[Korrespondent] 22:46 Canada will transfer about 8,000 155 mm munitions to Ukraine, as well as 12 anti-aircraft missiles to support air defense systems, Defense Minister Anita Anand said following the Ramstein meeting.
22:42 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Russia's aggression is close to "overstraining": "A regular meeting was held in the Ramstein format... there are decisions. This is especially important now - when it is felt that Russian aggression is approaching the moment when it can overstrain. There is no such terrorist who could build up his potential in confrontation with the free world ... The more pressure there is, the faster will be the movement towards the restoration of our territorial integrity and the international legal order."
22:31 The Netherlands and Belgium will give Ukraine two minesweepers. Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov announced the creation of a "ship coalition" in support of our country, which already includes three countries. More details - in the material What boats will Ukraine get .
22:04 Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, 106 military women have died, said the representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lyubov Gumenyuk. According to her, women make up 4% of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or 60,538 women, of which 42,898 are military personnel. Among the military personnel, 7865 people have officer ranks. About 5,000 military women are involved in the fighting. Compared to 2014, the number of female servicemen in the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased by 2.5 times.
21:56 The Italian edition of Il Foglio writes, citing the country's intelligence, that Dmitry Medvedev offered PMC Wagner a $15 million reward for the assassination of Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto. According to Italian intelligence, the Wagner group has at least two cells in Europe - one in the Balkans that moves between Serbia and Albania, and another in Estonia.
Intelligence believes that the murder of Crosetto was ordered because of his recent statements about a significant increase in the arrival of illegal migrants by sea from North Africa, which was provoked by the PMC Wagner in response to support for Ukraine.
21:50 Winter is over, Ukraine has not frozen, moreover, Russia has failed to create some kind of large-scale blackout with its missile strikes. In fact, Ukraine has won a historic battle, engineers are repairing the system faster than it can be destroyed, states The Economist. For more details, see What Russia Has Achieved .
21:18 The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that Kiev itself decides what to do with Bakhmut. At the same time, he expressed confidence that the loss of Bakhmut would not mean the defeat of Ukraine.
21:09 The incident with the American drone in the Black Sea could be unintentional, but it doesn’t matter, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: “It may have been the result of the deep incompetence of one of the Russian pilots. But, in the end, it doesn’t matter, because the important thing is what actually happened: a Russian plane shot down an American aircraft, which could have caused a much larger incident if it were not for favorable weather conditions ... By the way, when you hear the Russians talking about the approach of this drone to their airspace in Crimea, then Crimea is Ukraine. And we carry out these operations in close coordination with our Ukrainian partners."
20:38 Sweden will transfer ten Leopard tanks to Ukraine, and Norway - two NASAMS air defense systems , US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said following the Ramstein-10 meeting.
20:20 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. The conversation took place at the initiative of the American side, the RF Defense Ministry reported. Russian media reported, citing sources in the Pentagon, that the parties discussed the incident with a drone over the Black Sea.
19:29 Zaluzhny said that he had a telephone conversation with the head of the Joint Staff of the French Armed Forces, Thierry Burkar. He said that the attacks of the Russians do not stop along the entire front, but "the situation is under control, despite the complexity." They also discussed issues of strengthening air defense and training of the Ukrainian military.
19:25 The main way to complain about your compatriot in Russia has become a denunciation. In the first six months of 2022 alone, Roskomnadzor received almost 145,000 such requests, and their number is growing every day. Denunciations in the Russian Federation have become the norm and most often relate to reports of a war against Ukraine and demands to remove "pro-Ukrainian propaganda." More details - in the material They even knock on children .
18:59 Reznikov said that the results of the 10th meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format "inspire optimism." “Strengthening air defense, supply of ammunition, training and formation of an “armored fist,” the minister wrote.
18:16 Polish special services have detained six foreigners working for Russia, RMF24 reports. They were probably preparing sabotage on the railway tracks in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship - this is a fundamental transshipment point for Western weapons and ammunition for Ukraine.
18:11 The Russians hit the Marganets of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. According to preliminary information, two people were killed and five injured. Seven high-rise and four private houses were damaged.
17:59 Spain will soon hand over six Leopard 2A 4 tanks to Ukraine, and a little later - four more such vehicles, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said. According to her, "literally yesterday" the training of 55 Ukrainian servicemen, who will be part of the crew and the repair team of these tanks, was completed.
17:46 Denmark will give Ukraine a new package of military assistance worth 134 million euros, the country's Ministry of Defense announced. It will include, in particular, ammunition for small arms, heavy machine guns, air defense missiles, anti-tank mines, etc.
