[Korrespondent] 23:22 The Government of Canada has announced a ban on the import of Russian steel and aluminum.
22:08 Finland could, together with other allies, consider providing fighter jets to Ukraine, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said. At the same time, she added that all talk about fighter jets is at an early stage, and this issue will require extensive cooperation between Western allies.
21:43 The Russians fired at the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region four times during the day: two people were killed, five were injured, four of them were in serious condition, the head of the Nikopol RVA Yevgeny Yevtushenko said.
21:02 Norway has launched a program of long-term budget support for Ukraine in the amount of $7 billion for five years, Zelensky said. "We discussed additional steps that we can take together with Norway so that this spring is successful both for Ukrainian defense and for the prospects for pan-European security. We are starting to communicate with Norway about the possibilities of a training mission for our pilots," the president added.
20:51 Russia has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on March 14 regarding "Russophobia in Ukraine and the West," Russian media report, citing the Russian permanent mission.
20:44 Japan will consider the possibility of exporting weapons to countries that are fighting the invasion. In particular, this applies to Ukraine, the country's government said. So far, Japan has only sent bulletproof vests and other non-lethal equipment to Ukraine. According to current rules, Tokyo can only transfer weapons to countries that jointly develop and produce equipment, writes Nikkei Asia. Japan's government and ruling coalition will start discussing arms exports after local elections in April.
20:22 An American expert doubts the effective work of Patriot against a Russian missile, and in Ukraine they say that everything needs to be tested in practice. For more details, see Patriot vs. Daggers .
20:17 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a meeting of the Stavka: "The Commander-in-Chief, the commanders of the directions reported on the situation on the front line, in general, in protecting the state. East and South, the border. Bakhmut and our ability to strengthen there. Our responses to terrorist strikes. Defense of Kherson and the communities of Dnepropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Sumy regions. Our needs for ammunition and supplies."
19:23 Norway, in cooperation with the United States, will send two NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine, Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram said during a visit to Kiev. In addition, according to him, Norway will train the Ukrainian military in the use of this air defense. The Minister also recalled that earlier Oslo helped the United States with the supply of American NASAMS systems to Ukraine.
18:38 The Russians fired on the Krasnogrigoryevsk community in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region: two people were killed, three more were injured. A transport company, a three-story building and seven private residential buildings were damaged, said Serhiy Lysak, head of the OVA.
18:11 Kuleba said that after yesterday's Russian strike on the energy system of Ukraine, a G7+ meeting was held, which was convened by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and chaired by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. "The energy coalition is ready to meet urgent needs, prepare for the next winter season and invest in the long-term modernization of Ukraine's energy sector," the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
18:09 The Legion of Freedom of Russia claims that on the night of March 10, partisans set fire to a Su-27 fighter of the 22nd air regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, based near Vladivostok.
18:04 Sunak and Macron announced that they had agreed to jointly train Ukrainian marines.
17:58 Zelensky said that he had met with Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram: "Our key priority remains unchanged: strengthening the Armed Forces. Both increasing the supply of weapons and accelerating the receipt of already announced assistance."
17:45 Lukashenka signed a decree on calling up reserve officers for military service. According to the document, they are going to call up to 230 men under the age of 27, as well as up to 20 people to the border service.
17:34 The Russians hit the Tauride microdistrict of Kherson from artillery - one person died, the OVA reported.
17:26 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on the international community to condemn the trial of Maxim Butkevich and two other Ukrainians, to demand from the Russian Federation their release, as well as other citizens of Ukraine illegally imprisoned in the temporarily occupied territories and in Russia, and to take effective measures to counter Russian aggression against Ukraine.
17:12 The situation in Bakhmut is aggravated, the enemy continues the offensive and is trying to break through the defense of the Ukrainian troops, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. "Our soldiers are doing everything possible to prevent the enemy from realizing their plans," she added.
