Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 18:39 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington and met with US President Donald Trump at the White House. This is evidenced by the broadcast that is being conducted by American media from the scene.
17:21 Ukrainian aviation struck positions of the Russian FSB in the Bryansk region. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the pinpoint strike, important military infrastructure in the settlement of Belaya Berezka was destroyed.
16:37 Since the beginning of the current day, 60 combat clashes with Russian invaders have occurred on the front. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the details in an operational report.
16.05 The Framework Agreement on U.S. Minerals will contain annexes on economic cooperation and security guarantees for Ukraine. This was stated by the Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office Mykhailo Podolyak on the air of the telethon.
14.58 A court in the Russian city of Krasnodar has found the Kama Shipping company guilty of violating navigation deadlines, which could have caused the accident of the Volgoneft-212 tanker in the Kerch Strait on December 15 last year. This was reported by the Radio Liberty project Crimea. Realities.
14.55 Russian troops crossed the state border of Ukraine near the village of Novenkoye in the Sumy region, but were thrown back to the territory of the Russian Federation. This was stated by the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmitry Likhovoy in a commentary for Interfax-Ukraine.
14.49 An attempt to set fire to a military aid shipment for Ukraine, which took place last year in the northern city of Šiauliai, has been prevented in Lithuania. This was reported by LRT on Friday, February 28.
According to a report by Lithuanian Police Commissioner General Arunas Pauluskas, the group attempted to set fire to the cargo, which included military equipment and radar stations for Ukraine.
14.40 Russian invaders shelled three communities in Donetsk Oblast. Three people were killed and two were wounded, the Donetsk Oblast prosecutor's office reported.
14.22 Members of the Mariupol Resistance blew up a car with a representative of the Russian FSB. The victim is currently in intensive care, the chances of survival are small. This was reported by the Mariupol Resistance on its Telegram channel.
13:12 On Friday night, Ukrainian military destroyed a warehouse of thermobaric munitions belonging to Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast, in the Selydove area. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:49 Russian invaders have become active in the area of the village of Novenkoye in the Sumy region. Fighting is underway there. Details were reported by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, Andriy Kovalenko, on Telegram.
11:46 The elimination of the consequences of the drone strike on the shelter of the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the exclusion zone continues. The IAEA team at the site is closely monitoring the situation. This is stated in a statement by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
11:40 Ukraine received equipment worth 7.5 million euros from the IT coalition. The delivery was financed by the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the Ministry of Defense reported.
11:28 An assassination attempt was made on the leader of the pro-government musical group Russian Flag Yevgeny Dolganov. He is currently in hospital in serious condition. This was reported by the propaganda Telegram channel Operation Z: Servicemen of the Russian Spring.
10:17 The Security Service has detained two henchmen of the Russian special services who were spying on the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the central and western regions of Ukraine.
In the Cherkasy region, a 20-year-old resident of the city of Radyvyliv was detained, who was spying on the Ukrainian Armed Forces units that were moving towards the front through the territory of the western region. In Poltava, a 58-year-old local resident was detained, who was adjusting the Russian missile and drone attacks on the regional center.
09:30 Air defense forces shot down 107 Russian drones out of 208 that attacked Ukrainian territory at night, 97 drone imitators were lost. Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia suffered as a result of the Russian attack.
09:17 Three apartments were destroyed in Zaporizhia as a result of a drone attack at night. Drones damaged five private houses and three multi-story buildings.
A fire destroyed three apartments in a multi-story building, gas and electricity supplies were cut off in the entrance.
08:53 A forward command post of the Russian military was hit in the Kherson region. Scouts from the Active Operations Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate carried out the strike using an explosive drop from a drone. The command post belonged to the 14th Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces.
08:20 Over the past 24 hours, 128 combat clashes were recorded on the front, most of them in the Pokrovsky direction, where the Ukrainian military stopped 49 assault actions by the Russians.
07:25 As of February 28, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 874,560 people (+1,060 per day).
03:36 A Russian drone hit a multi-story building in Zaporizhia, causing a fire. The blast wave and debris also damaged neighboring houses. An 82-year-old woman was injured.
01:22 Great Britain is ready to send its ground troops and aircraft as peacekeepers to Ukraine. Ireland has also announced its readiness to join the peacekeeping mission if it is created.
0:30 Five enemy drones hit one of the city's districts in Sumy. Several people were injured, and windows were damaged in a number of houses.
In the end, I think the total casualties for both sides will wind up being about a tenth of what has been officially -- and loudly reported -- by both sides.
Only a tenth? Thank goodness — I was mourning the imminent disappearance of both nations.