17:40 Slovakia, in the case of the transfer of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine, will receive from the allies financial compensation in the amount of $ 900 million or military equipment and spare parts for it for this amount, Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said.
17:38 India called on the G20 to "move away" from the topic of Russia's war against Ukraine and focus on global poverty, the country's representative Amitabh Kant said at the G20 summit. He, in particular, compared "one war" with the fact that 200 million people are on the verge of poverty. Kant added that "the world must move on" and Europe must find a solution to its problems.
17:26 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, at a meeting with Putin in Moscow, supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
17:00 Zelensky approved the dismissal of the heads of three regional military administrations: Serhiy Gaidai - from the post of chairman of the Luhansk OVA, Maxim Marchenko - Odesa OVA and Serhiy Gamaly - Khmelnitsky OVA.
16:56 The European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning Lukashenka's repressions against civil society in Belarus and calling for tougher sanctions against the Belarusian regime. The document also contains a call for the release of all political prisoners.
16:45 China supports Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said: "Unfortunately, I see that China's goal is to continue this war, make it even more bloody. In this situation, China is secretly or openly supporting Russia... It is very difficult to believe that China can play the role of an intermediary between the two countries.If it were at least neutral, I could imagine such a status, but now I do not see such a possibility.At the moment, I evaluate and see the role of China as rather destructive than constructive.”
16:24 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, told Radio Liberty that collaborator, director of the City Transport enterprise Ivan Tkach, was probably blown up by the occupiers themselves: "Because they are starting to clean up their own traitors. The weaver had information about which of the military moved where. At the same time time, all places of collaborators are very well known to our residents and resistance forces."
15:48 Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev said that the situation with the American drone confirmed the alleged direct participation of the United States in the hostilities in Ukraine. According to him, Russia will try to get the wreckage of an American drone that fell into the Black Sea.
15:19 Prime Minister of Latvia Krisjanis Karins said that after the end of hostilities, Ukraine should become a member of NATO in order to prevent a new war.
15:11 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, in his opening remarks at the Ramstein meeting, which started online, said that the allies should transfer more than 150 Leopard tanks to Ukraine: "The coalition of countries that provides Ukraine with Leopard tanks continues to grow. Now nine countries have committed provide more than 150 Leopard tanks."
14:48 The Slovak government has not agreed on the transfer of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine, international negotiations are still ongoing, Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said.
14:43 Transneft announced that it had found explosive devices at the Novozybkov oil pumping station of the Druzhba pipeline in the Bryansk region. They were allegedly dropped from a drone, the station was not damaged.
14:22 Warsaw has received "clear statements" from several countries that want to supply Ukraine with MiG-29 fighters, said Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller. And the Slovak publication Pravda writes that the Slovak government has begun discussing the issue of transferring its old MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine.
13:51 The Supreme Court of Great Britain ruled in favor of Ukraine in the case of the so-called "Yanukovych's debt" for $3 billion.
Zelensky commented on the decision: "Ukraine won another victory over the aggressor - in the Supreme Court of Great Britain in the case of Eurobonds in the amount of $ 3 billion. The court decided that the defense of Ukraine on the basis of the facts of threats of Russian aggression should receive a full procedure. Justice will be ours!"
13:27 Estonia, Lithuania and Poland have proposed to reduce the marginal price of Russian oil by almost $10 - from $60 per barrel to $51.45. The European Union will discuss changing the price ceiling on March 15. The EU needs the unanimous support of 27 national governments to approve such a decision, writes Bloomberg.
12:48 The space company from Luxembourg Spacety Luxembourg SA is suspected of transferring satellite images for the needs of PMC Wagner in January of this year, Euractiv reports. The Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country have already applied to the prosecutor's office, because they believe that the company also violated EU sanctions. Spacety Luxembourg has already been terminated from contracts to rent offices in Luxembourg, and at least two universities are ending their cooperation with it. The company denies all allegations.
Spacety Luxembourg SA is a subsidiary of China's Spacety China, which has been blacklisted by the US Treasury. She also transmitted satellite images to PMC Wagner.
12:37 Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said negotiations are underway to extend the grain deal for 120 days.
12:13 SBU detained a former employee of one of the structural units of the special services, who called on Ukrainian defenders to desert. On the eve of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, he quit his job and left for one of the EU countries, and from there he called his former colleagues and urged them to desert from Kiev, promising that in this case "everything would be fine" with them. In case of refusal, he threatened to transfer their personal data to representatives of the Russian special services. In March 2023, the attacker crossed the state border of Ukraine, where he was immediately detained.
