08.03.2022, Moscow.
Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine as of March 8 (5:00 pm).
On March 7, Russian Air Force strike aircraft destroyed 158 military facilities in Ukraine. High-precision, long-range weapons damaged the Ukrainian Air Force’s Ozernoye airfield near Zhytomir. Fighter aviation of the Russian Air Force shot down two MiG-29 and one Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air.
Also destroyed: two Ukrainian divisions of S-300 air defense missile system, three Buk M-1 self-propelled gun mounts, four control points, two radar stations, nine ammunition depots, and attacked 11 areas where weapons and military equipment were amassed.
In order to safely evacuate civilians from populated areas, the Russian Ministry of Defense introduced a “regime of silence” from 10 a.m. Moscow time on March 8 and opened humanitarian corridors from Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, and Mariupol.
946 tons of humanitarian cargo have been delivered to Ukraine and 132 humanitarian actions have been carried out – Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Ukrainian authorities are not allowing people to evacuate from most cities:
Kiev has confirmed only 1 route out of 10 to get people out of Ukrainian cities – from Sumy through Poltava to the border with Poland.
Along the Sumy-Poltava route 723 people were evacuated, including 576 citizens of India, 115 citizens of China, 20 citizens of Jordan and 12 citizens of Tunisia.
Kiev authorities continue to categorically reject all major evacuation routes from Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol to Russia.
Russian Ministry of Defense: Combatants of territorial defense battalions continue to hold hostages in Ukraine as a “human shield” over 4.5 million civilians, as well as about 2 thousand foreigners who have already expressed a desire to evacuate to safe places.
Kiev direction
Ramzan Kadyrov, “The Chechen special forces liberated another Ukrainian village from the Bandera regime. Our soldiers, led by renowned commanders Magomed Tushaev, Daniil Martynov and Khusein Mezhidov, carried out the task without casualties, defeating the Nazis and capturing another of their former campsites. It is very important that not a single civilian was injured during the special operation.”
The Ukrainian army are trying to counterattack on the Kiev section of the front and are sending sabotage groups across the reservoir in two directions:
towards Chernobyl to the village of Kupovate;
to the Irpen river near the villages of Kozarovichi and Demidova.
Two Ukrainian army’s helicopters were shot down near Nezhyn while attempting to approach Russian troops in the Chernigov region. Two surviving crew members were evacuated from the crash site.
In Gomel, near the Gomel-Nechetny railway station, a train with Russian airborne troop equipment was spotted.
Russian armored vehicles passed in the village of Bogdanovka, 23 km east of Kiev.
Kharkov direction
Enemy sabotage groups in the vicinity of Kharkov are being mopped up. Thanks to this work it was possible to carry a humanitarian convoy to Liptsy.
The Ukrainian army shelled Balakleya, under the control of Russian troops. There are reports of civilian casualties.
Footage of the evacuation of foreign students from the city of Sumy appeared on the Web. Ukrainian media reported that a convoy with evacuees from Sumy entered the Poltava region.
The Ukrainian side used more than 50 buses to drive people to the exit from Sumy. In the middle of the road, under the pretext of an “advancing Russian convoy,” the buses were driven back into the city. Ukrainian tanks and units began firing in the southwest of the city even before the convoy returned. The firing came from fields in the Sada area along the H07 highway and the Sumy airport.
Southern direction
A Ukrainian S-300 air defense system was destroyed in Kherson.
In Melitopol, they use social networks to gather people for pro-Banderite rallies for 100 hryvnias per hour.
The Russian Armed Forces are in the town of Snigiryovka in the Nikolaev region. It is reported that the local territorial defense battalions, despite the presence of weapons, did not resist.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
LPR People’s Militia troops took control of the villages of Borsonino, Kremennaya, Peschanoye, Varvarovka, Pshenychnoye, Epifanovka, Novodruzhesk, and Belogorovka. The advance was 9 kilometers. The capture of Belogorovka and Novovoruzhesk means that the LPR has forced the Seversky Donets. The agglomeration of Rubezhnoye-Severodonetsk-Lisichansk is semi-encircled.