Still prodigious numbers by American standards, to be sure...
[LB] On the 1,100th day of the great war, the Russians lost, according to some estimates, 471,367 killed, missing, prisoners and deserters, and another 1,042,398 wounded and sick.
The number of appeals from Russia to the Ukrainian project "I Want to Find" has increased, which helps search for missing Russians. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 8,548 of them, and since the beginning of the Great War, about 60,000. On the Ukrainian side, the number of missing people has also increased, which has a logical explanation: we retreated, leaving the bodies of our fallen comrades in the territory occupied by the enemy, and it is useless to demand that savages adhere to the norms of international humanitarian law, so this will continue until identification.
A total of 692,000 Russians met the year 2024 on Ukrainian soil, but only 540,000 spent it. The Defense Forces of Ukraine spent all the rest in hell. But the best ballet in the world cannot perform with a reduced troupe.
The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces reported that 370,000 “volunteers” were called up for the year. We saw them, now many are lying in the fields, landings, and ruins on the front line. Then, to the 370,000, 53,100 amnestied convicts and 3,900 mercenaries were added (such an amazing category is graduates of the “special purpose university in Gudermes, Chechnya”). It turned out 427,000.
Smart people have discovered discrepancies in the Russian budget between the allocated funding and the number of contract workers who should have received it. Interesting facts : convicts who signed contracts do not receive payments from the Ministry of Defense for this, although they are promised money.
The “volunteers” of the BARS units are bypassing payments, because as of 2022 they did not have contracts, but employment contracts with the Ministry of Defense, so they are not entitled to any funeral, signature, or injury payments. Why break a good tradition and start paying something?! They did not live well, so there is nothing to start.
The question remains, "how, having received 427,000 reinforcements, did the Russian group decrease by 152,000 in a year?" Since June, the enemy's losses have exceeded the number of reinforcements. At the beginning of autumn, the balance leveled off a bit, but subsided in December.
In January 2025, 16,000 autumn conscripts were transferred to contracts and Putin was shown beautiful New Year's statistics. But we are observing assault groups, if not on crutches, then heavily bandaged. The Russians have already developed a new term for regiments staffed with unfit personnel, who are being driven from hospitals to the front line - a cripple regiment. Symptomatic, you must agree.
Let's summarize: as of 01.01.2024, 692,000 fought against Ukraine on its territory and nearby. During the year, another 427,000 arrived, that is, it became 1,119,000. At the end of the year, 540,000 remained. The difference is the losses of all categories, including prisoners (there are not many of them, much less than the wounded, sick, missing, deserters). That is, we see that the enemy lost most of its group in 2024.
How did all this affect the front line? We see on Deep State maps that the "strategic offensive operation in the Southwestern Theater of Operations" has turned into several operations being carried out simultaneously in separate directions according to a single idea and plan.
Advancing from Avdeevka to Pokrovsk, for example, the enemy lost 35,000 soldiers along the way, the "Center" group of troops decreased from 110,000 to 75,000. Today, the enemy command is deciding whether to continue near Pokrovsk or open a new, Konstantinovka direction. The regrouping of the 8th Army, which was transferred from near Kurakhovo to the Torets direction, speaks in favor of the second decision.
LOSSES OF THE OCCUPYING ARMY IN THE KHARKIV DIRECTION
It is also clear that the enemy has squandered strategic reserves — if not all, then most of them — and will not be able to conduct two offensive operations at the level of an army or several armies at the same time (near Pokrovskoye — the 41st and 2nd armies, near Toretskoye — the 51st and 8th). To this should be added the intention to seize as much Ukrainian land as possible BEFORE hypothetical negotiations, which encourages the enemy to attack even where there is neither opportunity nor sense.
THE SITUATION AT THE FRONT. A GLIMMER OF HOPE
And here lies our chance: a sudden powerful strike on a place where the enemy is exhausted (you can attack all the time, but without reserves you cannot compensate for the results of the attacks, such areas will be weakened) can destroy the front.
The only condition is that we must have reserves for this.
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[EngMilRu] From 22 to 28 February, nine group strikes were carried out by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with the use of high-precision air-based weapons and attack drones to hit energy facilities that supported the Ukrainian defence industry, as well as military airfield infrastructure, and military fuel storage facilities.
In addition, the strikes engaged the production and storage facilities of attack drones, training facilities for drone operators and temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed groups and foreign mercenaries.
During the week, the Sever Group of Forces continued to rout AFU units in Kursk region.
In the course of the offensive operations, Pogrebki, Orlovka, Nikolsky, and Novaya Sorochina have been liberated.
