07.03.2022, Moscow.
Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine on March 7 (17:00).
On the evening of March 6, Russian Air Force fighter aviation and military air defense forces shot down three more Ukrainian Air Force Su-27s near Poltava, one Su-25 near Gostomel, two Mi-24 helicopters near Makarov and eight UAVs, including the Bayraktar TB-2. Three Buk M1 surface-to-air missile systems and two Ukrainian army’s radar stations were hit by bomber and attack aviation.
Ukrainian losses by the end of March 6, 2022
The Ukrainian side lost 12,420 people killed, missing and in critical condition. A total of 793 people were taken as prisoners of war.
A total of 2,262 targets were hit, including:
76 command post and communications center
182 air defence and radar stations
239 tanks
558 armoured vehicles
653 items of special equipment and vehicles
87 pieces of multiple launch rocket launchers
279 pieces of field artillery and mortars
108 aircraft and helicopters
80 unmanned aerial vehicles
As of 10 a.m. Moscow time, a “regime of silence” was declared, and six humanitarian corridors were opened: one from Kiev to Gomel; two from Mariupol to Zaporozhzhye and Rostov-on-Don; one from Kharkov to Belgorod; two from Sumy to Belgorod and to Poltava. The entire withdrawal process will be recorded on the UAV to avoid provocations.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk opposed the humanitarian corridors opened by Russia and actually forbade local authorities to evacuate civilians. The nationalists do not let anyone out through the Russian-organized humanitarian corridors and have not ceased artillery and mortar fire for a single second during the regime of silence.
Kiev direction.
Group O supply convoys are entering the Chernigov region.
The Kiev authorities are doing everything possible to disrupt the evacuation. Messages are sent to residents of towns and villages in Chernigov and Sumy regions urging them not to leave the cities – frightening them that otherwise Russian troops will “capture them and use them as human shields.”
The mayor of Sumy, Aleksandr Lysenko, said that civilians who try to exit to Russia through humanitarian corridors will be shot. In Sumy, African students staged a mass protest – they are being forcibly detained in the city, the local authorities do not allow them to use the humanitarian corridors.
In the suburbs of Kiev (Bucha, Irpen, Gostomel, and Borodyanka), the shooting has practically subsided. The suburbs on the western side are under full control of the Russian Armed Forces.
Kharkov direction
In Kharkov, at night, Ukrainian fighters attempted to drive their families away from the besieged city through the southwestern corridor. At one of the checkpoints, members of the nationalist battalions fired on a convoy of buses. About 30 people were killed, including seven children.
In Kharkov, individual shops of the Malyshev Plant, which produced tanks and armored vehicles, were destroyed.
Ukrainian army’s artillery continues to fire from Kharkov. The reconnaissance groups of the nationalist battalions operate in the forest park area to the north of Kharkov.
The Russian Armed Forces broke through the defensive lines of the Ukrainian army and the National Security Forces in Izyum. The left bank of the Seversky Donets went under the control of Russian forces, the Ukrainian army retreated to the southern half of the city.
Zaporozhzhye direction.
A grouping of Russian troops near Gulyaypolye is blocking the town, where the Ukrainian army’s garrison is located.
Southern direction
A strike was launched against Ukrainian army’s positions in the eastern outskirts of Nikolaev. An ammunition depot was hit. Some areas were left without water and electricity. Communications provided by the Lifecell operator were lost.
The Ukrainian army blew up a bridge near Nikolaevskoye near the Kulbakino airfield in Nikolaev.
Daily life is gradually being restored in liberated Kherson.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
A group of LPR troops, continuing the offensive, took control of the settlements of Smolyaninovo, Voyevodka, Kremennaya, Kudryashovka, Borovenki, Purdovka and Zamulovka. The advance was six kilometers.
Units of the DPR armed forces established control over the settlements of Azov, Novotatarovka and Mirnoye.
