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2024-03-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: February 29, 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] 22:21 Scholz said that he does not want to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine because they can hit targets in Moscow: “The Taurus has a range of 500 km, and if it is used incorrectly, it can hit a target somewhere in Moscow.” The Chancellor noted that in order to ensure control over the use of Taurus missiles, it would be necessary to send German military personnel to Ukraine, but this is excluded.
22:19 The United States is not seeing any signs that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons, State Department Speaker Matthew Miller said: “This is not the first time we have heard irresponsible rhetoric from Vladimir Putin. This is not the way the leader of a nuclear state should speak. We have communicated in the past, privately and directly with Russia about the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons."
21:44 Special operations forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the death of military personnel of the 73rd Naval Special Operations Center. The dead tried to land on the Tendra spit in the Kherson region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces did not disclose details; there are no official data on the number of deaths. Everything that is known about this is in the material The Battle of the Spit .
21:22 Several defense lines with a length of about 1000 km have been created around Kiev, the head of the KGVA Sergei Popko said in an interview with TSN: “The first line of Kiev is located quite far from the capital. Reliable systems for fire destruction of the enemy, engineering barriers of all types, anti-aircraft and anti-tank defense have been built, comprehensive provision." At the same time, most of the information on the defense of Kyiv from the northern direction is not disclosed.
21:13 The Russian army launched an airstrike, probably using FAB-250, on the village of Shcherbinovtsy, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region. A private house was completely destroyed, three people were injured. At least 10 neighboring homes were also damaged, prosecutors said.
20:52 The Russian corporation Rostec intends to resume production of the A-50 long-range radar detection and control aircraft. The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said that such aircraft are needed by the Russian armed forces and “are excellent for export.”
20:46 By his decree, Zelensky replaced the commander of the Logistics Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Vladimir Karpenko became the new commander.
19:38 If Ukraine is defeated, NATO will have to “go to war with Russia,” said Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. He called the advance of Russian troops “very alarming” and warned that without renewed American aid, Ukraine will continue to be at a disadvantage.
19:35 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a meeting today on relations with the European Union: “This year should be the time for real negotiations on accession: we can start in the spring, take the first negotiating steps.”
19:01 Macron called all his words about the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine “balanced”: “These are quite serious issues. Every word I say on this matter is weighed, considered and measured.”
18:28 Russians in Krynki are prohibited from using armored vehicles, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, the Defense Forces on the left bank of the Dnieper continue to hold the bridgehead and are carrying out combat work to expand it and consolidate positions. “The Russians continue to save armored vehicles. They have a commander’s embargo, that is, a ban on using armored vehicles in assault operations,” Gumenyuk added. She also noted that due to the downing of Russian planes, the enemy is now limited in the use of guided bombs.
17:51 France, Germany and the European Central Bank are the main opponents of the confiscation of frozen Russian assets, Bloomberg writes, citing sources. They are concerned about Moscow's retaliatory measures against European assets in the Russian Federation, the impact on financial stability and the status of the euro as a reserve currency. Leading EU countries believe such a move would set a precedent, forcing other countries to avoid holding their reserves in Western currencies.
17:30 The ministers of defense and foreign affairs of European countries will soon hold a meeting in Paris to discuss, in particular, specific measures to provide assistance to Ukraine, the French Foreign Ministry reported. The ministers will also discuss ways to protect countries where Russia is trying to destabilize the situation, in particular Moldova.
17:14 One of the coast guard boats of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation was on fire in the Sea of Azov. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the fire engulfed the wheelhouse of the Russian ship, and the enemy suffered five casualties. The boat crew urgently requested an evacuation group. The causes of the fire, as well as the nature of the enemy's losses, are being clarified.
17:03 The Ukrainian IT Army attacked the largest Internet portal in Russia Mail.gu, the Ministry of Digital Development reported. All users located outside the territory of the Russian Federation, and some internal ones, have lost access to their accounts, and therefore the ability to recover passwords, undergo two-factor verification, and access to devices.
16:56 Putin addressed the Federal Assembly with his traditional rhetoric. He threatened the West and talked about “invading heroes.” The main points of his speech are in the material Putin's New Nonsense .
16:42 OSCE member states have initiated the use of the so-called Moscow Mechanism to investigate Russia’s detention of Ukrainian civilians, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said.
16:39 The joint investigation team for the investigation of serious international crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine has extended its work for another two years, the head of Eurojust Ladislav Hamran said during a briefing in Kiev. "This joint investigation team is the largest international effort to document war crimes in history. Never before has an investigation team been created that has actually documented war crimes during a war," he said. The group includes Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia and Romania.