11:46 Denmark has agreed on the creation of a $1 billion fund for civil, military and economic assistance to Ukraine, the country's Finance Ministry said.
11:29 Moldovan investigative journalists, in cooperation with ten publications from Europe and the United States, learned about the Russian strategy of influencing the country, developed in the Kremlin about two years ago. The strategy defines 2030 as the "deadline" for taking Moldova under political control and distancing it from Western partners. The document was probably prepared in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for cross-border cooperation - the same place where similar plans for the absorption of Belarus are made.
11:22 The EU is finalizing an agreement on ammunition for Ukraine, writes Politico. The EU ambassadors are expected to discuss the agreement during their March 15 meeting. The agreement includes two elements: 1 billion euros will be allocated as a partial refund to countries that can immediately supply ammunition from their own stocks, another 1 billion - for the joint purchase of new ammunition by EU countries.
The publication notes that Russia spends daily from 20 to 60 thousand shells, while Ukraine - from 2,000 to 7,000. In total, the EU countries provided Ukraine with 350,000 155-mm shells during the war.
10:47 The Russians have just hit the civilian infrastructure of Kharkiv, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov clarified that there is not a single military or infrastructure facility in the area of the missile attack site - only residential buildings and urban infrastructure.
10:21 British intelligence predicts tighter travel restrictions for an increasing number of public sector workers in the Russian Federation. Analysts note that since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russian government officials and workers have been subject to increasingly stringent restrictions on travel abroad. Some officials may have had to hand over their passports to the Federal Security Service.
This is an extension of existing measures taken back in Soviet times. Travel restrictions were tightened after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Such measures are likely intended to prevent increasingly disgruntled officials from fleeing, the intelligence said.
09:38 Heavy fighting awaits Ukraine in the spring and summer, but the allies will do everything possible to solve the problem of the shortage of ammunition, said US Department of Defense spokesman Pat Ryder. According to him, today's meeting in the Ramstein format will be devoted to urgent needs, in particular, the supply of ammunition for Ukraine.
09:06 Eight senators from both parties of the United States require the Pentagon to send F-16 aircraft to Ukraine, writes Politico with reference to the document. According to the authors of the appeal, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine "is at a critical stage", and fighters are "a significant opportunity that can change the rules of the game on the battlefield."
09:02 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed (in Kramatorsk), 16 more people were injured. In the Kherson region, four people were injured. In the Kharkiv region, two people died (in Volchansk and in the Kupyansky district), two more were injured, according to the IVA.
08:53 In Russia, from April 1, a new recruitment of contract soldiers into the army will begin - for this, the Ministry of Defense sent orders to the regions indicating the number of people with whom the relevant documents should be signed. Several regional media at once publish the total number of contract soldiers, with whom, according to the plans of the Russian Defense Ministry, it is necessary to replenish the troops - 400,000, Radio Liberty reports.
08:45 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 15.
- personnel - about 161,520 (+980) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3492 (+8),
- armored combat vehicles - 6799 (+10),
- artillery systems - 2528 (+9),
- MLRS - 502 (+7),
- air defense systems - 262 (+2),
- aircraft - 304 (+0),
- helicopters - 289 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2132 (+12),
- cruise missiles - 907 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5377 (+10),
- special equipment - 257 (+1).
08:24 The Russian army is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Maryinsky and Miner directions. Over the past day, the defense forces have repelled more than 90 enemy attacks in the indicated directions, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
In Gorlovka, Donetsk region, the invaders received an order to conduct another wave of mobilization. It is planned to mobilize about 500 people from categories that previously received reservations due to limited or complete unfitness for military service.
02:35 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time held a discussion on Israel's policy regarding the provision of military assistance to Ukraine, writes The Times of Israel. According to the publication, the option of providing military assistance to Kyiv was discussed, but no decisions have been made yet.
02:09 Russia continues to develop biological weapons contrary to the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention, said US State Department spokesman Ned Price. At the same time, Moscow is trying in every possible way to divert attention in this matter from itself - for this, Russian propagandists have been promoting false information about the so-called "biological weapons laboratories" on the territory of Ukraine for many years.
00:12 Danilov denied The Washington Post's information about the alleged deterioration in the quality of the Ukrainian army due to the loss of qualified fighters, which jeopardizes the spring counteroffensive: "Yes, there is a difficult situation. We have been waging war against a large country for a year, but not against But to loosen the situation by providing information that does not correspond to reality is not a very pleasant thing. "