16:57 Russia seizes weapons that partners transfer to Ukraine and sends them to Iran, CNN reports, citing its sources. The United States believes that Tehran will try to redesign these weapons.
| More Iranian ghost weapons to come? How exciting. Still, it will keep them busy and out of trouble, possibly for years to come. |
16:43 Zelensky said that Ukraine has nothing to do with blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines. According to him, such rumors are beneficial only to those who are trying to slow down assistance to Kiev: “This plays into the hands of Russia or business groups interested in not introducing powerful sanctions, because their business is suffering ... They can be not only on the territory of Russia. "We are fighting the enemy. He is the only one - Russia. And we are also fighting those who see nothing but money. Their business is suffering because trade with the terrorist state has decreased."
“There are states that allow Russia to bypass sanctions. On the one hand, they support Ukraine, our sovereignty, they even give something to Ukraine “for show”, and on the other hand, they circumvent sanctions, where they earn tens of billions of dollars and, compared to the pre-war period, have an increased trade with Russia," the president said, adding that there are also such countries among the members of the EU and NATO.
16:28 Finland is preparing the 14th package of military assistance to Ukraine, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said at a joint press conference with Zelensky in Kiev. She noted that the military support of Ukraine from her country today is 750 million euros, which makes Finland one of the largest suppliers of military assistance to Kyiv.
16:04 Ukraine would like to have strategic security guarantees while it is moving towards NATO membership, Zelensky said at a press conference with Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin in Kiev: "We need strategic security guarantees. And even if we cannot to be in NATO during the war, we would like to have appropriate security guarantees on the way while we are not yet in NATO. And it is precisely the corresponding reciprocal steps from the NATO member states that are opposite to Ukraine to guarantee its security that we expect at the Vilnius summit."
15:19 France and Britain support Ukraine and seek to provide it with additional support, which will be decisive on the battlefield, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said during a meeting with Macron.
15:01 The Russians fired from the MLRS Hurricane Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region - at least six wounded are currently known, private houses and a gas pipeline are damaged, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
14:43 Ukrainian forces "virtually destroyed" PMC Wagner, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Cherevaty: "Prigozhin has a desire to maintain his military-political subjectivity, to become a powerful figure influencing the adoption of processes in the Russian Federation, but this is hindered by the valor and skill of the Armed Forces of Ukraine , which actually destroyed the Wagner grouping. It suffered significant losses, and, one might say, most of it perished on the Bakhmut fields. "
14:16 Russia attacked Ukraine on March 9 with missiles that it was able to produce in a month, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the MOU, said: "We can say that they have been accumulating forces for a month, in particular, production has been working. In fact, what they could have produced in a month, was spent on Ukrainian transformers".
According to Yusov, Russian stocks of many types of missile weapons are "critically low": "They have 7% of the calibers left at the beginning of the full-scale aggression. They cannot even make up for such costs by production." At the same time, he added that Russia is trying to use all approaches to circumvent sanctions, in particular smuggling, "gray" schemes for the supply of necessary components for the production of weapons.
13:44 In the Kherson region, in the village of Ishchenko, Veliko Oleksandrovsky community, a car was blown up by a Russian mine - two people were killed, two more were injured, the OVA reported.
13:27 The Russians have suffered significant losses near Avdiivka, Marinka and Ugledar, so there is no talk of an attack on Ugledar yet, said Aleksey Dmitrashkovsky, spokesman for the Tauride Defense Forces: “Now we can’t talk about an offensive, since the enemy has suffered quite significant losses. Over the past week, he has been very actively attacking positions on Ugledar, Marinka, Avdeevka, using his best units, but today it is known that the morale of the Russian military has completely fallen.
Dmitrashkovsky also noted that recently the enemy has somewhat reduced its activity in the Donetsk direction - this is due to the fact that Ukrainian units are destroying logistics warehouses, accumulations of personnel and equipment in the Zaporozhye direction. At the same time, although the Russians have reduced their activity, they continue to storm, so the situation remains difficult.
