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2024-02-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: February 27, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:36 Since the end of November 2023, the number of executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war by the Russian military has increased significantly, said Yuriy Belousov, a representative of the Office of the Prosecutor General. According to him, as of now, the prosecutor's office is investigating 19 cases of murder of 45 Ukrainian prisoners of war. These are only the numbers that are known to law enforcement.
“We see a growing trend in these cases starting from the end of November 2023. And already this year it’s just massive. These are mainly Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions. For us, this is evidence that there have been changes in policy, and this is clearly initiated by the top leadership of the Armed Forces RF. Because there can’t just be cases in such numbers,” Belousov noted. He also believes that the dissemination of videos of executions on social networks is aimed at psychological influence: “This is an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians so that they do not resist.”
22:27 The Russians fired from cannon artillery at a private enterprise in the Kurakhovskaya community of the Donetsk region - one person was killed, five were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported.
22:08 The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War will now deal with prisoners of war, civilians in Russian captivity, and those missing in action during the war or occupation. The headquarters will also have an information system with data on these categories of people. This will improve electronic interaction between the headquarters and the authorities, which should simplify the work on the return of Ukrainians, said Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets.
22:03 The 110th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which defended Avdiivka, reported that its fighters had left the Avdiivka direction to recover: “We are going out for rest. We are going out with our heads held high. After two years of confrontation, there is finally a rotation. We will be recruited strength to beat the enemy again."
21:46 For the first time, the West began to publicly discuss sending its troops to Ukraine, although a number of European countries have already denied such a possibility. Read more in the material New debate in the West.
21:14 Biden met with congressional leaders about financing Ukraine. House Speaker Mike Johnson called the meeting "frank and honest" while emphasizing the need for a plan on the US border. Biden warned during the meeting about the cost of delaying Ukraine's help. “The consequences of daily inaction are dire,” the American president said.
20:57 Biden “made it clear that the United States will not send troops to fight in Ukraine,” said White House National Security Council Speaker Adrienne Watson.
19:10 French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejournet said that troops from Western countries, if theoretically sent to Ukraine, will not participate in hostilities. In his opinion, France “should consider new actions in support of Ukraine.”
18:23 After the summit in Prague, the prime ministers of the Visegrad Four countries publicly expressed different views on the war in Ukraine. In particular, the Czech Republic and Poland are in favor of providing military assistance to Ukraine, while Hungary and Slovakia are against this, but are ready to help Ukraine in another way - humanitarian or financial.
At the same time, both Orban and Fico agreed that the Russian invasion was a violation of international law and that Ukraine needed help. Orban also called for speedy peace talks - "the sooner the better." In turn, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala emphasized that he does not believe in pacifist solutions and that long-term peace can be achieved by yielding to the aggressor. Fico said that he recognizes and respects the independence of Ukraine, but, in his opinion, both Ukraine and Russia need security guarantees.
Orban also noted that for Hungary it is “national interest and the most important issue of national security” not to have a common border with Russia, because there are “bad memories” of such periods in history.
17:36 The Russians shelled the village of Veletenskoye, Kherson region - one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
17:02 In the Sumy region, as a result of repeated enemy shelling, six policemen were wounded, and not four, as previously reported, the National Police clarified. Two law enforcement officers died.
16:48 With the withdrawal from Avdeevka of the Donetsk region, the problems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front did not end. The occupiers went on the offensive along the entire front line; it is on their side that the initiative is now on their side. Analysts say this means the Russians can now choose when and where to launch offensive operations while they hold the initiative. For more details, see the material Offensive along the entire front line.
16:30 The Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine warns that the Russian special operation "Maidan-3" will reach its culmination in March-May of this year, and in the coming weeks the Russian Federation will devote maximum efforts to disseminating its narratives and attempts to incite conflicts - both within Ukraine, as well as in other parts of the world where there is effective support for Ukraine. The Russians' goal is to reduce support for Ukraine and demoralize Ukrainians.
“The campaign methodology is traditional for the Russian special services: to question the legitimacy of government decisions taken in Ukraine after May 20, to spread panic and despondency, to artificially contrast civilians and military personnel, to quarrel us with our allies, to spread all sorts of conspiracy theories in society. This is happening against the backdrop of public statements of the Russian Federation on the creation of new types of superweapons," the Committee said in a statement.
According to the Committee, the total budget of the Maidan-3 operation amounted to $1.5 billion. Last November alone, Russia spent almost $250 million as part of a special operation to spread anti-Ukrainian sentiments on the Telegram platform alone. This is the most expensive operation of the Russian special services in history.
