12.03.2022, Moscow.
Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine on March 12 (5:00 p.m.).
High-precision, long-range weapons struck Ukrainian military infrastructure. An airfield in Vasilkov and the main radio-technical reconnaissance center in Brovary were knocked out.
During the day, aviation and air defense forces of the Russian Air Force shot down five unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including two Bayraktar TB-2 and one Tochka-U tactical missile.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Air Force hit 145 military targets of the Ukrainian army. Including: eight command and control posts and communication centers, three Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile systems, five ammunition and fuel and lubricants depots, and 78 ammunition accumulations.
Kiev direction
Ukrainian sources report that 26 looters were already detained in Irpen during the war, and they were immediately sent to territorial defense battalions.
As a result of the strike against the airfield in Vasilkov, the oil depot is on fire again. According to the mayor of Vasilkov, the Russian strike on the airfield in the north of the city disabled the runway and destroyed ammunition and fuel depots.
Kharkov direction
The Ukrainian army continues to move equipment to North Saltovka on the northeastern outskirts of Kharkov. All streets – the supposed routes of Russian convoys – are blocked with the Czech hedgehog.
A T-64BM Bulat tank was seen in the streets of Kharkov near the French Boulevard shopping mall.
Zaporozhzhye direction
The Russian Armed Forces are not yet attempting to block Zaporozhzhye and are moving north to the Donetsk-Pavlograd highway.
South direction
Nikolaev is blocked from three sides, the Russian Armed Forces grouping is south of Krivoy Rog and on the approaches to Nikopol.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
DPR People’s Militia units, with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, took control of the villages of Valerianovka and Zelyony Gay and blocked Novoandreyevka from the south and east. They advanced nine kilometers inland.
Risking their own lives, DPR units evacuated 135 people, including 25 children, from the combat zone in the Mariupol and Volnovakha directions during the day.
DPR servicemen captured three tanks, one BMP, one armored vehicle, and a ZSU-23-4 Shilka surface-to-air missile launcher based on an MTLB.
During the day, eight servicemen of the 36th and 53rd Marine Brigades of the Ukrainian army voluntarily laid down their weapons and defected to the DPR.
A group of LPR troops took control of Surovtsevka, Shchedrishchevo, and Zhytlovka villages and blocked Rubezhnoye. The advance was 6 kilometers.
By now, LPR forces have liberated about 80 percent of the territory. LPR forces are blocking Rubezhnoye, are on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, and are in the process of unblocking Lisichansk.
The Russian Armed Forces, continuing their offensive on a broad front, have reached the villages of Novodonetskoye, Novomayorskoye and Pavlovka. The advance during the day amounted to 21 kilometers.
Volnovakha
The head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration reported that the Ukrainian army retreated from Volnovakha, while fighting continues in the surrounding area.
In Volnovakha, soldiers of the DPR engineering units continue to clear the territory from explosive objects. The civilian population is provided with humanitarian and qualified medical aid.
Mariupol
Combat for Mariupol is underway. DPR units and the enemy are actively using artillery. Sources on the DPR side report that the enemy is occupying multi-story buildings, setting up firing points in them, while civilians are hiding in the basements of these houses.
One of the new information lines of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is the presence of foreign nationals in Mariupol besieged by the allied forces of the Russian Federation, DPR and LPR. The Ukrainian embassy in Turkey has already provided “verified information” that just under a hundred Turkish nationals are now in a certain “mosque in Mariupol under fire.”
Ukrainian social networks spread information that Zelensky allegedly demanded from the General Staff to organize a counterattack to unblock Mariupol. According to the authors, citing an anonymous source, military units on the Azov front will be redeployed for this purpose.
The situation in the republics
Over the past 24 hours, Donetsk, Staromikhaylovka, Aleksandrovka, Olyonovka, Vasiliyevka and Veseloye villagess on the Donetsk direction, as well as Gorlovka and the nearby villages of Dolomitnoye, Komsomolets and Golmovsky were shelled.
As a result of the shelling, four civilians were wounded during the day, two from previously liberated areas. Also, 38 houses and 9 civilian infrastructure facilities in Donetsk and Gorlovka were damaged.