13:06 Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin arrived in Kiev. Together with Zelensky, she honored the memory of the deceased hero of Ukraine Da Vinci.
12:32 Orban said that Hungary and the Vatican are the only states in Europe that stand for peace. He also believes that Western leaders are "in a war fever": "The Germans started with helmets, now they are on tanks, and now they are talking about sending fighter jets." In this regard, Orban did not rule out that Western countries could send their military to Ukraine. "We have never been so close to turning a local war into a world war," the Hungarian prime minister added.
12:08 "Supreme courts" of the self-proclaimed "LDNR" issued "sentences" to three Ukrainian servicemen. In particular, Maksim Butkevich, a Ukrainian prisoner of war, human rights activist and founder of Hromadske Radio, was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was found guilty of alleged "war crimes".
Butkevich joined the Defenders of Ukraine in early March 2022. Russian propagandists reported that he had been taken prisoner in the area of the captured points of Zolote and Gornoe in the Luhansk region on June 24, posting a video of the interrogation.
In addition, the "courts" sentenced to imprisonment two more Ukrainian military prisoners - Viktor Pokhozey and Vladislav Shel (8.5 and 18.5 years in prison, respectively). Shelya is called a fighter of Azov.
11:47 Peskov said that relations between Russia and Ukraine are inevitable in the future, "because we are neighbors."
11:39 Finland will allocate an additional 29 million euros of assistance to Ukraine, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
11:24 Podolyak said in an interview with La Stampa that the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin in two months: "We need long-range missiles. We need to increase the supply of heavy artillery shells of 155 mm caliber. We are not in a hurry, we will reorganize over the next two months. We will exhaust Russians in Bakhmut, and then we will concentrate elsewhere."
10:58 Pope Francis said that behind the war in Ukraine is the confrontation of "several modern empires." The pontiff also reiterated his readiness to speak with Putin to call for peace: "Putin knows that I am available. But there are imperial interests, not only of the Russian Empire, but also of other empires. It is typical for an empire to put nations in second place."
The pope considers what is happening to be a new world war, and Ukraine, according to him, is the battlefield of this war: “In a little more than a hundred years, three world wars began: on the 14-18th, 39-45th and this one, which is also a world war. war. It started little by little, and now no one can say that this is not a world war. All the great powers are involved in it. And Ukraine is their battlefield. Everyone is fighting there."
10:37 After yesterday's Russian attack in Zhytomyr and Kharkiv, some consumers are still without electricity. The critical infrastructure of these cities operates mainly from autonomous power sources, Ukrenergo reported. In addition, on March 9, the enemy continued shelling Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye, which is why emergency shutdowns operate in these regions.
10:33 The British government suspects the Russians of using local firms to launder money earned from the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg writes, citing sources. In particular, one of the companies owns a vessel that was probably used to illegally export grain from Ukraine.
10:25 Russia now does not use the airspace of Belarus for attacks on Ukraine, Yury Ignat, spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said: “Probably, a few months ago, there were launches of “Shaheds” from Belarus, along the Dnieper they went to the Kiev region, they were shot down. Now "Belarus, its airspace is not used. Even for the same strikes with S-300, S-400 missiles. Therefore, today we have launches from the Ryazan region, also from the eastern, southern direction."
10:19 Poland has begun to install anti-tank fortifications on the border with Belarus, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said. He also recalled that in February the construction of fortifications on the border with the Kaliningrad region began. "This is part of our defense and deterrence strategy," the Polish minister explained.
10:14 Sunak and Macron will hold a British-French summit for the first time in five years, at which they are going to agree, in particular, on the joint development of a new generation of long-range weapons to counter the threat from Russia, the British Cabinet reports.
10:08 British intelligence believes that the interval between missile attacks on Ukraine is growing because Russia now needs to accumulate a critical mass of newly produced missiles before it can mount a powerful enough attack to reliably suppress Ukrainian air defenses.