LPR Army forces entered Popasna.
A total of about 60 villages and towns have been liberated since the start of the operation. Control has been established over almost all LPR territory. The defeat of nationalist and Ukrainian army’s groups in the area of Rubezhnoye, Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Zolotoye, and Popasnaya is expected to be completed, as well as the destruction of scattered nationalist gangs.
Units of the DPR People’s Militia established control over the Osoviakhim quarter in Mariupol.
DPR units control a stretch of road from Volnovakha to the outskirts of Mariupol. The traffic of civilian transport along this road is still prohibited.
The Ukrainian army’s tanks hit in Gnutovo near Mariupol were equipped with empty dummies instead of dynamic protection.
The following measures to support the population have been introduced in the liberated territories since March 1:
Writing off all debts on loans and credits in banking organizations.
In order to accelerate socio-economic development of the region it was decided to write off utility debts in full.
Payments for gas and heating will be reduced to the domestic level in Russia.
In Kramatorsk, units of the Ukrainian special operations forces are located in a commercial facility. The gyms of schools 6, 15, 19, 20, and 31 have been converted into barracks.
In Dzerzhinsk, the command post of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade is located right in the building of the preventorium Raduga. The equipment and weapons are placed near residential buildings, and the movement of MLRS was spotted on the territory of the Lenin Central City Hospital, which conducts the shelling of Gorlovka.
In Ugledar, the fighters and military vehicles of the National Guard are deployed on the territory of school No. 2 and kindergarten No. 1.
The nationalists again prevented people from leaving Mariupol via the humanitarian corridors. Only one bus with civilians arrived at the intermediate point of the Emergency Ministry, who on their own and under a hail of gunfire of the National Guard still managed to break through from the city.
Situation in the republics
In the past 24 hours, from 03:00 a.m. on March 7 to 03:00 a.m. on March 8, 4 civilians were wounded, 3 of them from territories previously liberated by the DPR.
12 houses and 5 civil infrastructure objects (gas pipelines in Donetsk and Gorlovka) were damaged.
Donetsk and its suburbs, Gorlovka and its suburbs, Verkhnetoretskoye, Ozeryanovka, and Golmovskoye were shelled.
Phoenix, a mobile operator in the DPR, started installing a base station on the border with the Zaporozhzhye region.
Kievsky district, the village of Trudovskaya mine were shelled. Damaged 2 apartment buildings in the Kievsky district, gas and electricity were cut in the house, 2 cars were damaged.
The village of Aleksandrovka was shelled, houses were damaged.
Gorlovka
The evacuation of women, children and elderly residents began in Gorlovka. On March 8, 560 people left for Russia. People were provided with food and hygiene kits, they were met at the border by employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation and resettled in Russia. For tomorrow 250 people have already signed up. If necessary and if there are those willing to evacuate, the evacuation will be carried out on the following days.
As a result of the shelling of the Tsentralno-Gorlovka district of Gorlovka, a number of residential areas suffered significant damage.
The villages Molochny, Gagarin mine, Lenin mine were shelled. Residential buildings were damaged, and the villages of Krasny Partizan and Verkhnetoretske were left without electricity.
A pumping station in the village of Panteleimonovka was de-energized. The Cheremushki residential area was left without water supply.
Also, due to a shell explosion in Krasnogradskaya Street, the villages of Lenin, Pobedy and Nizhny Khutor mines were left without electricity.
On Klyuchevaya Street and along the technological road, gas pipelines were damaged, on Stezhko Street and Chernitsina Street, gas pipelines were also damaged resulting in inflammation. On Klyuchevoy and Krasnogradskaya Streets, power lines were damaged. Many houses were damaged.