Air defense forces intercepted a Tochka U missile over Shakhtyorsk.
Artillery units of the republics retaliatory fire suppressed enemy firing points.
In the liberated territories of the DPR, more than 20,000 people are without water, heating and gas supply.
The press service of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations, “Considering the area of the liberated territories, the density of mines and the number of unexploded shells, demining will take much time, possibly even decades.”
Another humanitarian convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry arrived in the DPR and LPR.
Donetsk
Kievsky, Kuybyshevsky and Petrovsky districts came under fire. In the Petrovsky district, a direct hit to a house was reported.
As a result of the shelling, the Ahat Jami mosque in Kuybyshevsky district was damaged; the entrance to the mosque, its facade, as well as the boiler house building were damaged. There were no reports of casualties.
Gorlovka
Mikhailovka, the villages of Gagarina Mine, Mine No. 5, Ozeryanovka and Shirokaya Balka were shelled.
The LPR
Pervomaysk was shelled with artillery.
The Ukrainian army shelled the town of Irmino, destroying four houses and damaging a school building and a gas pipeline.
Power engineers have almost completely restored the electricity supply to Zolotoye-5, Donetskiy and Golubovskoye villagess, which had been disrupted by the Ukrainian army’s shelling.
Political situation
Many Russian cities hold rallies in support of the military operation in Ukraine and the servicemen who take part in it.
The Sakharov Center is closed for an unspecified time.
China’s Permanent Representative to the UN Biosecurity Meeting on Ukraine: Concerns expressed by Russia must be taken into account.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov, “Russia warned the United States about the consequences of arms transfers to Ukraine. Convoys with weapons for Ukraine could become targets for the Russian Armed Forces.”
US has more than 300 biological laboratories around the world, Russia will soon provide new data – Ryabkov.
Ukraine
The geography of the air alert is reportedly expanding. Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Lvov, Krivoy Rog, Zaporozhzhye, Poltava, Ivano-Frankovsk, Uman, Volyn, Kiev, Kirovograd, Zakarpattye, Ternopol, Khmelnitsky, Rovno, Sumy, Chernovtsy, and Cherkasy regions simultaneously declared it overnight. Explosions are reported in Sumy.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says that 2.5 million refugees have already left Ukraine.
Almost 94,000 people have left Ukraine in the past 24 hours. The number of those wishing to leave the country decreased for the second day in a row, the State Border Service said. On Friday morning, there were no queues to leave Ukraine at 16 of 22 checkpoints with neighboring countries.
Zelensky called on the Verkhovna Rada to cancel the tax on gasoline and diesel.
A group of liaison officers from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine arrived in Lvov for the likely deployment of an emergency control point in western Ukraine. It is reported that 45 complexes of satellite communication Starlink from Ilona Musk are deployed from Odessa to Lvov. All units of the State Border Service of Ukraine in Western Ukraine are already using them, abandoning their native satellite and wire communications.
According to available information, there is a critical situation with fuel in the area of operation of the so-called United Forces of Ukraine in Donbass. Available supplies will cover demands for several days, and many units are already out of gasoline and diesel. This is also evidenced by footage of massively abandoned Ukrainian army equipment with no signs of combat.
Western countries
UN World Food Program stated that it is working to minimize the knock-on effects of rising food and energy prices. “[As] hunger threatens Ukraine directly, the fallout from this war will spread across the globe. Russia and Ukraine together export about 30 percent of the world’s wheat,” said WFP Executive Director David Beasley. With Russia being such a huge player in the energy sector, inevitable prices hikes resulting from sanctions on its oil and gas will limit access to food for some of the most vulnerable people in the world, many of whom are already facing super-high inflation, according to the report.
Ukraine has requested air-defense missile systems S-300 from the West and there are talks about the possibility of their delivery, the Washington Post newspaper citing an unnamed European official. The source said some Eastern European countries have Buk and S-300 air defense systems, which the Ukrainian army knows how to use, but they are available in small quantities.
As the newspaper notes, United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is planning to travel to Brussels next week to meet with NATO allies and to Slovakia.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
