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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:47 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas refused to guarantee that the country’s military would not be sent to Ukraine: “I do not make such promises, because circumstances may change... We have clearly chosen a side here, and this side is Ukraine, because Russia is for us direct threat."
19:49 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's attack on Krivoy Rog has increased to 49, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Sergei Lysak. Ten adults and seven children remain in medical institutions.
19:20 The Russians fired a mortar at the civilian infrastructure of the Velikopisarevsky community of the Akhtyrsky district of the Sumy region - one person was killed, two were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported.
19:06 EU ambassadors gave the green light to allocate 5 billion euros for the purchase of weapons to Ukraine, Brussels correspondent for Radio Liberty Rikard Jozwiak reported.
18:27 Oddly enough, Russians want to become Ukrainians - there is a frantic demand for Ukrainian passports in the Russian Federation. As counterfeit sellers promise, a “document” for thousands of dollars will help you move from Russia to Europe with all the benefits of Ukrainian refugee status. About what happens if you show European border guards a fake passport with a trident, see the article Why Russians Want to Become Ukrainians.
17:49 In Sumy, two people have already died as a result of a night Russian attack, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. While clearing the rubble of a five-story residential building, rescuers have already unblocked two dead bodies, and work continues.
17:08 Over the past two days, drone attacks in Russia have damaged facilities that account for 12% of the country's oil refining capacity, Bloomberg writes.
16:56 Pope Francis again spoke about the war in Ukraine: “Many young people are going to die... Let us pray to the Lord to give us the grace to overcome this madness of war, which always leads to defeat.”
15:45 In the Russian city of Taganrog, an A-50 aircraft was damaged as a result of a drone attack on March 9, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources in the special services. Information about the nature of the damage is currently being clarified.
15:37 The Ryazan oil refinery lost 70% of its capacity after a drone attack, writes Reuters. According to the publication, two of the four primary oil refining units AVT-4 and AT-6 were damaged at the plant. The Ryazan Refinery is the third in Russia in terms of processing volume with an indicator of 12.67 million tons per year.
15:33 Russian media write that Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov has probably been fired. According to journalists, Colonel General Viktor Poznikhir will temporarily serve as head of the General Staff.
14:56 About 120 billion euros a year should be enough for Ukraine to win the war, said Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defense Kusti Salm. In his opinion, part of this amount can be financed through Eurobonds, when the European Commission can raise funds on financial markets and use EU countries as guarantors. Salm emphasized that if more than 50 countries included in the Ramstein coalition spent 0.25% of their GDP on military assistance to Ukraine, this would amount to more than 120 billion euros per year.
14:12 Syrsky said that today he is working at the front - in two brigades, where the situation is gradually becoming more complicated and there is a threat of enemy units advancing into the depths of the Ukrainian battle formations. I decided to strengthen these units with reserves, ammunition and electronic warfare equipment.
The commander-in-chief also said that the operational situation on the Eastern Front remains difficult. The Russian Army continues its offensive, concentrating its main efforts in the areas of Ternov, Ivanovsky, Berdychi, Tonenky, Verbovoy and Rabotino. At the same time, probably due to heavy losses, enemy activity in other sectors of the front decreased noticeably. Syrsky emphasized that all settlements that the enemy tried to capture remained under the control of the Defense Forces.
13:47 The number of victims of a missile strike on an apartment building in Krivoy Rog has increased to five - the body of another victim was found under the rubble, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Sergei Lysak.
13:13 The Legion of Freedom of Russia, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion issued a joint statement in which they called on the residents of Kursk and Belgorod to immediately evacuate, since attacks on military positions would be carried out in these cities. This, as the volunteers explain, is necessary to minimize shelling of Ukrainian cities.
12:25 In the Rostov region, the Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery stopped work after a drone attack, said Governor Vasily Golubev. According to him, this morning the drone allegedly fell on the territory of the plant as a result of electronic warfare. No people were injured, “the enterprise’s technological facilities have been stopped, the consequences are being clarified,” Golubev noted.
12:18 Scholz, Macron and Tusk will meet in Berlin on Friday, March 15, to resolve differences over Ukraine, writes Politico.
11:59 National Security Adviser to the Czech Prime Minister Tomas Pojar predicts that supplies of ammunition to Ukraine may begin in June: “The promised money must arrive, and contracts must be concluded. When the contract is concluded, it will take several weeks to deliver them to Ukraine. Deliveries may begin in June."
11:36 The Pentagon has released the full contents of a new $300 million military aid package to Ukraine:
- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
- additional ammunition for HIMARS;
- 155 mm artillery shells, including high-explosive fragmentation and improved dual-use cluster munitions;
- 105 mm artillery shells;
- AT-4 anti-tank systems;
- cartridges for small arms;
- demolition munitions for clearing obstacles;
- spare parts, maintenance and other auxiliary equipment.
