[Korrespondent] 22:58 On Friday, March 3, the United States will announce another package of military assistance to Ukraine, said John Kirby, coordinator of the White House National Security Council. According to him, the new package will include ammunition for HIMARS and artillery shells.
22:34 Russia is talking about "Ukrainian saboteurs", Ukraine is talking about a "classic provocation", and the so-called Russian volunteer corps is taking responsibility. This is how they commented on the incident in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, where several men unfurled the RDK flag on video and called on the Russians to "revolt and fight." Read more in Who are they?
21:39 The United States does not transfer intelligence to Ukraine for strikes on Russian territory, said Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder.
21:26 Zelensky said that today he held a meeting of the Headquarters "purely on the front-line situation and security issues." "Commanders are well aware that their task is to do everything to suppress the fire of terrorists. And we are constantly working with partners to increase the range of our capabilities," the president stressed.
20:48 Russia can produce 20 new and upgrade up to 90 old tanks per month, writes The Economist. New tanks are produced in the Russian Federation by only one enterprise - Uralvagonzavod.
19:59 Less than 5,000 local residents remain in Bakhmut, among them 37 children, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA. According to him, these families are in different places and do not want to leave, hiding from evacuation.
19:12 Mandatory evacuation of families with children and people with limited mobility has begun from the Kupyansky community of the Kharkiv region, the OVA reported. This decision was made due to the constant shelling of the territory of the community by Russian troops. Currently, 812 children, 724 people with disabilities, are registered in the Kupyanskaya community, 140 of whom are people with limited mobility. Everyone will be provided with accommodation and food, humanitarian aid and medical support.
19:08 Ukraine will file a complaint against Iran with the International Criminal Court regarding the provision of strike drones to Russia, Shmyhal said in an interview with Al Arabiya. The prime minister stressed that it is necessary to put pressure on Tehran to stop supporting Moscow and prevent Iran from transferring missiles to Russia.
19:03 Leading countries of the world propose three models for the creation of a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, said the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy Denis Maslov. He specified that Kyiv offered two of them.
The main model that Ukraine would like is the creation of a tribunal on the basis of a resolution of the UN General Assembly. "It will be a higher legitimacy, which means that Russian criminals will be prosecuted all over the world," Maslov explained.
The second model provides for the conclusion of a multilateral international agreement, according to which Russian criminals can be detained on the basis of a warrant in countries that support Ukraine and join the special tribunal.
The third option is "hybrid": we are talking about the work of international judges in the national system of organs. According to Maslov, Kyiv considers this model the least successful, because it does not remove the issue of the immunity of Putin, Lavrov and Mishustin.
18:42 Zelensky said that he had the first conversation with the new President of Switzerland, Alain Berset, thanked for the support package for 114 million Swiss francs, discussed joint projects and the Ukrainian formula for peace.
18:36 The FSB of the Russian Federation announced that as a result of the measures taken, "the sortie of Ukrainian nationalists in the Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region has been stopped." The department said that "in order to avoid civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure, the enemy was squeezed into the territory of Ukraine, where a massive artillery strike was inflicted on him."
18:20 In many schools in the Kherson region, the occupiers have introduced mandatory so-called "cadet classes" starting from the first grade. For these students, it is mandatory to wear a uniform and additional classes in "patriotic" education, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
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The Russians have tightened their filtration measures in the occupied territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. In particular, representatives of the FSB arrived in the settlements of Peschanovka and Poyma in the Kherson region. They conduct mass searches of residential premises, checking phones. The main attention is paid to people whose relatives left for the unoccupied part of Ukraine.
18:08 Zelensky appointed Roman Mrochko as head of the Kherson city military administration instead of Galina Lugovaya.
17:49 At the Zaporozhye NPP, with a delay of more than three weeks, a group of IAEA experts was rotated, said the agency's director general Rafael Grossi.
17:17 Aliexpress has blocked the sale of DJI and Autel drones for customers from Russia, and those already purchased are limited in functionality, Mash reports. According to journalists, formally the product cards remained in the store, but after going to the page, the user from the Russian Federation gives an error and the inscription: "There is no such page." In addition, DJI has removed drone control applications from the Russian AppStore. To all complaints, DJI replies that it no longer provides services to the Russians, and also does not provide services for any military activities.
16:53 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that the death toll "as a result of the actions of saboteurs" in the Bryansk village of Lyubechan has grown to two.