The Group hit manpower and military hardware of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, seven mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, five air assault brigades, three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one naval infantry brigade, and four territorial defence brigades.
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted losses on units of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades.
Over the past week, more than 1,960 troops, 11 tanks, 156 armoured fighting vehicles, and 157 motor vehicles of the enemy have been neutralised in the area of responsibility of the Sever Group of Forces.
The enemy losses also included two MLRS combat vehicles, 40 field artillery guns, one Paladin self-propelled artillery system and one U.S.-made M-777 howitzer, three anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight electronic warfare stations, and 12 ammunition depots.
As a result of active operations of the Zapad Group of Forces, the settlements of Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and Topoli (Kharkov region) have been liberated.
The Zapad Group of Forces also inflicted damage on five mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defence brigades, and one National Guard brigade.
The enemy has lost more than 1,340 troops, one tank, 13 armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, 33 motor vehicles, 34 field artillery guns, 16 of them manufactured by NATO countries, 13 electronic warfare stations, and 13 ammunition depots.
The Yug Group's units continued to advance to the depths of the enemy's defence and liberated Ulakly (Donetsk People's Republic).
The Group inflicted fire damage on six mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one mountain assault brigade, two assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the International Legion, and the Azov special forces brigade.
Over the past week, the AFU have lost more than 1,210 troops, two tanks, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, 21 field artillery guns, seven ammunition depots, five electronic warfare and counter-battery stations.
The Tsentr Group's units improved the tactical situation by decisive actions and completed liberation of Novoandreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The Group hit ten mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one airmobile brigade, two assault brigades, one UAV brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, and two National Guard brigades.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 2,340 troops, five tanks, three German-made Leopard tanks, and 32 armoured fighting vehicles, including five Western-made vehicles, 22 motor vehicles, and 25 field artillery guns.
The Vostok Group's units have taken more favourable lines and positions. They inflicted damage on formations of one tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.
The enemy has lost more than 1,180 troops, two tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, and 21 motor vehicles. Twenty-two field artillery guns, including three 155mm self-propelled artillery systems of NATO-made countries, as well as three ammunition depots, were neutralised.
The Dnepr Group's units improved the situation along the front line. They hit manpower and military hardware of four mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, five coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and one territorial defence brigade.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 650 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, 44 motor vehicles, seven field artillery guns, seven ammunition depots, 11 electronic warfare and counter-battery stations.
Over the past week, Russian air defence systems have shot down one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 13 French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, 20 JDAM guided aerial bombs, nine HIMARS MLRS projectiles manufactured by the United States, and 42 Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectiles, as well as 702 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 656 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 44,834 unmanned aerial vehicles, 600 anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,932 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,523 MLRS combat vehicles, 22,149 field artillery guns and mortars, and 32,305 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
In the course of the offensive actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Novaya Sorochina.
The Group inflicted fire damage on one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, two air assault brigades, two territorial defence brigades, and two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Bondarevka, Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Makhnovka, Mirny, Pervy Knyazhy, Rubanshchina, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye. Four enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-tactical, Army Aviation, and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and hardware close to Viktorovka, Gornal, Dmitryukov, Zamostye, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Nikolayevka, Oleshnya, Staraya Sorochina, Cherkasskoye Konopelka, Yuzhny, as well as Alekseyevka, Basovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Novenkoye, Sumy, Khoten, and Yunakovka (Sumy region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 240 troops over the past day. One armoured personnel carrier, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, 22 motor vehicles, four artillery guns, including one Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, as well as six mortars, two electronic warfare stations, one electronic reconnaissance radar station, seven UAV command posts, and three ammunition depots were neutralised. One AFU serviceman surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 64,075 troops, 382 tanks, 290 infantry fighting vehicles, 248 armoured personnel carriers, 2,084 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,251 motor vehicles, 495 artillery guns, 52 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA, 25 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles, 118 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, nine air defence radars, 51 units of engineering and other materiel, including 19 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 14 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
23:57 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 02/28/2025 to 00:00 03/01/2025.
A total of 20 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Information was received about the injuries of two civilians, including a teenager born in 2010.
DAMAGED:
In total, 13 residential buildings,
Fiuve cars,
Four civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 20 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 53 units of various ammunition were fired.
19:38 Tankers of the 18th Combined Arms Army of the Dnepr group support assault units with fire –destroy enemy positions, watercraft, UAV control points, heavy artillery and MLRS.
This time, the crew of the T-72B3M tank destroyed a temporary deployment point and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region with a precise hit.
18:43 Sniper couple knocked down two Ukrainian hexacopters "Baba Yaga" at night in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. The masters of precision shooting serve in the 77th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment of the "Southern" group of troops.
