Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. The city is blocked. Fighting on the outskirts. There is no direct assault yet. They are still trying to negotiate the withdrawal of civilians, but the Nazis will not refuse a human shield. There will be a storm one way or another.
2. Volnovakha. Surrounded. The stripping process is not fully captured yet. The enemy has very heavy losses,
3. Position near Donetsk. The attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (sally) on Gorlovka did not give any results, both sides suffered losses. The shelling of the territory of the DPR continues.
4. The liberation of the republic continues in the LPR. Svatovo and Novoaidar were liberated. The enemy retreats, abandoning his equipment. It will be kept only in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, but they have already begun to process it there.
5. RF Armed Forces have occupied Balakleya and are moving towards Izyum. And there and Slavyansk not far. It is very likely that in the coming days, part of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that remained in the northern regions of the LPR and did not have time to retreat will be surrounded and liquidated.
6. Kharkov. The RF Armed Forces are already kept in semi-coverage. Fighting on the outskirts. In the city - the methodical destruction of enemy manpower and its organizational and command structure. Along the way, they continue to finish off the remaining military facilities.
7. RF Armed Forces approached Brovary. There is no direct assault yet. Battles near Chernigov, measures to establish full control over Konotop. Trostyanets is completely occupied. Sumy and Akhtyrka are still not completely controlled.
8. To the west of Kyiv, positional battles - the RF Armed Forces are pulling up additional forces. There are losses in equipment on both sides.
9. Zaporozhye direction. Battles near Vasilievka. Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly pouring into the village. Energodar has not yet carried out a cleansing operation.
10. Kherson. The city was occupied at night by the troops of the RF Armed Forces. The local authorities eventually agreed. The city is relatively calm.
11. In the region of Nikolaev, fighting continues to block the city, which has not yet been achieved. The situation in the area of the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog highway is unclear. Helicopter landing in the area of Nikolaev. One of the bridges was blown up near Voznesensk.
12. No one landed in Odessa as usual. In the morning, Russian ships appeared on the horizon, then they withdrew. Beyond the horizon, something smoked. Perhaps there was another naval battle with the remaining boats of the Ukrainian Navy, which, after the battle at Zmeiny, went to Odessa. (later it turned out that a foreign cargo ship was smoking, something might have arrived)
So far, there are no details. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asks Zelensky to achieve a pause in hostilities, since the city is not covered from the land direction and is not ready to repel the attack of Russian columns bypassing Nikolaev from the north.
From a completely fresh, completely wild story in Vasilkovo, where the local Volkssturm staged a massacre at a local school. 4 Volkssturmists killed 14 other Volkssturmists, policemen and civilians.
Ukropropaganda hastened to announce that they were "Russian saboteurs" who rushed into the basement of the school (yes, everything happened at the school), where there were 300 children, protecting whom all these idiots died. This is what giving out weapons to random people leads to. Yesterday, in the same area, Volkssturmists looted 2 collection vehicles.
In this case, Russian propaganda doesn’t even need to try, just show yourself this bloody trash, which says a lot about the Volkssturm and those who created it in this form.
PS. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will be held tomorrow in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Lavrov outlined the negotiating position of the Russian Federation:
⚡️I don’t rule out that someone wanted Russia to get bogged down in a man-made, Western-created conflict in Ukraine
⚡️Russian demands on Ukraine cannot be qualified as its surrender, Moscow offers to negotiate
⚡️If the West decided to lower a new “iron curtain” in front of Russia, we won’t we will worry and find an opportunity to develop
⚡️The task of the operation in Ukraine is to identify specific types of strike weapons that will never be deployed there
⚡️After the end of the conflict, Ukrainians themselves must decide how to live on
⚡️Kiev has not yet confirmed the second round of consultations with the Russian Federation
⚡️NATO is trying to involve neutral countries - members of the European Union in meeting their needs
⚡️Moscow is amazed by Berlin's comments on Ukraine and arms supplies
⚡️Russia during the second round of negotiations with Ukraine is ready to discuss the issue of security guarantees
⚡️Zelensky came to power under the slogans of peace, in the end he became a Russophobe, like the Poroshenko government
⚡️Ukraine has a technical potential to create a nuclear weapon, the Russian Federation will not allow this
⚡️Russia is 100% “successful” in the current situation
⚡️The current situation has developed due to the fact that the West refused to recognize equal rights for the Russian Federation in organizing the European security architecture
⚡️The parameters of the demilitarization of Ukraine have yet to be agreed
⚡️ Moscow will not discuss the topic of Crimea, this topic is closed.