16:28 For two weeks, Belarusian partisans conducted aerial reconnaissance at the Machulishchi military airfield using civilian drones bought in a store. According to ByPol, during one of the successful reconnaissance operations, the drone not only flew into the protected area of ​​​​the airfield, flew near the Russian AWACS A-50U military aircraft, but even landed on its radar station ("dish"). At the same time, "the best air defense" and means against drones, which Lukashenka recently told his propagandists about, did not prove themselves in any way.
16:19 In the Beryslav district of the Kherson region, the Russians attacked civilians with drones who were queuing for humanitarian aid near the school. Currently, nine people are known to have been injured, including a child. Information about the victims is being clarified. Civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
16:14 Russia has intensified its information campaign accompanying the assault on Bakhmut in order to demoralize Ukrainian society and the military, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. In particular, the enemy claims that Bakhmut allegedly has no strategic importance and his defense is a political decision. Also, the Russians discredit the military command of the eastern direction, spread fake documents allegedly from the headquarters in the East. In addition, they demonstrate the "strength" of the occupiers and the "weakness" of the defenders, revealing the allegedly known plans for Bakhmut of both warring parties.
15:59 Member of the State Duma Committee on Defense Viktor Sobolev, after the events in the Bryansk region, called for an end to the "special operation" and to declare war on Ukraine: "There are no red lines left in relation to Ukraine. And we need to end the" special operation "and start a war. With the destruction of funds and communication facilities, with coverage of arms deliveries, and this should have been done a long time ago."
Kadyrov, in turn, called for martial law to be introduced "in some regions".
15:38 At a meeting in India, the foreign ministers of the G20 countries could not agree on a final declaration, since the foreign ministers of Russia and China did not agree on two points - to condemn the Russian invasion and demand the withdrawal of its troops, India's G20 chairmanship reported.
15:32 Russia may abandon massive missile attacks, OK Pivden speaker Natalya Gumenyuk admitted: "Massive missile attacks may be a thing of the past, and now the enemy is at the stage of searching for new tactics ... it begins to stretch missile strikes in time. Sometimes this is a combination of strikes from the sea and air, as well as small parties of shaheeds. Now they want to neutralize our air defense and deliver effective strikes. The objective situation is that the Russian Federation already has much fewer missiles, but still has them."
15:14 Russian propagandists themselves got confused in the information, covering the topic of allegedly "Ukrainian saboteurs" who penetrated into the Russian Federation. And in the number of "hostages", "seizing a school bus", injuring "children and killing civilians". Later, all this information was denied by local media and eyewitnesses. Read more about what happened in the material of the state of emergency in the Bryansk region .
14:53 The Parliament of Moldova adopted a declaration condemning the Russian aggression in Ukraine. 55 deputies from the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) voted for the declaration. The bloc of communists and socialists left the parliament session in protest, and deputies from the opposition pro-Russian party Shor did not participate in the meeting.
14:39 Russians fired artillery at Belozerka village in Kherson region, two people were injured, the Office of the President reported.
14:20 France is considering the possibility of transferring its Mirage fighters to Ukraine, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said. According to him, pilot training can be organized in Poland. We are talking about 12 aircraft put into storage in the summer of 2022.
14:17 Putin called the incident in the Bryansk region a "terrorist attack" and said that "they opened fire, seeing that there were children in the car." Putin also added that "it was precisely such people who set themselves the task of depriving us of our historical memory, depriving us of our history, our traditions and language."
14:13 Blinken and Lavrov had a short conversation during a meeting of G20 diplomats, Associated Press reports. This is their first face-to-face meeting since January 2022, and their last telephone conversation took place in July last year. According to AP sources, Blinken, in particular, told Lavrov that the United States would support Ukraine in the conflict until the war ended.
14:09 A fighter of the Russian Volunteer Corps told Important Stories that the RDK actually entered the territory of the Bryansk region: “I just came from there. There were 45 of us on this task. We went in, filmed, ambushed two infantry fighting vehicles. "But there was one injured border guard. No hostages were taken."
14:05 On the territory of the Izyum forestry near the village. Spivakovka, Kharkiv region, four men who were driving a car were blown up by an anti-tank mine - they all died on the spot, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
13:47 In Borodyanka, Kiev region, new graves of victims of the Russian occupation were discovered. According to Babel from the scene, the bodies of three shot men were found in one of the graves. During the exhumation of the bodies, the head of the National Police of the Kiev region Andriy Nebytov said that in total, the bodies of 1373 people were found in the region, of which about 700 were killed by firearms, another 350 died from mine-explosive wounds. In addition, 279 people are still missing.