18:16 Armed Forces of Ukraine fired artillery n Kremennaya in the LPR, causing damage to the power transmission line support, with about 11,000 subscribers in the region left without electricity.
17:23 Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the North group of forces with the help of UAVs revealed an enemy pickup truck hidden by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants behind a building.
The detected target was quickly destroyed by the FPV drone crew in the area of one of the populated areas in the border region of the Kursk region.
16:19 Around 15:15 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of Kursk region.
16:02 Crews of strike unmanned aerial vehicles of the Atlant battalion of the Center group of forces destroyed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
15:45 Kursk Region. Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces entered Malaya Loknya –MAP
14:55 Dnepropetrovsk direction
In the area of Novosergeevka, Novoaleksandrovka and Uspenovka there are fierce counter battles.
Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the direction of Kotlyarovka and Preobrazhenka in the plantings west and southwest of Nadezhdinka.
In the area of Preobrazhenka there are fierce counter battles. A little further south our assaults have advanced in the direction of Troitskoye and Bogdanovka.
Between Novoandreevka and Andreevka there are fierce battles for the landings in the area of the Stavkovaya and Solenkaya gullies.
14:52 Novopavlovskoe direction
Units of the 57th Motorized Rifle Brigade took up positions of the second line of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the west, reaching the Voronaya gully. They are attacking positions in the direction of Volnoye Pole to the north in cooperation with units south of Privolnoye.
Behind the Voronaya gully there is a rather powerful enemy fortified area in the area of Zelenoe Pole and Temirovka.
North of Privolnoye and west of Burlatskoye, our units are advancing towards Shevchenko.
From the Volnoye Pole area, the enemy is launching counterattacks in the direction of Privolnoye, trying to slow down the pace of the offensive of the East Group of Forces.
14:48 Kursk region
After the liberation of Novaya Sorochina and Nikolskoye yesterday, our units are fighting for Staraya Sorochina.
The enemy began to retreat to Malaya Loknya. Our assaults, pursuing the enemy, began fighting for Malaya Loknya. The situation here for the enemy is getting worse with each passing hour.
To the south, battles are underway for Lebedevka and Novenkoye.
14:20 In the Khar'kov region, servicemen of the reconnaissance units of the North group of troops discovered an accumulation of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in shelters.
The crew of the TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system of the group destroyed the positions of Ukrainian militants.
13:54 Around 13:10 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
13:34 In the area of the settlement Kazachya Lopan, the FPV operator GV "Sever" discovered, caught up with and destroyed Poseidon reconnaissance drone of the Ukrainian military.
13:15 Crews of 152mm 2S19 self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the "West" group of forces destroyed UAV control point, camouflaged weapons, dugouts and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the area of the special operation.
12:32 During the offensive actions of the units of the North group of forces released the settlement of Novaya Sorochina.
12:31 Russian Armed Forces units liberated Skudnoe –MAP
12:09 Russian Armed Forces units liberated Privolnoye –MAP
11:53 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Vostok group, supporting the attack aircraft, striking the enemy in the South Donetsk direction.
This time, the artillerymen struck at strong points, firing points and concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the area of the settlement of Razliv.
11:47 Our control on Zabich Island (Kherson direction) has been confirmed –MAP
11:32 Burlatskoe liberated –MAP
11:06 In the area of the settlement of Shostka in the Sumy region, the operator of the reconnaissance UAV GV "Sever" wasopeneda launch preparation point for the Ukrainian military's long-range kamikaze UAVs. It was decided to strike the target with an Iskander.
As a result of the fire strike, several enemy vehicles with equipment, about 14 units of the long-range kamikaze UAVs of the Cobra aircraft type and more than 20 UAV crew specialists were destroyed.
11:05 The support and forest plantations between Burlatsky and Privolny have been cleared –MAP
10:46 Around 8.15 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of Kursk region.
09:54 UAV operators 44 AK GV “Sever” opened firing points of mortar and machine gun crews of the Ukrainian military in the Khar'kov direction. After the precise hit on the targets by Severian's FPV drones, both the mortar and the machine gun were destroyed.
09:43 FPV drone calculations at Rubicon Center continue to destroy armored and automotive equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region.
09:09 Units of the Russian Armed Forces entered Burlatskoye and Privolnoye –MAP
08:41 Novopavlovskoe direction
By morning, the units of the Vostok Group of Forces had driven the enemy out of Burlatskoye.
During the night attack, the enemy suffered losses and retreated in the direction of Shevchenko. The village is being cleared. The enemy is trying to stop our advance with strike drones and artillery.