16:37 The Ministry of Defense showed the work of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for February. In a month, they managed to shoot down ten Su-34 fighter-bombers, two Su-35 multi-role fighters and one A-50 radar aircraft.
16:03 Ukraine managed to return five more children from the occupied territories, said the head of the Kherson OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
15:56 The European Parliament adopted a resolution in support of Ukraine. In it, MEPs call on EU countries to provide Ukraine with ammunition, air defense systems, long-range missiles, artillery, as well as drones and weapons to counter them. In addition, deputies ask EU countries to confiscate Russian assets and transfer them to the restoration of Ukraine, as well as tighten sanctions against the Russian Federation and Belarus.
15:52 The Russians launched an artillery strike on the production infrastructure in the Vorozhbyansk community of the Sumy region. One person was injured, and a fire broke out in the warehouse of a manufacturing plant, the OVA reported.
15:50 Russia is buying up Ukrainian telegram channels and bribing influential Ukrainians “in dozens” to organize the special operation “Maidan-3,” said GUR representative Andrey Yusov. According to him, intelligence knows the lists of these recruits: “I can’t name specific names right now. There are lists of people the enemy is working with, and the task is to attract them to spread their rhetoric and influence the socio-political situation in the country. These are dozens of people ", if we are talking about influential categories. Now their task is to purchase thousands of pages and accounts as much as possible. This will be the work of bot farms, newly created or already purchased telegram channels."
15:38 Lithuania reported the first suspicions for international war crimes committed in Ukraine. We are talking about the murder of the famous Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius on April 2, 2022 in Mariupol, said Lithuanian Prosecutor General Nida Grunskienė.
15:11 The absence of A-50 radar aircraft in the sky significantly helps Ukrainian troops shoot down Russian fighters, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. According to him, without these aircraft, the enemy receives less information about Ukrainian radar stations and air defense systems.
14:48 In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops are advancing towards Chasov Yar and trying to capture the villages of Ivanovskoye and Bogdanovka. Fighting is already going on there, said Ilya Yevlash, spokesman for the Khortitsa military group. According to him, the enemy is actively using assault groups, special forces and bringing up reserves.
14:36 As a result of the Russian strike on the front-line village of Yulyevka, Zaporozhye region, one person was killed, information about the wounded and damage is being clarified, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
He also said that the duration of the curfew in the city of Zaporozhye and the region has been reduced: now it will be in effect from 00:00 to 05:00. According to Fedorov, “the security situation allows this to be done.”
13:53 The Danish government announced that it has allocated an additional grant of 10 million Danish kroner (about $1.45 million) for the restoration of Ukraine. The funds will go towards cooperation between the municipalities of Aarhus and Copenhagen and the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Kyiv and Nikolaev.
13:10 Syrsky said that he continues to work in the military units that hold the defense in the Avdeevsky and Kurakhovsky directions: “My main task is to effectively use the combat capabilities of the weapons and military equipment of our units to inflict maximum losses on the enemy and destroy a significant part of their artillery and armored vehicles ; hold our positions and restore the situation where we retreated."
According to the commander-in-chief, when working with brigade commanders, he focuses on how work is organized at control points to engage the enemy by fire, on the timeliness and adequacy of decisions made in accordance with the current situation, and on maintaining constant interaction between units and subunits.
12:56 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that Western leaders should not rule out the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine: “I think that these are also signals that we are sending to Russia that we are not ruling out different things. Because all countries have realized that we We must do everything so that Ukraine wins and Russia loses this war."
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis also said that “nothing should be taken off the table, no option should be rejected out of hand.”
12:50 President of Poland Andrzej Duda does not believe in a Russian attack on NATO countries: “I don’t believe in this because I believe that we will prepare. Of course, this is all on the condition that we are strong. The strong are not attacked. They are attacked weak. Those who can be easily defeated. I think that if Putin knew what awaited him and his army in Ukraine, he would not have attacked Ukraine."
12:34 Since the capture of Avdiivka on February 17, the Russians have advanced approximately 6 km from the city center, British intelligence reported. The territory west of Avdeevka remains the center of the Russian army's offensive. Russia has "almost certainly" taken control of several villages in the area - Lastochkino, Stepnoye and Severnoye, intelligence notes. These tactical achievements, according to analysts, serve primarily to consolidate Russian positions around Avdievka.
11:56 Putin, in his message to the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, confirmed the use of Zircon missiles against Ukraine: “The Zircon sea-based hypersonic strike missile system has already been used in battle, which was not even discussed in the 2018 message. But this complex is already in service.” He also promised to “soon demonstrate” the Sarmat complex, which, according to him, has already been delivered to the troops. At the same time, Putin accused the West of “trying to drag Russia into an arms race, to repeat the trick as with the USSR in the 1980s.”