13:43 The monitoring group of Belarus Gayun reported that the Russian A-50 aircraft left the airspace of Belarus. According to preliminary information, the board is sent to the 325th aircraft repair plant located in Taganrog.
13:26 In Kiev, the emergency warning system will be improved, Klitschko said. He said that the relevant work began even before the full-scale invasion of Russia. Systems operating in the USA, Germany and Poland are taken as a sample. The first 15 notification points have already been tested in the Desnyansky district of the capital, and in two weeks another 12 will be added to them. In total, it is planned to install 47 notification points in the Desnyansky district, and 630 in general in Kiev.
The new system can operate for about a week without power - on its own backup equipment. In addition to generating the "Attention to all" signal, it allows you to perform targeted (individual for each loudspeaker) notification of citizens, depending on the type of emergency, its scale and development forecast.
13:21 Peskov called the events in the Bryansk region "an attack by terrorists." According to him, "measures are being taken to destroy them." He also said that Putin, due to the situation in the Bryansk region, canceled a trip to the Stavropol Territory.
13:19 Lavrov said that Russia "does not refuse serious proposals for negotiations" on Ukraine, "but I don't remember anyone calling Kiev for dialogue."
13:13 Soldiers of the Russian Volunteer Corps said that they entered the territory of the Bryansk region in order to "show their compatriots that free Russian people with weapons in their hands can fight the regime."
13:06 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted amendments providing for up to 15 years in prison for "discrediting participants in a special operation," including "volunteers."
12:54 Russia is escalating tension around Moldova and Transnistria to divert the attention of the world from the war in Ukraine and demonstrate some kind of "victory" for the Russian people, Andrey Chernyak, representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, told RBC-Ukraine. According to him, Russians have a very limited contingent in Transnistria: “There are warehouses that they guard, but there is almost nothing in those warehouses, and what remains is old and unusable. But in Moldova they are still they are trying to shake the situation politically - under a false flag."
Chernyak recalled that according to this scenario, the Russians once staged provocations in Donetsk and Luhansk.
12:39 Podolyak also called the events in the Bryansk region a provocation: "The story of Ukrainian DRGs in the Russian Federation is a classic provocation. Absolutely conscious. Russia wants to scare its own people in order to somehow justify the attack on another country and growing poverty during the year of the war. over time, the partisan movement in the Russian Federation becomes stronger and more aggressive. Be afraid of your partisans."
12:26 The General Staff told Babel that Ukraine has nothing to do with the events in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation: "Everything that happens in Russia is the resistance of the local population to the Putin terrorist regime, non-compliance with fire safety measures or other reasons beyond the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, Internet reports about the events in the Bryansk region are a daring Moscow provocation."
12:08 Germany has trained over 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers over the past year, Scholz said during a speech in the Bundestag. The training of more than a thousand soldiers will begin in the very near future, the chancellor noted and stressed that Germany "is becoming the central platform for the training of the Ukrainian military in Europe."
12:03 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov announced a change in the strategy for the de-occupation of Crimea: "The strategy for the de-occupation of Crimea is the time for a new edition. The sequence of means of de-occupation - political, diplomatic, military, economic, etc. - requires a change in priorities."
11:42 The FSB announced that in the border Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region, measures are being taken to destroy "armed Ukrainian nationalists who have violated the state border."
11:16 As a result of a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Zaporozhye, according to preliminary data, four people were killed, eight injured, five more are missing, including a child, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
11:10 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that as a result of a drone attack, a house in the village of Sushany caught fire, and the village of Lomakovka was fired from mortars. In addition, according to emergency services, several people were allegedly taken hostage in a store in the village of Lyubechan, Bryansk region. Local telegram channels write that an electrical substation and a gas station have been blown up in the village of Sushany.
Meanwhile, the authorities of the Tula region announced that a crater from the explosion was found 600 meters from the village of Berezovsky.
10:57 The SBU announced that it had detained a saboteur of the Russian GRU in the Rivne region, who was supposed to undermine one of the key objects of the transport system of the regional center in order to disrupt the supply of Western weapons. He arrived in Ukraine on February 19 with an EU citizen's passport. He was detained while preparing for the sabotage.
10:34 The authorities of the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation said that a group of Ukrainian saboteurs allegedly entered the territory of the Klimovsky district today and fired at a car, as a result of which one person died and a child was wounded. The Russian military is taking measures to eliminate "saboteurs".
