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| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Korrespondent] 23:06 Ukraine, together with partners, is developing a mechanism for reparations, which will have four elements, Shmygal said: an international register of losses; compensation commission, which will consider claims for damages; the compensation fund from which the reimbursement will come; mechanism for the execution of decisions taken by the Compensation Commission. According to the prime minister, the confiscated Russian assets can be used to rebuild Ukraine after the war. 23:00 Prosecutors General of the countries belonging to the Joint Investigation Group signed an agreement on the establishment in The Hague of the International Center for the Investigation of Crimes of Aggression of Russia, which will start operating in the summer of 2023. The document was endorsed after the coordinating meeting of the JIT prosecutors, which took place during the international conference in Lviv, said Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin. 22:09 The prosecutor's office is investigating 171 cases of sexual violence against Ukrainians by the Russian military, Olena Zelenska said during a panel discussion at a conference in Lviv: "Behind this figure, there are not only women - there are 39 men among the victims, 13 are minors, among them - a boy. We know about these cases only because these people found the strength to speak. How much they suffer in silence, especially in the occupied territories, we do not know." "This is their conscious psychological and physical weapon against the Ukrainians," the first lady emphasized. 21:35 Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins is confident that Western partners will start deliveries of fighter jets to Ukraine, and it's only a matter of time: "If we had fighter jets, we would also give them away. The supply of combat aircraft is only a matter of time. I don't I see reasons why the West should not supply fighters. If Ukrainians need fighters, they should get them." 20:46 Ukraine is finishing the heating season with a surplus of power and with sufficient reserves of gas and coal, Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said. According to him, since October last year, Russia has carried out 31 air attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, of which 14 were massive missile strikes and 17 were attacks by groups of kamikaze drones. However, the Ukrainian power engineers managed to keep the energy system intact, "the collapse that the enemy so hoped for did not happen." 20:08 Russians this afternoon hit with an Iskander-K missile at one of the territorial communities of the Zaporozhye region. The blast wave and debris damaged the facades, windows and roofs of neighboring houses, there were no casualties, the regional prosecutor's office said. 19:36 The German concern Rheinmetall wants to buy 96 Leopard 1 tanks from the Swiss defense company Ruag to be sent to Ukraine, Tages-Anzeiger reports. According to a Ruag representative, the Rheinmetall concern expressed a desire to buy combat vehicles and made it clear that they would be delivered to Ukraine after repairs. The Ruag representative discussed this issue with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, but was refused. 18:15 The Russians shelled the village of Lvovo in the Tyaginsky community of the Kherson region, one person died, the OVA reported. 18:13 The Dutch prosecutor's office has opened 45 criminal investigations against companies and individuals suspected of circumventing sanctions against Russia, RTL News reports. Of the 45 criminal investigations, 29 are related to violations of import and export regulations, the rest are related to violations of financial sanctions. 18:11 In Zaporozhye, during the analysis of rubble in a five-story residential building hit by a Russian missile on March 2, they took out the body of another deceased, the State Emergency Service reported. In total, the bodies of 11 dead have now been released, of which one is a child. 18:08 For the first time since January, the movement of vehicles in large columns has resumed in Mariupol. So, in the morning, 28 military vehicles drove in the direction of Mangush-Berdyansk, accompanied by six civilian cars, most of them are manpower, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. During the day, the movement of at least 16 tanks, more than 20 trucks with ammunition and manpower was also recorded. Among the tanks that drove through Mariupol today, new T80s, 72 modifications of 2020, were noticed. 17:57 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he was in touch with the commanders in the morning: "The front is the first priority. I will especially note the soldiers defending Bakhmut. In particular, the soldiers of the 56th separate motorized infantry brigade, the 67th and 93rd mechanized brigades and the 77th separate airmobile brigade". 16:59 Ukraine will receive from the UK twice as many Challenger 2 tanks as promised, Ukrainian Ambassador to London Vadym Prystaiko said in an interview with Radio Liberty. According to him, Ukraine requested 14 Challenger 2 tanks from Britain, but after Zelensky's visit, it turned out that their number would double. 16:33 Energoatom published an infographic of Russian strikes on Ukrainian electric power facilities during the year. Most of the strikes on the energy system were inflicted in October 2022. 16:21 Work on anti-Russian sanctions should continue until "enough has been done," MEP Roberta Metsola said at a briefing in Lviv: "We have done unprecedented work, adopted many packages, but there are still gaps that are being abused. We can still move on. The sanctions are working." According to her, the next sanctions against the Russian Federation should concern, in particular, Russian diamonds and members of the State Duma close to Putin, as well as Russian companies that are still present on the European market. 