According to Moscow’s plan, in the first half of June the situation inside Ukraine will be shaken, after which defeat will be inflicted in the East. The Committee calls on Ukrainian society and international partners to “strengthen joint resistance and comprehensive security measures, especially in the information space, to effectively counter global threats and challenges of a new world hybrid war.”
16:19 Ukrainian troops have retreated from the villages of Stepnoe and Severnoe near Avdeevka, said Dmitry Likhovy, spokesman for the Tavria group of troops. According to him, the battles for the North continued until night yesterday, the Russians suffered significant losses.
16:16 The air force shot down the second Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber today in the Eastern direction, said commander Nikolai Oleshchuk.
16:12 In the Avdeevsky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have stabilized the defense line in the areas of Tonenky, Orlovka and Berdychi, commander Tarnavsky said. He also assured that the attempts of offensive actions by the Russians in the Novomikhailovka and Rabotino areas were unsuccessful.
15:45 Zelensky said that he arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman al Saud. “Theme number one is the Peace Formula. Last year in Jeddah we held a productive meeting at the level of advisers on its implementation. Now we are close to holding the first Peace Summit and we count on continued active support from Saudi Arabia,” the president said. The return of prisoners and deportees, economic cooperation and Saudi Arabia's participation in the reconstruction of Ukraine will also be discussed.
15:34 On the morning of February 27 in Novaya Kakhovka, explosions occurred at the entrance to the office of the United Russia party and not far from the “polling station.” According to the Center for National Resistance under the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the explosions were carried out by partisans, thus stopping the “election process” in the occupied city. At the same time, the Russians, in order to hide the fact of the presence of resistance forces and not to sow panic, announced an alleged UAV attack.
15:26 In the Sumy region, two policemen were killed and four were wounded as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko. The investigative team went to document the consequences of enemy strikes on the farm building, and at this time the Russians struck again, targeting law enforcement officers with artillery.
14:45 Macron voiced the proposal to send NATO troops to Ukraine at yesterday’s meeting of Western leaders in Paris, but no one supported it, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
14:23 Speaker of the General Staff Andrei Kovalev, in a commentary to Ukrainskaya Pravda, explained that the published losses of Russians in more than 400 thousand military personnel are killed and wounded. At the same time, he emphasized that 412 thousand as of February 27 is an approximate number.
14:18 Scholz spoke out against sending NATO troops to Ukraine: “There will be neither ground forces nor soldiers on Ukrainian soil who will be sent there by European states or NATO countries.” Poland and Sweden also opposed this idea, and the British government stated that London does not plan a large-scale deployment of troops on the territory of Ukraine.
13:57 The European Parliament approved the allocation of a macro-financial support package for Ukraine in the amount of 50 billion euros for four years.
13:22 Macron called the EU's promise to allocate a million ammunition to Ukraine "reckless": "It must be said that we did not have this million ammunition. This was undoubtedly a reckless commitment. The reality is that in the very short term you can only provide that amount of ammunition the ones you have in stock, or the ones you produce just in time."
13:01 At night, the Russians shelled the Shumen microdistrict and the central part of Kherson. Apartment buildings and an office building were hit, one person was injured, the OVA reported. Over the previous 24 hours, three people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
12:35 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the Alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine.
12:18 Danish Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen said Europe must avoid the mistakes of the 1930s and expand its defense industry to contain Russia: “I see a more aggressive Russia in all aspects, not just in Ukraine. And I think we have to ask themselves: Is Ukraine the final destination for Russia? Or is this just part of what they want to achieve by building a Greater Russia again?"
12:12 Peskov said that the Kremlin “paid attention” to Macron’s words that the topic of sending military personnel to Ukraine was discussed in Europe. According to him, if this happens, then “we will have to talk not about the likelihood, but about the inevitability of a direct clash between Russia and NATO.”
11:23 North Korea is accelerating the pace of arms supplies to Russia, Bloomberg writes. According to South Korea, the DPRK sent about 6,700 containers to the Russian Federation, which can hold about 3 million 152 mm shells. In return, Moscow provides Pyongyang with food, raw materials and parts used in the production of weapons.
11:06 The air force shot down another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber in the Eastern direction, said commander Nikolai Oleshchuk.
10:38 Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat said that this is not the first time Russian drones have flown through the territory of Moldova: “This has happened already, and more than once. I don’t even see any particular sensationalism in this news that they are flying through Moldova or Transnistria, a Russian enclave, and cruise missiles and suicide bombers. Well, this time the radar systems detected such a flight.”