Commenting on the possibility of sending Western troops to Ukraine, Putin recalled previous wars of Western countries against Russia. But now, he said, “the consequences for any possible interventionists will be much more tragic. We also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory.” The head of the Kremlin added that this “really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and therefore the destruction of civilization.” He also called reports that Russia is preparing to attack Europe “nonsense.”
11:44 Today, at about 9:00, two more Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers were destroyed in the Avdeevsky and Mariupol directions , said commander Nikolai Oleshchuk.
11:41 Spring weather can change the situation at the front, slowing down the movement of heavy equipment, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Ilya Yevlash: “This time can be won and used in our favor, since it will be quite difficult for the enemy to conduct offensive operations with the use of heavy equipment for a certain period of time , tanks, armored fighting vehicles." He added that Ukrainian troops can use this time to further equip their fortifications, since the Defense Forces are now on strategic defense.
11:09 The Air Raid app has been updated in Ukraine . According to Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat, this version allows us to obtain additional information about the threat. In particular, the application will notify you when a particular enemy target will enter Ukrainian airspace, as well as about the danger in the region where the user is located.
10:32 In the morning, the Russians fired at the Daryevsk community of the Kherson region, one person was killed in the village of Ponyatovka. In addition, in the evening, Russian troops struck the Dnieper district of Kherson. A shell hit an apartment building, one person was wounded. Over the previous 24 hours, one person was killed and two were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region, the OVA reported.
09:48 Argentine President Javier Miley said that he plans to hold a “latin American support summit” for Ukraine at the end of the year.
09:14 Budanov, in an interview with the Canadian edition of CBC, confirmed the leak of data about the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer of 2023: “We had information, evidence that the Russian Federation became aware of the plans. This is a serious problem, and we are taking some measures.”
08:59 Syrsky reported that he visited the units that hold the defense in the Avdeevsky direction. According to him, during his work, certain commanders “were identified with certain miscalculations in their control of the situation and assessment of the enemy, which directly affected the stability of the defense in certain directions.” The commander-in-chief noted that he had taken “all measures to correct the situation on the spot, with the allocation of additional resources of ammunition and materiel, as well as the necessary reserves.”
A particularly tense situation has developed in the Avdeevsky and Zaporozhye directions, Syrsky noted. Russian assault units are trying to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops and capture Tonenkoye, Orlovka, Semenovka, Berdychi, Krasnogorovka. There are fierce battles in the Verbovoy and Rabotino areas, over which the enemy is trying to regain control. Syrsky also reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces knocked out the enemy, who had broken through to the outskirts of Orlovka.
08:45 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 29:
- personnel - about 413,760 (+1150) people,
- tanks - 6593 (+23),
- armored combat vehicles - 12,552 (+44),
- artillery systems - 10,070 (+41),
- MLRS - 1000 (+0),
- air defense systems - 690 (+2),
- aircraft - 342 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7768 (+15),
- cruise missiles - 1912 (+0),
- ships/boats - 25 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 13,152 (+40),
- special equipment - 1601 (+7).
08:32 Over the past 24 hours, 99 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, in the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried 38 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka and Urozhainy, Donetsk region. Another 25 attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction - in the Berdychi, Orlovka, Tonenky, Pervomaisky, Nevelsky districts of the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled two enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Tabaevka areas of the Kharkov region; in Limansky - 12 attacks in the areas of Ternov, Yampolevka of the Donetsk region and Belogorivka of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - nine attacks in the Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - one attack in the area east of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces hold their positions and repelled four assaults by Russian troops on the left bank of the Dnieper.
08:17 The General Staff confirmed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a missile strike on a concentration of Russian troops in Yelenovka, Donetsk region, using Ukrainian multiple launch rocket systems. According to preliminary data, 19 Russian soldiers were killed as a result of the strike, including the deputy commander of a military unit, and another 12 people were wounded, including the commander of this unit.
08:02 The air force shot down another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber in the Eastern direction , said commander Nikolai Oleshchuk.
07:20 New Zealand announced a new package of sanctions against Russia. The restrictions include the introduction of G7+ price limits for oil of Russian origin and a ban on the export of certain goods to Russia and Belarus through third countries. Sanctions are also being imposed against another 61 Russian individuals and legal entities, including those involved in sanctions evasion. These are organizations that purchase technology for the Russian defense industry, and senior executives of some Russian banks. Persons involved in the purchase of weapons from North Korea were also sanctioned.
01:14 Soldiers of the 73rd Naval Special Operations Center were killed while carrying out a combat mission in a clash with Russian troops, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces reported. They ensured the withdrawal of the main forces of the group after completing a special task.
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