16:08 The Chief of Defense Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces, Wayne Eyre, arrived in Ukraine, Zaluzhny said: "We had a frank conversation. I informed my colleague in detail about the operational situation at the front. He paid special attention to the Eastern direction. We discussed the supply of military assistance - weapons and ammunition." 15:29 Russia has sharply increased imports of chips from Turkey and the UAE after the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, writes Bloomberg, citing a senior European diplomat. According to the source, Russian imports have largely returned to pre-war 2020 levels. An analysis of trade data suggests that modern chips and integrated circuits produced in the EU and other countries are supplied to Russia through countries such as Turkey, Kazakhstan, and the United Arab Emirates. Such goods can be used for both peaceful and military purposes. The diplomat noted that deliveries from China to Russia also increased. 14:32 Bakhmut remains a priority target for Russia, but the experience of the Armed Forces of Ukraine allows us to rebuild the defense and continue to resist, even if this requires destroying infrastructure, such as bridges, said Sergei Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces. According to Cherevaty, the generals' trips to Bakhmut in recent days are a clear marker that Ukrainian forces will fight for every inch of their land. He stressed that the situation around Bakhmut is difficult, but controlled. Earlier this week, Bakhmut was visited twice by the commander of the Eastern Group of Forces Alexander Syrsky, as well as the commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Khorenko. 13:55 In the morning, the Russians hit the Nikopol region several times from heavy artillery and MLRS. In the Krasnogrigoryevsk community, two people died, residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged. A hotel in Nikopol was damaged, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak. 13:17 Saudi Arabia has sent three planes of humanitarian aid to Ukraine as part of the previously announced $100 million program, the Office of the President said. The cargo contains, in particular, 135 powerful generators, warm blankets, hygiene products. They will be distributed across six regions to respond to the urgent needs of thousands of people. 12:23 Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russia has lost more than 200 thousand of its soldiers in Ukraine, more than 1800 officers were killed or wounded. The Russian Federation also lost more than 2,000 main battle tanks, said Christopher Cavoli, Commander-in-Chief of NATO Allied Forces in Europe. He also said that the Russian army produces more than 23 thousand artillery shells per day. 11:25 Zelensky met with the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola in Lviv. "Ukraine seeks to complete the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission as soon as possible and start negotiations on joining the EU this year," the President stressed. 10:36 In the Belgorod region on the morning of March 3, a drone attacked a substation of the Transneft-Druzhba oil pipeline, the Baza telegram channel reports. According to preliminary data from the source, the drone arrived from Ukraine and was equipped with an improvised explosive device. The blow fell on an empty tank. Four people were evacuated from the scene of the incident, no one was injured. 10:20 British intelligence reports that Ukraine has deployed its elite units to Bakhmut. Analysts say the Ukrainian-held salient has proven vulnerable to Russian attacks from three directions as the Wagnerites and the regular army push further into the northern outskirts of the city. At the same time, supply routes for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city are becoming more and more limited. In the past 36 hours, two key bridges in Bakhmut have been destroyed, including a vital bridge connecting the city to the last main supply route from Bakhmut to the town of Chasov Yar, intelligence said. 09:58 The German concern Rheinmetall wants to build a tank plant in Ukraine. According to the head of the concern Armin Papperger, the cost of the enterprise could be about 200 million euros. The plant will be able to produce up to 400 main battle tanks of the KF51 Panther type - this is a new vehicle that Rheinmetall introduced in the summer of 2022. 09:27 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, one person died, ten were injured. In the Kharkiv region, one person was wounded during shelling, another was blown up by a trip wire and died. In the Donetsk region, two people died - in Maximilianovka and Seversk, according to regional military administrations. 09:19 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the Ukrainian Defense Forces are probably preparing a controlled withdrawal from the "particularly difficult sectors" of Bakhmut. 09:12 The number of victims of the Russian strike on a residential building in Zaporozhye on March 2 increased to ten, including one child, the State Emergency Service reported. Search and rescue operations have been going on for two days. 08:54 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 4.
