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Ukrainian ministry of defense Combat Summary
2022-03-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Censor] As of 22:00 on February 28
Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Russian invasion.

The aggressor's troops regrouped and accumulated weapons and equipment to surround and capture Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odessa, Kherson, and Mariupol.

Parts of the Armed Forces of Belarus are moving to the Ukrainian border in the Volyn direction.

The aggressor violates the laws of war and international humanitarian law - using weapons against civilians, bombing residential areas. State symbols and uniforms of the Armed Forces, the National Guard and the National Police are used for cover.

Commanders of tactical groups of the Russian Federation have an order to destroy mobile communication towers.

As of 19:30 on February 28
Zelensky signed an application for Ukraine's membership in the European Union .

The talks ended: "Having received certain logistical decisions, the parties are moving to their capitals," Podoliak said.

The aggressor fired a missile at Brovary. Probably Iskander. There are wounded.

Photo report from Bucha, which withstood the cost of great destruction.

In the Chernihiv region, the defenders of Ukraine seized equipment and captured the occupiers . In the Sumy region , the occupiers left their equipment and went to the Russian border on foot.

The occupiers will soon start jamming mobile communications and the Internet, - the press center of the Environmental Protection Agency.

As of 18:00 on February 28
Ukraine has prepared an application for accession to the European Union . Borrel replied that this was not the time - the war must end first.

Russia has launched 180 cruise missiles in Ukraine - cruise missiles and Iskanders . Kyiv was bombed for the first time since 1941.

In occupied Berdyansk , residents are blocking equipment of the Russian army.

Exercises for conscripts have been announced in Belarus .

Russian oligarch Deripaska is calling for "an end to all this state capitalism."

Switzerland has lifted neutrality, joined sanctions against Russia and closed the skies to Russian airlines . And Putin's assets will be frozen there as well.

As of 16:00 on February 28
The enemy fired on residential areas of Kharkiv . Unguided bombs were dropped on the city, as was the case in Syria . The consequences are as follows . 11 people were killed and dozens were injured.

Chernihiv is being bombed from planes, there are no safe exits from the city, roads are mined.

Enemy saboteurs were neutralized in the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv . Their goal could be the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church , Metropolitan Epiphanius.

Children in Russia are told in schools that all this is really "protection against genocide."

As of 14:20 on February 28
Defenders of Ukraine captured the Russian anti-aircraft missile system "Pantsir" in the Kherson region.

The General Staff confirmed that the defenders of Snake Island are alive . They are in captivity of the Russian Federation.

Soldiers of Borodyanka's defense in Kyiv region inflict heavy losses on Russian supply columns: three trucks were burned and four were seized .

In the temporarily occupied Berdyansk, locals protested against Russian troops .

The enemy mercilessly shells Chernihiv . As of 12:20 pm on February 28, intensive shelling of Chernihiv, vul. Belov, Rokosovsky, Dotsenko, Pukhov.

"Private and multi-storey residential buildings are in the affected area. There was a fire near the Epicenter," the SES said in a statement.

The Russian occupiers blew up the oil depot in Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, said the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky

"Enemy vehicles are approaching the city from all sides. There is a threat of street fights!" The statement reads.

Negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations have started . Negotiations are taking place on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.

As of 12:50 on February 28
The Russian attack killed 352 people, including 16 children. 2040 people were injured, including 45 children.

There is a high probability of the use of the armed forces of Belarus: Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 11.00 on February 28.

It is noted that for the previous day the Russian occupiers fired 6 missiles (up to 30 missiles) and 4 air strikes, mostly from the airspace of the Republic of Belarus.

Since the beginning of the open aggression, the enemy has used about 180 Iskander cruise and operational-tactical missiles. of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, "the statement reads.

In Polissya, the enemy suffered significant losses and is trying to replenish them at the expense of airborne troops of the RF Armed Forces.

He has completed the regrouping in the Seversky direction and is trying to continue the offensive in the Chernihiv-KYIV direction. Three BTGr in the areas of KHOMUTOVKA, GLUHIV, BATURYN are stopped.

In addition, it is noted that the motorized infantry unit 14 of the Army Corps of the Northern Fleet on the border SUMY - Okhtyrka - Poltava suffered significant losses and lost offensive potential.

The enemy was stopped in the Slobozhansky direction.

In the Donetsk operational area the enemy with forces of 1 and 2 AK with artillery support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tries to conduct offensive actions. The goal of the aggressor to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions has not been achieved.

In the Tavriya direction, the enemy, after regrouping, tried to organize an offensive on MYKOLAIV and did not stop trying to land a naval landing in the area of ​​MARIUPOL. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are defending the borders.