Units of the Russian Armed Forces took control of the villagess of Urozhaynoye, Novodonetskoye, Novomayorskoye, Dorozhnyanka, Zagornoye and Charivnoye.
Units of the DPR People’s Militia carried out offensives in Mariupol. The main combat took place in the west of the city – in Novoselovka, Moryakov Settlement, and Osaviakhim, and in the east – in Naydenovka and Azov Koltso.
The nationalists deployed a stronghold with heavy weapons in a school in Mariupol. They are firing at the DPR forces from residential buildings in the Vostochny Microdistrict.
Konashenkov, “Yesterday around 5 p.m. Moscow time on Pobeda Avenue in Mariupol, DPR servicemen encountered a unit of Ukrainian armed nationalists. The militants chased more than 150 civilians ahead of them, shielding them as human shields. Upon discovering the People’s Militia servicemen, the Ukrainian nationalists opened fire on them from behind the civilians. As a result of the shooting, the Ukrainian Nazis killed four civilians and wounded five others. Servicemen of the People’s Militia escorted the civilians out of Mariupol. All of them were provided with necessary assistance.”
The International Committee of the Red Cross said they tried to leave Mariupol via one of the corridors, but Ukrainian security forces did not let them in, saying the road was mined.
The Donbass Post Office started to issue pensions in liberated Granitnoye. The Volnovakha district department of the DPR Interior Ministry opened in the building of the house of culture located in the village of Anadol.
The situation in the republics
A Tochka-U missile was shot down by air defense forces near the Starobeshevo thermal power plant. This is already the 13th Tochka-U shot down in 19 days since the escalation began.
According to the DPR Mission to the Joint Centre for Ceasefire Control and Coordination, over the past 24 hours from 06.03 to 07.03.2022, shelling by the Ukrainian army damaged:
124 residential buildings in Donetsk, Gorlovka, Dokuchayevsk, Makeevka, and Uglegorsk;
24 civilian infrastructure facilities, including a sewage treatment plant and an ambulance station in the Kiev district of Donetsk, two kindergartens in Donetsk and Makeevka, two schools in Gorlovka and Makeevka, six social service facilities, one critical infrastructure facility, and electricity, water and gas supply facilities were hit. Kiev district administrations of Donetsk and Gorlovka, kindergartens and schools came under shelling by the Ukrainian army.
12 vehicles.
More than 800 residents of the liberated districts of the southern DPR applied to the authorities for pensions and social benefits. The payment of pensions has begun in the liberated areas of the DPR.
Cadets of the Civil Defense Academy were deployed to restore the liberated villages of the DPR.
A farewell ceremony was held in Donetsk for the deceased Sparta serviceman Vladimir Zhoga. Despite the danger of being hit by shelling, about a thousand people came to say goodbye.
Donetsk
Kievsky district was shelled with 122mm shells, residential houses and gas pipelines were damaged.
Petrovsky district was shelled with 122mm shells, part of the district was de-energized.
The village of Trudovskaya mine was shelled, a house was damaged.
Gorlovka
Gorlovka was shelled by BM-21 Grad and 120 mm mortars during the day.
The Gorlovka village of Ozeryanovka was shelled.
Dokuchayevsk
Dokuchayevsk shelled in the morning from 120mm mortars.
The LPR
The Ukrainian army Forces opened fire on a Lugansk oil depot using Tochka-U tactical complex from the direction of Severodonetsk. Two tanks with diesel fuel and gasoline caught fire as a result of the missile attack on the oil depot.
The villages of Pervomaysk, Donetskiy, Nizhnee Lozovoye and Logvinovo were shelled. As a result of artillery shelling in Pervomaisk, a 76-years-old woman was killed.
Russian neurosurgeons operated in Lugansk on a 15-year-old boy who was hit by mortar fire on March 2, shrapnel was extracted from his head.
Political situation
The third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine has begun in Belarus.
China is ready to continue playing a constructive role in promoting peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and to act as an intermediary if necessary, said the head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
An air defense missile in the Rostov Region shot down a Ukrainian ballistic missile.