08:26 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Shakhtyorsky directions. Over the past day, the Defense Forces repulsed more than 150 enemy attacks on them, the General Staff said in the morning report . In particular, in the Bakhmut direction, the enemy does not abandon attempts to surround the city of Bakhmut. Over the past day, numerous attacks were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka, Dubovo-Vasilyevka, Bogdanovka, Bakhmut and Ivanovskoye. In Simferopol, the Russian occupation authorities, fearing the activation of the pro-Ukrainian movement, create the so-called "voluntary squads." In addition to patrolling the city, one of their tasks should be to identify spotters and saboteurs. 08:04 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Shoigu's alleged trip "to the zone of the special operation", where he "inspected the Russian grouping of troops Vostok", heard the report of the commander of the group, Colonel-General Rustam Muradov. 02:48 Ukraine has asked the EU to supply 250,000 artillery shells every month to advance Ukrainian troops on the battlefield, the Financial Times writes, citing Reznikov's letter to colleagues from 27 EU member states. In it, he notes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine produce only a fifth of the required number of shells due to a lack of ammunition. On average, this is 110 thousand 155 mm shells, while Russia uses four times as many. Reznikov said that for the successful completion of combat missions, the minimum requirement is at least 60% of the total ammunition load, namely 356,400 shells per month. 00:26 Head of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola announced that she had arrived in Kiev and met with Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk. Metsola stressed that Ukraine will definitely become a member of the EU and promised to strengthen cooperation. 00:13 The United States will prosecute Russian war criminals, Attorney General Merrick Garland said during his visit to Ukraine. Until recently, U.S. jurisdiction over war crimes was limited, he said, but Congress passed changes to the law that would allow prosecuting potential war criminals identified in the U.S. from anywhere in the world. "This means that in the coming years and decades, Russian war criminals in our country should know that they will end up in court, war criminals will not find refuge in the United States," the prosecutor general stressed. MARCH, 3RD
23:13 Biden and Scholz met at the White House and promised to support Ukraine for as long as it takes. 22:54 The Chinese authorities are angry with Russia due to the fact that information about the negotiations on the supply of weapons was in the public space, writes The Economist, citing its own sources. Beijing did not want the dissemination of such information to destroy the image of China as a "neutral intermediary" and also harm relations with Europe and the United States. 21:09 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukrainian heroes give their lives every day to stop Russian aggression, "and therefore the world has a clear moral obligation to our soldiers, to each and every one who is now in battle and who defends freedom. This duty is restore justice and hold the terrorist state and its leadership accountable." 19:46 Blinken announced a new $400 million military aid package to Ukraine. It will include HIMARS and howitzer ammunition, Bradley BPM ammunition, tank bridge layers, maintenance, training and support. 19:42 Gauleiter of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky signed a "decree" according to which Melitopol "officially" became the "capital of the Zaporozhye region." In addition to it, Berdyansk and Energodar were named "cities of regional significance". 19:35 Russian troops continue to storm Bakhmut, Donetsk region. Now they have switched from encircling the settlement to directly squeezing our defenders out of the city. About what is known about the situation in the city - in the material New tactics of the Russian army in Bakhmut . 18:58 Ukraine will strengthen the protection of electricity distribution systems and generation facilities from enemy drone and missile attacks, Shmyhal said. According to him, the relevant projects have already been developed and will be implemented before the next heating season. The security of power plants is also being strengthened - they already have air defense and missile defense systems installed. 18:50 In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian army does not leave attempts to surround the city of Bakhmut. During the day, the Defense Forces repelled numerous attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka, Dubovo-Vasilyevka and Bakhmut of the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in an evening report . 18:29 Information from Russian propagandists about the events in the Bryansk region on March 2 has radically diverged. At first they said that some "Ukrainian saboteurs" fired at a car, and then a school bus, either they took hostages or not. No photo or video evidence of the incident has been provided. Only the next day the FSB gave birth to an extremely controversial video. More details in the material Propaganda of the Russian Federation about Bryansk . 18:01 The EU will soon transfer 5,700 solar panels to Ukraine, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. 17:45 The Russians fired at the village in the morning. Starikovo, Shostka district, Sumy region, one person died, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. 17:33 Zelensky announced that he had met with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Wopke Hukstra and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Urmas Reinsalu. We discussed the creation in The Hague of the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine and the further buildup of sanctions pressure on Russia. 17:28 Ukraine spends 10,000 hryvnias per month on the maintenance of one Russian prisoner, Deputy Minister of Justice Olena Vysotskaya said: "If we talk about the more or less normally calculated cost of keeping a prisoner in a camp in 2022, taking into account the provision of the camp, with taxes, salaries , utility costs - this amount is about 10 thousand hryvnia per prisoner per month. 17:23 The sky over Kiev is currently protected thanks to an extensive system of various types of air defense, which are dispersed in certain places in the Kiev region, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Naev. In addition, according to him, these air defense forces and means make a constant maneuver on the ground so that the enemy does not figure out exactly where they are located. The entire system is constantly maintained in combat readiness. 