27.03.2022, Moscow.
Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine as of 5 p.m. on March 27.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a large fuel base near Lvov with long-range precision airborne weapons.
Russian air defense forces destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed with cruise missiles the workshops of the Lvov radio repair plant, where the Tor and S-125 SAMs were being repaired and upgraded.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a warehouse for S-300 and Buk missiles near Kiev.
The Russian Air Force destroyed 67 Ukrainian military facilities, including two command posts, overnight.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
As of March 27, 2022, in the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a grouping of DPR troops with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces has liberated and established full control over 133 settlements, including Verkhnetoretskoye.
Combats to liberate Mariinka, Novomikhaylovka and Novobakhmutovka are underway.
LPR head Pasechnik on objectives of military operation, “The ultimate goal is, of course, to free LPR territory from fascism and shoulder to shoulder with the Russian army to take part in the ongoing special operation on the territory of Ukraine to completely cleanse and destroy the fascism that has sprouted in the center of Europe in the 21st century.”
Shelling of LPR and DPR territory
The enemy opened fire on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic using 122mm multiple rocket launchers, 122mm barrel artillery and 120mm mortars. Areas of 11 towns and villages of the republic came under the Ukrainian army’s fire.
Over the past 24 hours, 22 residential buildings and one civilian infrastructure facility were damaged. Ukrainian militants fired a total of 416 rounds of ammunition.
As a result of the Ukrainian army’s of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, previously liberated by a group of DPR troops, 42 people were wounded. A total of 44 civilians were wounded in varying degrees of severity throughout the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic during this period. One civilian was killed in Ilovaysk as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian army.
Gorlovka
The Gorlovka-Nikitovka railway line was damaged as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian army. Traffic is currently blocked. Repair and restoration work will begin tomorrow.
From March 28, in Gorlovka, drinking water will be supplied from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Currently, the third lift of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal is de-energized. Water is supplied from the reserve reservoir.
Political situation
LPR head Pasechnik said that a referendum on joining Russia may be held in the republic in the near future.
The Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics have the right to decide to become part of Russia, if it does not contradict their constitutions, Moscow has recognized their sovereignty – Senator Andrey Klishas.
Vladimir Konstantinov, head of the Crimean parliament, “I think that organizing life according to old Russian standards is the most optimal form. And this means that Novorossiya must appear on the political map, which will take over the entire southeast of former Ukraine.”
Head of Crimea Aksenov, “We, the Crimeans, fully support the aspiration of the heroic people of Donbass for unity with Russia. It is this aspiration and awareness of their belonging to the Russian world, to our great civilization that helped the republics to withstand the cruel struggle against Ukrainian Nazism. I am sure that the residents of all the regions of our country will be sincerely glad to see our brothers return to the great and friendly Russian family. I have no doubt that reunification with the motherland will bring freedom, development and prosperity to the LPR, as was in the case of Crimea. The wounds inflicted by the war will be healed. The colossal potential of the Donbass will be fully realized. We are one people, we are united and invincible! We will not leave our brothers!”
Leonid Kalashnikov, head of the State Duma Committee on Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs and a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, on holding a referendum on the LPR re-unification with Russia, “I think now is not the right moment for this. And it is hardly necessary to be concerned with such questions now, when the fate is being decided on the frontline.”
The villages of Parukh and Karaghlukh in Nagorno-Karabakh are under full control of Russian peacekeepers. The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have withdrawn from the territories.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: Any military invasion of Armenia will be met with a response from the Iranian armed forces. The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly stated that it will not tolerate the change of borders of neighboring countries.
Ukraine’s liberated territories
In Kherson and Novaya Kakhovka, regular rallies of supporters of the BanderaNazis government are taking place. Ukrainian flags are still hanging on administrative buildings.
In the city of Genichesk in the Kherson region, a Russian flag is flying over the city council. The issuance of pensions in rubles has begun.
Sanctions
Transit of Russian gas through Ukraine is expected on Sunday at the maximum of Gazprom’s contractual obligations – just over 109 million cubic meters, according to data from Ukraine’s gas transportation system (GTS) operator. At the same time, the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which transports gas through Belarus and Poland, has been operating in reverse mode since March 15; that is, the gas flow is going from Germany to Poland, not vice versa, according to the data of the German company Gascade.
German stores have been asked not to discuss food shortages. On the empty shelves of Stuttgart stores announcements were hung appealing to the local residents not to show discontent over the lack of food.
Bild describes a fight over sunflower oil in a store. Restrictions on the amount of certain foodstuff were introduced all over Germany. In the country, a black market offering a bottle of oil for 200 euros emerged.
