, the Kiev authorities provided the contact of an allegedly responsible official in Kharkov, who was supposed to assist in the withdrawal of civilians and foreigners to Russian territory and provide a humanitarian corridor. The official said, “I’m not holding them, let them go where they want.”
Volchansk residents lined up in long lines for humanitarian aid. But, according to the locals, they cannot receive it: the head of the administration, Anatoly Stepanets, has refused assistance from the Russian military.
Zaporozhzhye direction
On March 4, around 2 a.m., while patrolling the protected area adjacent to the Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant, a mobile Rosgvardiya patrol was attacked by a Ukrainian sabotage group. To provoke a return fire on the building, a barrage of small arms fire was fired at the servicemen of the National Guard of Russia from the windows of several floors of the training complex located outside the power plant.
A Russian patrol responded with small arms fire, suppressing the Ukrainian saboteurs’ firing points in the building of the training complex. On leaving the building, a Ukrainian saboteur group set fire to the training building. Fire crews arrived at the building and extinguished the fire. At the time of the provocation, none of the power plant’s regular employees were in the training building, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The nuclear power plant in Energodar came under Russian control. The plant’s personnel continue to work in a normal mode, servicing the nuclear power plant facilities.
Southern direction
In the morning there was a strike on the military depots in Ochakov.
The administration of Nikolaev reported combat to the south of the city near the village of Galitsynovo and the Balabanovka microdistrict. It is reported that units of the 123rd brigade of the territorial defense of the Ukrainian army are stationed there.
In Nikolaev, local residents are trying to chase away the militants of the territorial defense, who are erecting roadblocks near residential buildings.
Residents of Kherson, Melitopol, and the settlements that are under the control of the Russian Armed Forces report that Russian television channels have begun broadcasting, and that local cell phone operators Kievstar and Vodafone Ukraine have stopped working in the city.
A large shipment of humanitarian aid from Crimea was delivered to Melitopol.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
A group of LPR troops, with fire support from Russian troops, reached the Krasny Liman-Yampol-Privolye line.
The LPR military offensive in the direction of Kramatorsk continues.
The cleansing of Volnovakha is almost completed, and the city will be liberated within a few days.
The Russian Air Force destroyed the command post of the Aidar battalion (organization banned in Russia) using an Inokhodets unmanned aerial vehicle.
The DPR army advanced up to 8 km overnight. Nazarovka, Kuybyshevo, Kalinino, and Novogrigorovka were taken.
A group of DPR troops continued to narrow the Mariupol encirclement and took control of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Mariupol.
The Russian Armed Forces are acting at the adjacent flanks to DPR units. They took control of Verkhnyaya Krinitsa, Komsomolskoye, Chistopolye, Novopoltavka, Kamysh-Zarya, and Truzhnevo.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit national battalions in Mariupol with Tochka-U: 20 Azov militants (organization banned in Russia) killed, 10 pieces of equipment destroyed – Basurin.
The situation in the republics
The Ukrainian army fired 10 Grad MLRS rockets at Dokuchayevsk, it also fired 120 mm mortars.
The Ukrainian army shelled the village of Gagarin Mine and Bayrak village in Gorlovka.
In the LPR, the village of Lozovoye was shelled.
Since February 20, 923 infrastructure objects have been destroyed in the DPR villages: life support facilities, residential buildings and social facilities. Gorlovka suffered the most from the fire of the Ukrainian militants, where 337 objects were destroyed and damaged, in Donetsk – 307, in Dokuchayevsk – 149, in Yasinovataya – 59. Significant damage was also reported in the areas of Makeevka, Amvroseyevka and Novoazovsk.
Almost half of the damage occurred in the private sector – 474 houses, 184 apartment buildings and 31 social facilities were also damaged. Serious damage was inflicted on life support facilities in populated areas, with 195 heating, gas and water supply facilities damaged as a result of shelling.
Since 2014, a total of about 30,000 infrastructure facilities have been destroyed by the war.
The Red Cross delivered medicine and food to the town of Schastye, which had been liberated from Ukrainian nationalists.
The first pension payments in the liberated territories will begin tentatively on March 7.
Branches of State Enterprise Posta Donbassa and the Central Republican Bank will be opened in liberated Granitnoye in the near future.
The first family of civilians was evacuated from Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor.
Political situation
The Kremlin is convinced that the negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations should be conducted in silence and not subject to publicity.
The State Duma passed in the second and third readings a bill to introduce punishment for fakes about the Russian Armed Forces.
Launch of “Soyuz-2.1b” rocket with British OneWeb satellites cancelled – Roscosmos.
Ukraine
Verkhovna Rada deputies told Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin that they cannot get to Zelensky in Lvov – he is now in Poland.
Ukraine’s ombudsman rejected agreements to help prisoners of war.
Orthodox churches of the Moscow Patriarchate are being looted in Kiev.
In Lutsk, in western Ukraine, looters are caught and tied to trees and beaten – the police is not functioning.
In Chernovtsy, a tank, which was set up as a monument to the city’s liberation from the Nazi army, has been dismantled.
The Nazis are blockading thousands of Ukrainian citizens, as well as a large number of foreigners, and are not letting them out to be evacuated to safe places. To date, more than 7,500 foreigners are being held hostage: in Kharkov – 3,189 citizens of India, 2,700 citizens of Vietnam, 200 citizens of Jordan, 30 citizens of Egypt; in Sumy – 576 citizens of India, 121 citizens of China and 100 citizens of Ghana, as well as 60 citizens of Egypt and 45 citizens of Jordan, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Neo-Nazis opened fire on a dormitory with Indian students in Sumy; five people were wounded, and the fate of 11 is unknown.
400 Swedes and 50 Norwegians volunteered to participate in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime. Twenty-six Lithuanians joined the Aidar battalion (organization banned in Russia).
The Ukrainian side blew up the support of the railroad bridge in Pavlovka near the large Kuchurgany border crossing on the Ukrainian-Transnistrian border.
Western countries
On March 3, the Czech Republic supplied Ukraine with automatic rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns, and 100,000 rounds of ammunition.
NATO statements on the situation around Ukraine:
In the coming days, the situation in Ukraine will get worse, there will be more deaths and casualties;
the alliance is responsible for ensuring that the conflict in Ukraine does not spread beyond Ukraine, but is not looking for war with Russia;
NATO will keep military channels of communication open with Russia to avoid incidents;
NATO has agreed that there should be no alliance aircraft in the skies of Ukraine and no NATO soldiers on Ukrainian territory;
the alliance calls on Russia to immediately withdraw troops from Ukraine and begin negotiations;
NATO will examine the implications of the conflict in Ukraine for Euro-Atlantic security.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