16:42 Ukraine will receive a $170 million grant from Japan. The corresponding agreement was signed by Japanese Ambassador Matsuda Kuninori and Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov. The funds will be used for mine clearance, dismantling, restoration of infrastructure and agriculture. 16:15 The upper house of the German parliament - the Bundesrat, which unites representatives of all 16 federal German states - unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Ukraine on the occasion of the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. The document requires Russia to withdraw its troops from the entire territory of Ukraine and hold the leadership and military of the Russian Federation accountable for numerous war crimes committed during the full-scale invasion. In addition, the Bundesrat supports further EU sanctions against Russia, increased military assistance to Ukraine and promoting its accession to the European Union. 15:51 In the sky over the occupied Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region, Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber, the command of the Air Force reported. 15:28 In the village of Zmievka, Beryslavsky district, Kherson region, an investigative and task force of the police, which was on its way to a call, as well as volunteers from Kryvyi Rih, who were going to evacuate a pensioner and were carrying humanitarian aid, came under enemy fire. As a result, three civilians and two police officers were injured, the regional police said. 15:07 Zelensky and Latvian President Egils Levits signed a joint declaration confirming Latvia's support for full-fledged European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine. 14:59 In the village of Solontsi, Kherson region, during the repair of the electrical network, three employees of the distribution zone were blown up by a mine - one died on the spot, another had his legs torn off, he is in a very serious condition, Oleshkovsky mayor Evgeny Ryshchuk said. 14:53 Commander of the Eastern Group of Forces Alexander Syrsky arrived in Bakhmut, the command of the Ground Forces reported. In Bakhmut, he listened to commanders' reports on the state of affairs in subordinate units, got acquainted with the problematic issues of increasing the defense capability of Ukrainian units on the front line. 14:44 Unprepared mobilized from the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation as part of the regiment 1439 of the first and second battalions were sent on February 28 to storm the Avdievsky fortified area near Donetsk: the entire regiment was practically destroyed - several people were injured, the rest died, but are listed as missing, Radio Liberty reports, citing stories relatives. 14:37 In Russian Krasnodar, an explosion occurred on the territory of a flight school. Russian telegram channels report that local residents heard a loud explosion, after which a fire broke out on the territory of the aviation school. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation announced a "fire in the field." 14:35 Six Su-34 fighter-bombers disappeared from the military airfield in Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. This happened after a fire in the airfield area, which local residents observed on the evening of February 28, Radio Liberty reports, citing satellite images. 14:28 The SBU detained another rector of the temple of the UOC (MP), who was collecting intelligence for the FSB on the defense of the Sumy region. 14:22 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that yesterday's "murders" in the Bryansk region "were committed with NATO weapons," "in this regard, the question arises of qualifying these states as accomplices in such crimes and sponsors of terrorism." Meanwhile, the media, analyzing the video published by the FSB about the incident , came to the conclusion that it contains many inconsistencies and raises more questions than answers. 14:15 "Desktop" exercises were held at the US military base in Germany with the participation of American generals and Ukrainian commanders, writes The New York Times. According to the publication, this is part of the preparation of Ukraine for the upcoming counteroffensive. During the exercise, several strategies were worked out, taking into account all the risks and benefits. The commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, after one of the rounds of such a military simulation, praised the "phenomenal" adaptation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and added that the American side would help to adapt even better. 13:48 The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to the aggravation of problems within Russia itself, said Andrei Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. According to him, the events in the Bryansk region are evidence that the people of Russia "are starting to wake up against Putin's bloody dictatorship." Yusov also noted that Lukashenka is not taking new steps now - he is "reviving those activities, close interaction and orientation towards China, which were before 2014." In his opinion, Russia is now unable to satisfy all the needs of Lukashenka on its own. 13:30 Germany is asking Switzerland to sell some of its mothballed Leopard 2 tanks to it, the Swiss government said. This will replace the tanks that Germany and other EU countries have supplied to Ukraine. 13:12 President of Latvia Egils Levits and his wife Andra Levite are on a visit to Ukraine. Together with Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenskaya, they honored the memory of Ukrainian soldiers who fell during the Russian-Ukrainian war in Lviv. Also, during a working trip to the Lviv region, the President of Ukraine visited one of the hospitals where wounded Ukrainian defenders, who fought, in particular, in the Bakhmut direction, are being treated. 