Auchan continues to operate in Russia, the company’s CEO said. “The most important thing for us is to keep our employees and guarantee our primary mission: to continue feeding the population of Russia and Ukraine,” he said.
In response, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba started to threaten the company. “Apparently, job losses in Russia are more important than the loss of life in Ukraine. If Auchan ignores 139 Ukrainian children murdered during this month of Russian invasion, let us ignore Auchan and all their products. Boycott,” he wrote on Twitter.
Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, “Russia needs 3 to 6 months to restructure logistics in different sectors, supplies will be redirected to interested countries.”
Cyprus obliged lawyers to disclose all of their Russian clients being subjected to the sanctions by March 31 – to report them to the state authorities.
67% of the UK citizens have problems paying their electricity bills. This is the data of the Sunday Express poll. The energy crisis in the country is exacerbated by the anti-Russian sanctions. 63% of respondents are not satisfied with the anti-crisis program of the head of the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry has reduced the fee for a liter of automobile fuel by 5 pence, but it has not saved the situation. At the beginning of the year the cost of gasoline in the Kingdom was £1.45 ($1.9), but this week it was approaching £1.67 ($2.2).
Financial Times, citing sources: Austria is a real aircraft carrier of secret Russian activities. According to a European diplomat in Vienna, his BFV intelligence agency is considered so compromised that it has been excluded from much of Europe’s intelligence-sharing activity for some time. The country’s Defense Ministry is effectively a division of the GRU, the diplomat added.
Finnish chocolate and bakery manufacturer Fazer plans to change its legal name to OOO Khlebny Dom in order to continue operating in Russia.
India is inclined to continue importing coking coal (a key product for steel production) from Russia, the Iron and Steel Minister said. According to the minister, India plans to double its imports of Russian coking coal. He said the country previously imported 4.5 million tons.
The Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry commented on Serbia’s economic ties with Russia in an era of sanctions:
Exports from Serbia to Russia are declining due to uncertainty amid Western sanctions. A significant number of suppliers have decided to reduce production for the Russian market.
Shipments of goods from Serbia to Russia may be suspended due to the political situation. The main problem is in trade routes, which go through EU countries.
Serbian banks are still carrying out transactions with Russian partners, but difficulties and even refusals are possible. Transactions in rubles take place in smaller volumes and are complicated by the volatility of Russian currency.
European countries will be able to refuse gas supplies from Russia within two years – Borrel.
Ukraine
Former Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Omelyan, “It is good that the West helps us, and we are grateful to the United States and other EU countries that support us both with arms and finances. We have to do everything so that Russia would never rise from its swamps again. And I hope that the discussion about good Russians and bad Russians will end with a short conclusion: a good Russian or just a Moscovite is a dead Moscovite. And they are bad by birth, they are not worth talking about at all.”
Zelensky said that the derusification of Ukraine will take place “in one generation and forever.”
Former Verkhovna Rada deputy and Ukrainian Nazi Irina Farion criticizes refugees from Ukraine for speaking Russian in Poland, “Poland is shocked that Ukrainian refugees come and speak Putin’s language. So Poland is already practicing anxiety, realizing that Putin is coming to ‘liberate’ it from the Russian-speaking population as well. Listen, refugees, stop embarrassing Ukraine by speaking Putin’s language. And don’t be a threat to Poland. Because you have already made that threat to Ukraine.”
Zelensky began blaming the West for the loss of Mariupol, “Ukraine needs airplanes, tanks, missile defense, anti-ship weapons for security – our partners have all this, without all this it is impossible to unblock Mariupol.”
The fuel depot in Lvov was completely destroyed by a strike of the Russian Armed Forces – the head of the military administration of the region.
Former Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov outlined a plan of action for Russian supporters of peace with Ukraine, “They must do their homework. First, remove the tyrant. Then offer a much more liberal policy. Then convince the world to kneel and repent to us for what they have done. Then to pay reparations, to pay contributions. And after that to build a new balance of security.”
Ukraine seeks to exclude Russia from the IAEA – Ministry of Energy of Ukraine. Elena Zerkal, advisor to Ukraine’s Energy Minister, “Now we are working with our partners to remove Russia from the IAEA or at least to reduce its role there and to remove all Russians from key positions they occupy at the International Atomic Energy Agency Secretariat.”
Faction leader of the Servant of the People Arakhamiya, “At another round of video talks today, it was decided to hold the next live round by two delegations in Turkey on March 28-30.”