A network of more than 30 biological laboratories has been created in Ukraine as part of the Pentagon’s military-biological programs, the head of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces said. Laboratories in Lvov worked with plague and anthrax pathogens, in Kharkov and Poltava with diphtheria and dysentery.
The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia will meet on March 10 in Antalya, Turkey.
Representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry and the UN held a meeting in Moscow on the situation in Ukraine. They discussed an algorithm of interaction in solving humanitarian tasks on the territory of Ukraine, the DPR and LPR.
Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh provided food and basic necessities for the residents of Kiev and Zaporozhzhye regions.
The Government of the Russian Federation has approved a list of unfriendly foreign states and territories. Russian companies will be required to obtain permission from the authorities to work with companies from these countries. The list includes 48 states, including: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, San Marino, North Macedonia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and the United States.
Peskov made several statements:
Russia will complete the demilitarization of Ukraine;
Russia told Ukraine that it could end the operation “at any moment” if Kiev meets Russian conditions;
Ukraine must amend the constitution and renounce its claim to join any alliance;
Ukraine must recognize Crimea as being a constituent of Russia, as well as the independence of the DPR and LPR.
There was information on social networks that Viktor Yanukovich had arrived in Minsk.
Ukraine
Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, said that the content of the talks remained private so that public opinion would not begin to pressure the Ukrainian side’s position. The Ukrainian authorities are afraid that some concessions they are promising Russia will explode the situation in Ukraine from the inside.
Ukraine has suspended exports of a number of products, including meat, buckwheat, sugar and salt.
There have been numerous instances of Ukrainian National Security Forces fighters shooting civilians, accusing them of aiding Russia, the Russian National Defense Management Center reported.
The Ukrainian army is preparing provocations involving children – a video was published online showing a Ukrainian army’s fighter placing a Molotov cocktail on a playground.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov threatens Russia, “You came to our land – we will come to you.”
Kiev City Hall is asking residents of the capital to pay for housing and utilities.
Less than three hours before the opening of the humanitarian corridors, “absurd” requests were voiced by the Ukrainian side:
Provide evacuation from the towns of Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpen, Dymer and Ivankovo in the Kiev region, as well as Liptsy and Strilech in the Kharkov region, which are under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. At the same time, none of the residents of these settlements expressed a desire to evacuate; people live peacefully in their homes and are not threatened by anything;
Organize the evacuation of the population from the towns of Izyum and Balakleya in the Kharkov region, which are under the full control of nationalist battalions, and the Russian armed forces have nothing to do with ensuring security in these towns yet;
To deliver official Kiev’s alleged humanitarian cargoes to Melitopol and Berdyansk in Zaporohzhzhye region and to the city of Kherson. This also looks cynical to the residents of these cities, because these areas are currently under full control of the Russian Armed Forces, and their population continues to live a peaceful life and is provided with everything they need, including humanitarian aid from the Russian Federation. At present there are absolutely no problems in providing these populated areas with aid.
Western countries
The US and NATO have provided Kiev with more than 17,000 anti-tank weapons in less than a week – New York Times.
The OSCE mission is completely leaving Ukraine.
The Russian army is far superior to the Ukrainian army and is capable of destroying it completely, US Secretary of State Blinken said during a visit to Lithuania.
The price of gas in Europe exceeds $3600 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time in history.
The price of aluminum on the London Stock Exchange rose to $4000 per ton, a historical record.
The French people should try to reduce energy costs, as the French Minister of Economy said.
Hungary banned arms shipments to Ukraine from its territory but allowed NATO troops deployment.
Ukraine’s application for accession to the EU will be discussed in the coming days – the head of the European Council. A number of EU countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, oppose granting Ukraine candidate status this week.
Germany has decided to continue business with Russia in energy supply, energy supplies have been removed from sanctions because there are no other ways to ensure Europe’s energy security now – Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