⚡️The West in its sanctions against Russia, including the seizure of assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, did not give a damn about all its principles.
⚡️The purpose of the ongoing operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is to protect people, primarily in the Donbass.
⚡️Russia is now observing "information terrorism" with the stuffing of millions of fakes, which Moscow exposes.
⚡️Russia's position in negotiations with Ukraine: Crimea is part of the Russian Federation, recognition of the DPR and LPR within administrative boundaries, demilitarization, which must have certain parameters.
⚡️Ukraine must go through the denazification procedure, like Germany did in the past.
⚡️During the special operation, we do everything to prevent any serious civilian casualties.
⚡️Russia cannot watch how participants in torchlight processions march under fascist, neo-Nazi banners in modern Europe.
⚡️Russia offers Ukraine an agreement that will ensure the legal rights of all the peoples of this country.
In fact, these are all the same requirements as at the beginning of the operation. Ukrainian sources claim that by March 2, Zelensky was already ready to recognize Crimea and the LDNR within the borders before the start of the operation. But of course this will not suit the Russian Federation, the game is not worth the candle. Incurring significant costs for the operation and from sanctions pressure, from the situation in Ukraine, it is necessary to take the maximum possible result.
UPD: The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has officially announced the losses in Ukraine since the beginning of the operation.
The RF Armed Forces have 498 killed. The Armed Forces of Ukraine - 2,870 killed and 3700 wounded.
Iranian soul
[ColonelCassad] Quotes of great men.
“Putin can surround Kiev with tanks, but he will never get the souls and hearts of the Iranians” (c) Joe Biden
PS. By events.
1. The assault on Mariupol began at night, the fighting is going on.
2. The cleansing of Kherson is almost over, at night the RF Armed Forces were already in the city center. A number of key facilities are occupied.
3. The attack on Nikolaev is developing with the aim of blocking the city.
4. Active fighting continued on the outskirts of Kharkov. The destruction of military installations continued.
5. At night, the base of the same 95th brigade, which in 2014 fired at Slovyansk from Karachun, was wrecked.
Commentary below by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Russian units completely took control of Kherson
The Russian army is in Kherson. Now finally
The political elite of the city entered into negotiations with the Russian Federation, the territorial defense and points of resistance of the Bandera-Shukhevych army were destroyed. There are already many personnel controlling the city by the Russian military. But I would note how considerate the Russians are towards the population - like liberators. In this video, a Russian warns a Kherson resident and tells him to hide.
Now it will be like Melitopol, quiet, calm, the streets are full of lighting and patrols of people's squads from marauders. It is known that the Russians will be preparing military administrations and many current officials will be asked to continue their duties.
From the news on this topic - the mayor of Konotop very actively persuaded the inhabitants of the city that either the city surrenders or there will be a military operation in it. From the facial expressions of the mayor, it was clear that he did not want to expose the townspeople to this risk, but most of the population is still under the influence of Bandera-Shukhevych propaganda and euphoria.
The whole situation in Ukraine rests on three “pillars”, where a huge number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is concentrated.
1. Kharkov, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine pulled their forces 4 days before the hostilities.
2. Mariupol, where there was always a huge amount of Azov.
3. Kiev, where all reserves were pulled from western Ukraine. As soon as two of this list fall, the domino principle is immediately possible.