Western countries
The son of the US President Joe Biden, businessman Hunter Biden provided services to a Pentagon contractor who handled biological projects in Ukraine. That’s according to emails from Biden Jr. published Friday night on the website of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper.
According to the newspaper, Hunter Biden helped the medical company Metabiota, which collaborated with the US Defense Department contractor Black & Veatch on research on deadly pathogens, secure a multi-million dollar contract with the US government. In addition, he put Metabiota representatives in touch with the management of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings for a “scientific project” involving high-level biodefense laboratories in Ukraine.
The disclosed emails also show that a top Metabiota executive asked Hunter Biden in 2014 how the company could promote cultural and economic independence from Russia, an unusual goal for a biotech firm, according to the Daily Mail. As the publication notes, Biden Jr. was instrumental in allowing Metabiota to conduct pathogen research just a few kilometers from the Russian border.
And it was Black & Veatch, whose services were provided by Metabiota, that built a number of biolaboratories in Ukraine to study infectious agents or toxins that can be airborne and cause potentially deadly infections, the newspaper added. According to the newspaper, the son of the current US president invested $500,000 in Metabiota through the Rosemont Seneca Thornton controlled fund.
The transfer of British tanks to Ukraine will not work, the Secretary of State for Defence of the UK believes. It will take a long time for the Ukrainian military to master them, Ben Wallace believes, so Kiev needs help with upgrading or finding Russian and Soviet weapons. Moreover, the Ukrainian Armed Forces face another problem.
Active combat operations are reducing the number of trained Ukrainian army personnel, most of whom are isolated in the east. At the same time, the Ukrainian army’s reserves are running out. The ability to train new fighters after the destruction of a number of training centers is significantly undermined.
Therefore, additional arms deliveries under these conditions become pointless. But the main antimotivation for the Western countries becomes something else – the fact that these arms go to Russia as trophies, which are very interesting for the Russian defense industry.
Sean Penn has called for a boycott of this year’s Academy Awards if the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences does not let Zelensky speak.
Hungary’s reluctance to give up Russian energy will cost it dearly – Polish President.
Russian arguments on security issues must be heard, Erdogan’s spokesman said. “If everyone destroys bridges with Russia, how can a dialogue be established in such a case?” he said.
More than half of the French (52%) believe at least one of Russia’s arguments about the reasons for the special operation in Ukraine, according to an Ifop poll. 28% believe the operation is supported by Russian-speaking Ukrainians who want to free themselves from persecution. 10% of respondents are convinced that Ukraine is ruled by a “junta” that has been “infiltrated” by neo-Nazis.
Macron commented on Biden’s insulting remarks about Putin, “I think we have to rely on facts and do everything so that we would not lose control over the situation. I wouldn’t use those kinds of words because I continue to have discussions with President Putin. We made a choice not to intervene militarily in the conflict. If that is what we want, we should not escalate the situation with words or actions.”
Austrian MPs put up a “massive resistance” to Zelensky’s speech in the Austrian parliament and did not allow it. According to the March 22 Austrian edition of Der Standard, the initiative to invite Zelensky to speak at the Presidium of the National Council came from the Neos party.
However, it was rejected due to the joint efforts of the SPÖ and FPÖ factions. Both political forces explained their opposition by the traditional neutrality of Austria. The Vice President of the Neos parliamentary group, Nikolaus Scherák, accused the SPÖ and FPÖ of “misunderstood neutrality”.
Against the backdrop of constant restrictions on the largest social networks, US billionaire Ilon Musk announced the creation of new open-source platforms and a new content management policy aimed at respecting freedom of speech.
US President Joe Biden plans to propose a minimum income tax of 20% for US households with total assets exceeding $100 million to minimize the negative impact on the local economy after the imposition of sanctions against Russian Federation.
War with Russia is not in the interests of the Georgian people – Georgia’s ruling party. Mikhail Sarjveladze, chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Georgian Parliament and a member of the ruling Georgian Dream party, commented on the call by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov to open a “second front” against Russia: “The call for Georgia to start a war against Russia is not in the interests of the Georgian people. [Such calls] are wrong and not justified.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke about negotiations with Turkish President Recep Erdogan on providing military assistance to Ukraine. Johnson said this during a briefing after the NATO summit, “We agreed with Erdogan as follows: Britain provides Ukraine with anti-battery systems to destroy Russian long-range artillery, from which they shoot Mariupol. This British artillery will also be able to destroy Russian ships at a long distance. And Turkey will deliver another batch of Bayraktars to Ukraine, as well as powerful wheeled tractors with platforms on which British long-range heavy artillery will be loaded and transported to the desired locations,” the message reads.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