09:37 Ukraine received one of the two Patriot air defense systems promised by the US and Germany, but it has not yet been put into operation, writes the Financial Times.
09:35 SBU reported the suspicion to the general director of the State Enterprise Antonov, his deputy and the head of the aviation security unit, whose actions led to the destruction of the Mriya aircraft. According to the materials of the investigation, on the eve of a full-scale invasion, officials did not allow the National Guard troops to enter the territory of the Gostomel airport to prepare for its defense. This led to the capture of a strategically important airfield, surrounding settlements and the destruction of the An-225 Mriya aircraft.
09:08 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were killed, three were injured. In the Donetsk region, one dead (in Volchenka) and two wounded, according to the IVA.
08:47 At night, the Russians hit the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with rockets and heavy artillery, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. No people were hurt, but businesses and homes were damaged. In the Pokrovskaya community, as a result of the shelling, there was severe destruction at the energy facility, three settlements of the district were partially de-energized. Also, the enemy fired twice at the Krasnogrigoryevsk community from heavy artillery - the transport and agricultural enterprises, the administrative building were damaged.
08:35 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 10.
- personnel - about 156,990 (+870) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3448 (+7),
- armored combat vehicles - 6742 (+6),
- artillery systems - 2475 (+10),
- MLRS - 491 (+3),
- air defense systems - 256 (+2),
- aircraft - 304 (+1),
- helicopters - 289 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2107 (+9),
- cruise missiles - 907 (+34),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5337 (+6),
- special equipment - 240 (+3).
08:18 The Russian army does not leave attempts to surround Bakhmut. The main efforts are focused on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. Over the past day, the Defense Forces repelled 102 attacks by invaders against them, the General Staff said in the morning report .
07:53 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Russia launched the largest missile attack on Ukraine this year only to achieve the goals of state propaganda. The attack, which the Russian Defense Ministry called "retaliation for the terrorist attacks" in the Bryansk region, will not affect or improve Russia's position on the front line, experts say.
In particular, analysts say the Kremlin deliberately fired missiles that Ukrainian air defenses cannot intercept despite stockpiles being cut to appease Russian pro-military and ultra-nationalist circles, which have overwhelmingly called on it to avenge the incident in the Bryansk region. However, most Russian bloggers did not support the March 9 strikes, noting that the Kremlin needs to fundamentally change its tactics for delivering them, given that Ukraine has adapted to the established pattern of attacks.
The ISW also said that Russian forces are preparing to resume offensive operations in the Ugledar region, but constant problems with personnel and ammunition will hold back their advance. In particular, the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade suffered catastrophic losses during the culminating three-week offensive in February against Ugledar. And now Russian troops are likely to rotate the 136th motorized rifle brigade to replace a badly degraded formation, hoping to resume the offensive near Ugledar. At the same time, ISW experts do not believe that the Russians will be able to strengthen their offensive potential in this direction through rotation.
Moreover, the resumption of expensive offensive operations around Vugledar would be a misallocation of already depleted forces to increasingly pointless operational efforts, but the personal motivation of the commander of the Eastern Military District, Rustam Muradov, may encourage Russian troops in the area to resume offensive operations nevertheless, analysts conclude.
02:12 The United States and allies will make every effort to ensure that missile and air attacks from Russia on Ukraine do not become the norm, as the aggressor wants, State Department Speaker Ned Price said. He added that the Ukrainian people, for their part, also very clearly showed that they would not obey, but would continue to defend their country with the support of the United States and partners around the world.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also condemned Russia's missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian targets: "Russian targeted strikes against the civilian population and the energy system are a war crime. This strengthens our common determination to continue pushing reforms in Ukraine on its European path."
00:07 Prigozhin complained that he was turned off special communications and stopped being allowed into the ministries. The leader of the PMC, Wagner, explained that he was blocked from accessing the departments because he asked for ammunition for his mercenaries.