The LPR
The villages of Kalinovka, Yuzhnaya Lomovatka, Molochny, Logvinovo, Lozovoye, and Pervomaisk were attacked, BM-21 Grad MLRSs were also used.
The mayor of Pervomaisk said that constant shelling by the Ukrainian army has made it impossible to restore the electricity and water supply to Pervomaisk since 2 March.
Another convoy with humanitarian aid from Russia arrived in Lugansk.
Political situation
The Chinese Foreign Ministry urged the US to publish the data on the military biolaboratories in Ukraine and the viruses that were studied there.
Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that the US policy of expanding NATO to the east played a crucial role in the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis.
China is ready to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine – Xi Jinping.
Eight trucks and more than 30 buses were sent from Zaporozhzhye towards Mariupol. The buses on the way back should pick up people from Mariupol. First of all, women, children and elderly people. The trucks took water, food, and medical supplies to Mariupol – more than 90 tons of cargo in total.
The Russian government approved a resolution to provide free medical assistance to refugees from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine.
The Russian military reported exercises with Bastion anti-ship complexes amid an entering of US destroyers into the Baltic Sea.
Shoygu held a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, discussing the situation in Ukraine and cooperation between the two countries in the defense sector.
Ukraine
Yanukovich addressed Zelensky, “Personally, you must stop the bloodshed at any cost and reach a peace agreement.”
Zelensky said that he did not intend to leave Kiev and remained in the building of the presidential office on Bankovaya Street.
Zelensky, “Denazification, which Putin proposes, is the destruction of the nation, it’s Nazism, like in the 40s”.
Zelensky, “Regarding NATO: I lost interest in this issue after we realized that NATO is not ready to accept Ukraine. The Alliance is afraid of contradictory things and confrontation with Russia.”
Zelensky agreed to have a dialogue with Russia on the recognition of Crimea, the DPR and the LPR. He said he was ready to look for compromises on these issues. In his opinion, the main thing now is to understand “how people will live there in future.”
The adviser of the head of Zelensky’s office disclosed the conditions for discussing the refusal of Ukraine’s membership in NATO: we need security guarantees.
Vodafone, Kyivstar, lifecell launched national roaming in Ukraine. In fact, this means the unification of networks for subscribers.
Ukrainian border guards caught another mobilization evaders who tried to cross the border with Moldova. Among the detainees were the son and grandson of singer Sofia Rotaru, who repeatedly spoke in support of Kiev.
Kiev sent the Red Cross and the Russian Federation the routes of the humanitarian corridors from Volnovakha, Mariupol to Zaporozhzhye, from Kiev, Kharkov to the west, asking Russia to coordinate them.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vereshchuk stated that a humanitarian corridor was in place between Mariupol and Zaporozhzhye, and a humanitarian cargo had also been sent to the city.
The State Emergencies Service of Ukraine has reported that people are being evacuated from Irpen to Kiev.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has information about beating the people suspected of having pro-Russian views who are living on the territories under Ukraine’s control.
Yulia Timoshenko launched a “Close the sky” flash mob.
Ukrainian channels reported that NATO had delivered a new batch of NLAW grenade launchers and Javelin APCs to the country.
Western countries.
The European Union said that Belarus is a “co-aggressor” in the conflict situation in Ukraine.
Failure to comply with anti-Russian sanctions by China could lead to retaliatory steps by the US, the White House said.
Poland passed a law to help Ukrainian refugees. About 1 million people from Ukraine entered the country.
Five and a half thousand sanctions were imposed against Russia, which is more than against the North Corea, Syria and Iran.
Toyota, the world’s largest car manufacturer, is returning to the Russian market. Less than a week has passed since the announcement that Toyota is withdrawing from Russia.
Macron said that even if there are differences, Russia and Russian citizens must be treated with respect.
South Korea followed the USA and the EU in banning transactions with the Russian Central Bank.
The situation in Ukraine may get out of control – NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