10:03 Russia purchased critical components for the military-industrial complex from the European Union worth about $500 million in the first nine months of 2023 alone, Bloomberg writes. A quarter of the supplies were sent directly from Europe, the rest through intermediaries in third countries. We are talking about dozens of components, parts and electronics used in the missile industry and other high-tech military production.
The EU has noticed a sharp increase in the export of such technologies to countries that resell them to Russia. Including Turkey, UAE, Serbia, China, Central Asian countries and Armenia. Increased exports to these countries fully compensated for the reduction in direct sales to Moscow, Bloomberg notes.
09:35 At night, the remains of a downed UAV damaged a power line in the Lubensky district of the Poltava region - 208 household and four legal consumers were left without electricity, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin.
09:24 During the night attack, the Air Force reported that unidentified UAVs were heading from the border with Moldova in the direction of Khmelnitsky. Later, the Ministry of Defense of Moldova stated that Russian drones did not fly over the territory of the country. The Southern Defense Forces explained that the Russians provocatively directed the route of one of the drones along a trajectory crossing the Ukrainian-Moldavian section of the state border in the Odessa region. The drone flew several tens of kilometers over the territory of Moldova and again entered Ukrainian airspace, where it was destroyed by air defense forces.
09:13 The “authorities” of occupied Novaya Kakhovka stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly struck a “humanitarian headquarters and multifunctional center” with a drone, and there were no casualties.
08:57 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that Russian troops have regained the strategic initiative throughout the theater of operations. According to experts, the Russian Federation will be able to conduct offensive operations whenever and wherever it wants as long as it maintains the initiative. Meanwhile, DeepState analysts report that Russian troops are advancing to the west and northwest of Avdeevka, following Lastochkino they captured the villages of Stepnoye and Severnoye.
08:29 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 27:
- personnel - about 411,550 (+850) people,
- tanks - 6556 (+1),
- armored combat vehicles - 12,494 (+16),
- artillery systems - 1009 (+16),
- MLRS - 1000 (+0),
- air defense systems - 686 (+0),
- aircraft - 340 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7729 (+22),
- cruise missiles - 1912 (+2),
- ships/boats - 25 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 13,065 (+28),
- special equipment - 1588 (+8).
08:11 Air defense at night destroyed 11 of the 13 Shahed-type attack drones that Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and the Kursk region, the Air Force command reported. Two of the four Kh-59 guided missiles were also destroyed. In addition, the enemy used Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and one Kh-31P anti-radar missile. Missiles and drones were destroyed within the Kharkov, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk, Khmelnytsky and Kirovograd regions.
07:45 Over the past 24 hours, 96 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, in the Maryinsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 25 enemy attacks in the Novomikhailovka area of the Donetsk region, as well as eight attacks in the Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Pobeda areas of the Donetsk region. Another 19 attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction - in the Berdychi, Orlovka, Severny, Pervomaisky, Nevelsky districts of the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian troops repelled two attacks in the areas of Ivanovka and Tabaevka and another 20 attacks in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkov region. In the Liman direction, six attacks were repelled in the Ternov area of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - nine attacks in the Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - six attacks in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces hold their positions and repelled two assaults by Russian troops on the left bank of the Dnieper.
03:10 NATO countries disagree on the possible sending of their military to Ukraine, “there are absolutely no such decisions,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis also claims that there is no question of sending European NATO forces to Ukraine. In turn, Macron confirmed that consensus has not yet been reached, but, in his words, “nothing can be ruled out.”
Macron also announced the creation of a new coalition on long-range weapons for Ukraine. According to the French president, France is not negotiating with Ukraine about Mirage fighters, but is involved in pilot training.
02:26 Israel is working on transferring early warning systems for missile strikes and drone attacks to Ukraine, Israel's permanent representative to the UN Gilad Erdan said during a meeting of the UN General Assembly. He also recalled that in the first week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, the country sent over 100 tons of humanitarian equipment to Ukraine and that “hundreds of Ukrainians were treated in Israeli hospitals and rehabilitation centers.”
01:17 The Netherlands will allocate more than 100 million euros to the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine around the world, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. At the same time, he expressed the hope that “other countries will follow the Netherlands.” Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, in turn, said that about 15 countries have expressed interest in the initiative to search for artillery shells for Ukraine on world markets.
00:13 France will supply 250 thousand attack UAVs for the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the end of 2024, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said. According to him, the drones will be equipped with area fragmentation explosive devices and artificial intelligence. “They are autonomous, they find targets themselves, identify them, and then carry out an aerial detonation,” the minister added.
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