12:59 Prigozhin recorded a video that allegedly proves that Bakhmut is surrounded by Russian troops. In fact, the video was recorded not in Bakhmut, as the head of the PMC Wagner claims, but in the village of Paraskoveevka, the capture of which the Russian Federation announced on February 20, the Center for National Resistance under the MTR of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. They also recalled that in January, Prigozhin gave out a photo from a cave near Vladimirovka for the salt mines of Soledar, where the fighting was then going on. 12:35 Ukraine and Moldova have no agreements on a military operation in Transnistria, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Oleg Serebrian said: "This is a fully justified sovereign right of Ukraine to deploy its troops where it sees fit, or where it is considered or there is evidence that some kind of threat hangs over them, but this in no way means that Ukraine is preparing military operations, or that there is an agreement between Chisinau and Kiev to start a military operation in Transnistria." 12:19 Kuleba said that he discussed with Blinken on the phone the creation of a special tribunal to investigate the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The head of the State Department informed the Ukrainian minister about his discussions at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G20 countries in New Delhi. 12:07 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Russians have changed tactics around Bakhmut: temporarily reduced efforts to encircle the city from the southwest and northeast, and probably instead focus on forcing Ukrainian forces to withdraw from the city , concentrating on the northeast offensive. According to analysts, the Russians are likely to pressure the defense forces in Bakhmut to retreat through the T0504 highway. This should reduce the efforts of Russian forces to encircle the city. However, the double encirclement of Bakhmut will require additional manpower and equipment, and Russian troops will try to avoid further losses associated with a potential encirclement, ISW experts say. Meanwhile, Prigozhin once again stated that the fighters of the Wagner PMC "practically surrounded" Bakhmut. 11:56 In the Kherson region, near the village of Tomarino, Beryslav region, the Russians fired on a tractor driver, he died. Also, the enemy again attacked the village of Kazatskoye, Kakhovka district - two people were injured. Another person was wounded in Kherson: a fragment of an enemy shell injured an employee of one of the enterprises. 11:38 The International Committee of the Red Cross provides occupants in the village of Mangush, Mariupol district, with humanitarian aid, in particular equipment, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, the equipment was handed over to the so-called "children's department", which facilitates the deportation and abduction of Ukrainian children. Also, humanitarian aid from the ICRC was received by the occupational "department of social protection of the population", which is involved in the forced passportization of Ukrainian citizens, and the territorial "center of social services". 11:35 Russia is now not capable of producing A-50 radar aircraft, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: “There were about ten different modifications of such aircraft in total. Another thing is not how many of them there are, but the ability to produce them. tasks, as of today, the degraded industry of the Russian Federation is not capable. 11:29 Ukraine returned the bodies of another 17 fallen defenders, the Ministry of Reintegration reported. 11:27 The head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, called Angela Merkel responsible for the war in Ukraine because of the blocking of her entry into NATO. She recalled that in 2008 NATO had many supporters of the early admission of Ukraine, but Germany and France opposed because of Russia's position. 11:01 The death toll as a result of yesterday's rocket attack on a five-story residential building in Zaporozhye has grown to five, said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. Ten people are still considered missing, eight injured. Rescue work continues. 10:58 Ukraine uses Olkha-M guided missiles on the battlefield, which have a longer range than HIMARS missiles. Ukrainian missiles have a warhead weighing 220 kg and fly at a distance of up to 110 km. The plans are to increase the range to 150 km, said Ivan Vinnik, the first deputy head of the National Association of the Military-Industrial Complex of Ukraine. 10:44 A Russian pilot who bombed civilian targets in the Kharkiv region received 12 years in prison, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The convict is a deputy commander of a unit of the 6th Army of the Russian Aerospace Forces. In March last year, he dropped eight bombs near the Kharkov TV tower. As a result, the plane was shot down, and the pilot was detained. 10:39 Zaluzhny's adviser, General Viktor Nazarov, said in an interview with Spiegel that negotiations with Russia would be possible if the Armed Forces of Ukraine recapture some of the occupied territories - primarily the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions: "These are regions that have access to the Sea of ​​​​Azov and border on Crimea. Russia "will lose the land corridor. Crimea itself will also be under threat. The north of the Luhansk region is also important. A counteroffensive there will complicate control over the occupied territories of Donbass. The war will move to the borders of the Russian Federation. The Russians are trying to prevent this with all their might." 10:33 There has been no power shortage in the energy system of Ukraine for 20 consecutive days and so far it is not predicted. Consumption is fully provided by electricity from Ukrainian generation and insignificant imports, Ukrenergo reported. 10:16 EU countries have agreed on a plan for the rapid transfer of scarce artillery ammunition to Ukraine, writes the Financial Times, citing sources. According to the publication, this is a matter of "days, weeks, not months." 