10:57 At night, SBU drones attacked three oil refineries in Russia at once, RBC-Ukraine reports, citing sources. These are factories in Ryazan, Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod region) and Kirishi (Leningrad region). The refineries attacked today are among the top 5 largest plants in Russia. In addition, the SBU, together with other representatives of the Defense Forces, attacked the Russian Air Force air base in Buturlinovka and a military airfield in Voronezh with drones.
10:51 In the morning, the Russian Federation fired an aircraft missile towards the Odessa region - air defense destroyed it over the sea, the Southern Defense Forces reported. They explained that in this way the enemy continues the tactics of targeted missile strikes, testing and reconnaissance of air defense systems.
10:35 As a result of the Russian strike on Mirnograd, Donetsk region, two people were killed and five were wounded, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin. In addition, over the previous 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were wounded in Selidovo, Pokrovsky district, two more in Zarechny, Limansky community, Kramatorsk district, and two more in Perezhny, Zvanovsky community, Bakhmut district.
09:56 The Legion of Freedom of Russia stated that there are street battles in the village of Tetkino, Kursk region, and the command post of the Russian troops has been destroyed.
09:19 Russian media write, citing emergency services, that the territory of the oil refinery in Ryazan was attacked by four drones, two oil processing units are on fire. Meanwhile, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reports an attack by two more drones, one of which crashed into an apartment building in Belgorod, the second allegedly fell into the river. Russian public pages, however, write that in Belgorod a drone attacked the FSB building - the facade was damaged and windows were broken. Preliminarily, there were no casualties.
09:13 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 13:
- personnel - about 426,870 (+980) people,
- tanks - 6752 (+5),
- armored combat vehicles - 12,921 (+20),
- artillery systems - 10,554 (+32),
- MLRS - 1017 (+1),
- air defense systems - 715 (+2),
- aircraft - 347 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 8205 (+22),
- cruise missiles - 1919 (+1),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 13,932 (+62),
- special equipment - 1699 (+8).
09:07 Over the past 24 hours, 91 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, the enemy tried 26 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region. Another 26 enemy attacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Berdychi, Orlovka, Tonenkoye, Pervomaiskoye, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled four attacks in the Sinkovka and Tabaevka areas of the Kharkov region; in Limansky - seven attacks in the areas of Belogorivka, Luhansk region and Ternov, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky - seven attacks in areas east of Chasov Yar, Ivanovsky, Andreevka and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - 12 attacks in the areas of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, west of Verbovoy and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - three attacks.
08:51 At night, the Russians hit a five-story residential building in Sumy with a drone, OVA reported. As a result of the hit, according to preliminary information, 30 apartments were damaged, 15 of them were destroyed. Eight victims are known, there are also deaths, the information is being clarified. Rescue operations continue.
08:42 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that during the night and morning of March 13, air defense systems allegedly destroyed 58 drones: 11 over the Belgorod region, eight over the Bryansk region, 29 over the Voronezh region, eight over the Kursk region and one each over the Ryazan and Leningrad regions.
08:24 Late in the evening, the Russians hit Mirnograd in the Donetsk region with a rocket, a five-story building was partially destroyed. Two people were killed and four were injured, said Interior Minister Igor Klimenko.
07:40 Putin, in an interview with Russian propaganda media, said that Russia is supposedly ready for negotiations on Ukraine, “but they should be based on reality, and not on wishful thinking.” According to him, the negotiations “are not a pause for the rearmament of Kyiv, but a serious conversation with security guarantees for Russia.”
Putin also said that Russia, from a military-technical point of view, is ready for a nuclear war, but it is unlikely that “everything is rushing so head-on.” According to him, the United States is developing nuclear forces, “but this does not mean that they are ready to start a nuclear war tomorrow.” At the same time, the head of the Kremlin threatened to conduct nuclear tests if the United States did so. Putin noted that during the war in Ukraine there was no reason to use nuclear weapons, but this would be done “in the event of a threat to the existence of the state.”
07:38 The death toll as a result of yesterday's attack on Krivoy Rog has increased to four, 43 people were injured, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Sergei Lysak. Among the victims are 12 children. 20 victims remain in medical facilities, four adults and two children in serious condition. In the city, about 20 high-rise buildings, two kindergartens and two schools, an enterprise, an administrative building, a store, and a warehouse were damaged.
07:29 At an oil refinery in Ryazan, an installation is on fire after a drone attack, two people were injured, Governor Pavel Malkov said. In turn, the governor of the Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev, said that air defense systems allegedly detected and destroyed more than 30 drones in the region overnight. The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, also reported about the drone attack. In the region, residents of the villages of Krugloye and Zalomnoye were left without electricity.
00:13 Syrsky said that, together with Umerov, he had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. They talked about the situation at the front, discussed preparations for the next meeting in the Ramstein format, the medium-term and urgent needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ammunition and air defense remain key priorities.
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