10:16 There is no power shortage in the energy system of Ukraine for the 19th day in a row and is not predicted yet. The available capacity in the energy system has grown, which improves its operational security and reduces the risk of shortages, Ukrenergo said. Consumption is covered by Ukrainian generation and insignificant imports.
09:58 Russia does not have the resources to invade Moldova, while Chisinau has enough potential to cope with a possible escalation in Transnistria, Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said. "Russia is waging a hybrid war - a lot of propaganda, disinformation, promotion of certain pro-military narratives. But I'm sure that they will not succeed. All these waves are more of an information war than the real state of affairs," he explained and added that Ukrainian air defense protects and Moldova.
09:41 British intelligence predicts that warm weather in the spring will lead to a further reduction in cross-country travel in eastern Ukraine. Almost certainly by the end of March conditions will be worse after the final thaw. This will complicate ground operations and make it difficult for heavy armored vehicles to move off-road, especially over rough terrain in the Bakhmut area.
09:19 The death toll from a rocket attack on a residential building in Zaporozhye has risen to three, five people have been hospitalized, the Office of the President said.
08:53 In February, international support for the state budget of Ukraine amounted to 2 billion dollars, and since the beginning of the year - 6.3 billion, according to the Ministry of Finance. Of this amount, the EU allocated $3.2 billion, the US - $2.2 billion, and the UK - $498 million.
08:44 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, one person was killed (in Bakhmut), five more were injured. In the Kherson region, 11 wounded, including a one-year-old child, according to the IVA.
08:25 Zelensky showed the consequences of a Russian night strike on a residential building in Zaporozhye.
08:22 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 2.
- personnel - about 150,605 (+715) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3397 (+2),
- armored combat vehicles - 6658 (+20),
- artillery systems - 2398 (+5),
- MLRS - 480 (+1),
- air defense systems - 247 (+0),
- aircraft - 300 (+0),
- helicopters - 288 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2058 (+3),
- cruise missiles - 873 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5264 (+7),
- special equipment - 230 (+0).
08:18 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that Russia's losses during the recent offensive near Ugledar indicate the Russian military's inability to learn from its mistakes. They continued to throw tank columns into Ukrainian ambushes and ended up losing at least 130 tanks and armored personnel carriers during the three-week offensive. This forced the Russian Federation to resort to frontal infantry attacks for the last week.
Analysts also note that Russian units in the Ugledar region, primarily the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, are mostly manned by poorly trained mobilized men. They suffered heavy losses in the area twice: in October 2022 and again in February 2023.
In addition, ISW suggests that the Russian Federation may use the growing threats around the ZNPP to deter a future offensive by the Ukrainian army.
08:12 The main efforts of the Russian army are focusing on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Miner directions. Over the past day, the Defense Forces repulsed more than 170 enemy attacks in the indicated directions, the General Staff said in the morning report . In the Zaporizhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is on the defensive, and in some sectors he is trying to create conditions for going over to the offensive. In the border areas of the Belgorod region, the Russians continue to equip the terrain, install anti-tank barriers.
07:01 The Russians launched a missile attack at night (probably S-300) on a residential building in Zaporozhye. The projectile destroyed three floors, the OVA said.
According to the State Emergency Service, as of 7:00 am, 11 people were rescued (including a pregnant woman), 20 residents were evacuated from a neighboring entrance. The bodies of two people were pulled out from under the rubble, search and rescue operations continue.
03:22 In Russia, in order to "protect against possible aggression, the United States" is allegedly developing "a new type of military operations using nuclear weapons," writes the Military Thought magazine published by the Russian Defense Ministry. The authors believe that the United States, "losing its leadership in the world," allegedly plans to "defeat Russia in the course of a strategic multi-sphere operation" with a nuclear strike on Russian territory.
02:57 The program of the Scheme has published satellite images from Planet Labs, which show the consequences of a fire on the territory of the air defense range, which is located west of the airfield in the city of Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation.
01:39 Slovakia is considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with 10 of its 11 Soviet-made MiG-29 aircraft, which were decommissioned last year, Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said.
01:26 Lavrov, at a meeting with the Turkish Foreign Minister, said that the extension of the grain deal is possible only if Russian interests are taken into account. The US State Department called on Russia to agree to the extension and expansion of the grain deal.
00:45 Reznikov said that he had met with G7 ambassadors: "We talked about the situation at the front and about changes in our ministry. About how we are turning the Ministry of Defense into the Ministry of Counteroffensive. About NATO and weapons. Introduced new deputies: Alexander Pavlyuk, Andrey Shevchenko and Vitaly Deinegu.