10:07 Danilov, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, expressed confidence that Beijing would not supply weapons to Moscow: “Why would China side with Russia and supply it with weapons? To get huge problems, to fall under certain restrictions? Of course, China he won't do it, he doesn't need it from the word "absolutely". It is Russia's great desire to involve China and other countries to which it is trying to extend its influence." According to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the neutral position taken by Beijing is absolutely correct and balanced in this case. "Of course, we would very much like help to be on our side, but we must understand the complexity of historical processes," he added. 09:52 In the fall, Russia mobilized not 300,000 military, as officially stated, but more than half a million, according to the opposition Russian edition of Mediazona. The journalists analyzed the number of marriages that the Russian mobilized concluded according to the accelerated procedure for painting - according to the agenda. According to these data, the number of mobilized is at least 520 thousand people. 09:13 British intelligence notes that, despite the war, Russian companies carry their products to major international arms exhibitions, but there is no evidence that the Russian army uses these developments in Ukraine. In particular, at a recent event, the Arena-E Active Protection System (APS) was presented, designed to increase the survivability of armored vehicles. However, there is no evidence of such systems being installed on Russia's own vehicles in Ukraine, where it has lost more than 5,000 armored vehicles. Intelligence believes that this is due to the inability of Russian industry to produce high-tech systems on the required scale, and this problem is exacerbated by international sanctions. 08:49 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Velyka Novoselka), five more were injured. In with. Podoli, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region, one person died. In the Kherson region, one person died and 17 were injured, according to the IVA. 08:33 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 3.
08:20 Over the past day, in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Shakhtyorsky directions, the Defense Forces repelled more than 85 attacks by Russians, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region, since the beginning of February, Russian mercenaries began to actively take away cars from residents who did not receive Russian passports. And in the village of Boevoye, Kherson region, the majority of residents refused to transfer their private plots to the balance of the local occupation administration, so as of March 1, about 200 people were taken out of this village in an unknown direction to carry out so-called filtration measures, and Russians will be quartered in their houses. mercenaries. 08:04 Elimination of the consequences of a missile strike on a residential building in Zaporozhye has been going on for more than a day, as of 7:00 am, rescuers have unblocked the bodies of two more dead residents of the house, the State Emergency Service reported. 07:48 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the incident with the alleged "Ukrainian saboteurs" in the Bryansk region caused dissatisfaction with the Kremlin's actions among Russian bloggers and the ultra-nationalist community, who hoped that after that Russia would officially declare war on Ukraine. But the Kremlin cannot satisfy all the demands of ultra-nationalists and fully support its own false rhetoric that Russia is waging an "existential war" in Ukraine, analysts say. 02:41 In Kherson, they found about 20 torture chambers, where the Russian invaders kept the residents of the temporarily captured city. The system of these prisons was funded from Russia at the state level , said Wayne Jordash, a British lawyer who leads the Mobile Justice Team, which is helping the Ukrainian authorities investigate the crimes of Russians in Kherson. According to Jordash, the Russian military was responsible for some prisons, and the FSB was responsible for others. Also, civilians took part in the management of torture facilities - both collaborators from Kherson and visitors from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. 02:22 As part of a new military aid package, the United States will transfer $400 million worth of weapons, ammunition and equipment to Ukraine, Reuters reports citing sources. The new package is expected to contain more guided multiple rocket launchers (GMLRS) for HIMARS launchers, ammunition for Bradley combat vehicles, and bridge layers for armored vehicles. 01:49 Russian troops and military equipment must leave the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, and control over the strategic facility must be returned to Ukraine, according to a statement from the European Union, published after the OSCE meeting. 01:04 Danilov said that on the issue of the liberation of Crimea, Ukraine can no longer be guided by the strategy adopted by the leadership of the state in 2021: "Given the circumstances that are happening today on the territory of our country, we must definitely consider this strategy, make it appropriate changes, vote for these changes at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, and after that the president must either issue a new decree or make changes to the adopted strategy. 00:37 Russians in the battles for Bakhmut lose seven times more military than the Ukrainian Defense Forces, said NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov: "Yes, it's difficult and difficult, but keep in mind that our guys and girls send hundreds of them there every day where they should go, given that they broke in here to kill us. Now we are killing them." | |
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