"Despite significant losses and a slowdown in some areas, the enemy is not abandoning its main goal - gaining control of KYIV. The capital's defense forces have taken measures to counter the enemy," the General Staff said.

A group of diverse Navy forces continues to fight in the southwestern part of the Black Sea. Defends bases and ports of ODESSA, SOUTH, OCHAKIV, CHORNOMORSK from the sea direction.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine covers air units and units of operational groups of troops throughout the territory of Ukraine.

Defenders of Ukraine struck a column of occupiers in Chernihiv region with the Hurricane MLRS.

Russian troops fired on Borodyanka near Kyiv : two supermarkets caught fire.

As of this morning , Mariupol and Volnovakha are hot spots in the Donetsk region . Luhansk region holds the defense. Tense situation in Golden and Mountain. The lower one is almost destroyed.

Heavy fighting broke out in Tokmak at night . The Armed Forces of Ukraine is fighting saboteurs in Ukrainian uniform, but with Russian bulletproof vests.

During the fighting in Kharkiv, 15 Russian servicemen were eliminated and enemy equipment was destroyed.

In the morning, the aircraft of the Russian occupiers fired on Sartan.

The Russian military column was destroyed near Makarov in the Kyiv region.

As of 09:20 on February 28
Two people were killed in a shelling of the Saltivka housing estate in Kharkiv by Russian troops.

Russian troops struck a residential area in the city of Izyum, Kharkiv region.

As of 09:00 on February 28
Mariupol and Volnovakha remain hotspots in the Donetsk region. Fighting is taking place for these cities. In Sartan, one person was injured and 10 buildings were damaged.

Also in the morning it became known that on the night of February 28 in the city of Tokmak (Zaporozhye region) there were heavy fighting. During the confrontation in the village, the enemy suffered heavy casualties and has now retreated to the southern outskirts of Tokmak.

As of 08:00 on February 28
Kharkiv remains under the control of the Armed Forces . Our Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the enemy at night even before they had time to occupy their positions.

As of 07:00 on February 28
Berdyansk district is occupied . Enemy equipment is observed in various communities.

In Berdyansk, two people were injured during an operation to seize the city: one was killed and the other wounded. According to available information, the victims are security guards of the Berdyansk Harvesters enterprise.

As of 06:00 on February 28
The total estimated losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 28.02 are :

Planes - 29
helicopters - 29
Tanks - 191
Armored combat vehicles - 816
Cannon - 74
SAM BEECH - 1
City 21
Automotive equipment - 291
Tanks - 60
UAV OTR-3
Ships / boats - 2
Air Defense Means - 5
Personnel approximately 5300 (to be specified)

As of 06:00 on February 28
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian occupiers have reduced the pace of the offensive, but are still trying to develop success in some areas in the offensive against Ukraine. As of today, more than 5 columns of enemy equipment and enemy manpower have been destroyed by artillery fire from only one of the Ukrainian brigades.

As of 06:00 on February 28
In Chernihiv, the occupiers fired a shell at a five-story building in the center. Several apartments on the first and second floors burned down, a woman was injured.

The European Union has completely closed its airspace to Russia . And froze the assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

As of 05:00 on February 28
Zelensky told Johnson that the next 24 hours would be crucial for Ukraine.

The Central Election Commission of Belarus reports that Lukashenko has "won" the results of the referendum on changes to the Constitution : more than 65% are allegedly in favor.

As of 04:00 on February 28
A six-year-old child died in the shelling of the aggressor in Mariupol.

The occupiers burned in Ivankov a museum with works by Maria Pryimachenko.

As of 03:00 on February 28
Arahamiya promises that the talks will go either in the direction we need or "like a Russian warship."

Four shells were fired in Cherkasy region, - the head of the regional state administration.

In Russia - protests against the war, detained more than 2,700 people.

As of 02:00 on February 28
The occupiers want to use Kherson as a human shield to capture Ukrainian cities . To do this, they plan to simulate an "evacuation" - the regional state administration.

Gunsmiths from the Luch Design Bureau handed over the Scythian and Corsair armies , which were to be exported.

As of 01:00 on February 28
There is no threat to big cities, the occupier stopped movement in the Kiev direction , - OP.

The invasion killed 352 civilians, including 14 children - the Ministry of Health.

As of 00:00 on February 28
Negotiations will take place in the morning , in the Ukrainian delegation - Arahamiya.

The mayor of Kupyansk surrendered the city . He was charged with treason.

The enemy shells the airports in Zaporozhye and Nikolaev.

Ukrainians have completely destroyed the age-old myth of Russia's greatness - Kravchuk, Kuchma and Yushchenko.

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