In addition, our assaults drove the enemy out of the stronghold, advancing along the heights between Privolnoye and Burlatskoye, reaching the approaches to Volnoye Pole.
07:09 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed22 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:
Eight UAVs over the territory of the Oryol region,
Seven UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,
Four UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region,
Two UAVs over the territory of the Krasnodar region and
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[Regnum] The Federal Security Service (FSB) prevented a terrorist attack against Metropolitan Tikhon ( Shevkunov ) of Simferopol and Crimea. Security forces detained two citizens recruited by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR). Details — in the Regnum News Agency article.
RECRUITMENT IN TELEGRAM
On the morning of February 28, the FSB reported the arrest of a Ukrainian citizen and a Russian, whom the GUR recruited via Telegram in mid-2024. The assassination attempt on Tikhon was made by his assistant, Ukrainian citizen Denis Popovich. During interrogation, he admitted that the Ukrainian special services had instructed him to monitor the metropolitan, and in case of refusal, they threatened to kill his relatives.
"The task was to find an ally and eliminate Metropolitan Tikhon. The explosives themselves were handed over to us in the form of a stash," the detainee admitted.
BOMB IN THE TEMPLE
The Metropolitan was to be killed using an explosive device that was handed over to the suspects through a hiding place in December 2024. They were to plant the explosives in the Metropolitan’s living quarters in Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery.
The terrorist attack was supposed to be carried out while Tikhon was in Moscow. Popovich's accomplice was Nikita Ivankovich, a cleric from the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki. Popovich was supposed to bring the bomb to the church.
Ivankovic said that the first assassination attempt failed due to Popovic's arrest.
“The first assassination attempt was planned for the beginning of 2025, but due to the fact that Denis was detained, it was not carried out, so the assassination attempt was planned for the end of February 2025,” Ivankovic said.
In January, police detained Popovich near the Turgenevskaya metro station for provocative behavior and foul language. The Meshchansky Court of Moscow found him guilty of petty hooliganism and disobedience to government officials and sentenced him to 15 days of administrative arrest, TASS reported.
After committing the crime, the suspects planned to leave Russia using fake passports provided by Ukrainian special services, the FSB said.
The service published footage of the suspects being detained. Both detainees confessed. A criminal case was opened against them under articles on preparation for a terrorist act and illegal trafficking of explosive devices.
In the phones of Popovich and Ivankovich, law enforcement officers found more than 70 Ukrainian contacts, including the press secretary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Margarita Rivchachenko. In addition, in the apartment of one of the perpetrators, security forces found a shovel stained with soil, and then discovered a cache in a forest belt, which contained a homemade explosive device in a plastic box. Also, during the search of the suspects, two fake passports with photographs of the detainees were found.
KREMLIN: NOTHING IS SACRED FOR THE KYIV REGIME
Tikhon has been the head of the Crimean Metropolitanate since October 2023. From 1995 to 2018, he was the abbot of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery, and from 2018 to 2023, he was the abbot of the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery (where he was a novice in the 1980s) and Metropolitan of Pskov and Pechersky.
Since 2016, Tikhon has headed the Patriarchal Council for Culture. He is the author of a number of theological, historical and other books, the most famous of which is “Unholy Saints and Other Stories.” The number of copies of this work sold by 2019 exceeded 3 million.
The presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the assassination attempt on Tikhon showed that the Kiev regime does not disdain anything in its actions against Russia. For the Kiev special services, nothing is sacred, he emphasized.
On February 27, President Vladimir Putin noted at the FSB board meeting that the number of terrorist crimes in Russia is growing, and most of them are organized by Ukrainian special services. Putin called on the FSB to use its available forces and means as effectively as possible and to pay special attention to preventive measures.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has published new footage in the case of the assassination attempt on Metropolitan Tikhon ( Shevkunov ) of Simferopol and Crimea.
The video shows the moment of the arrest of one of the suspects in the preparation of the terrorist attack. In the attacker's apartment, security forces found a shovel covered in soil. Then there are shots from the place where the cache was found in the forest belt, which contained a homemade explosive device in a plastic box.
Two fake passports with photographs of the detainees were also found.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the detention of a Russian and a Ukrainian citizen, who were recruited by Ukrainian special services on Telegram, became known on February 28. Security forces seized a homemade explosive device from the men, as well as two fake Ukrainian passports. A criminal case was opened against the Ukrainian agents under articles on preparation for a terrorist attack and illegal trafficking of explosive devices.
The FSB Public Relations Center previously published footage of the detention of GUR agents. The recording shows security officers approaching one of the suspects, putting his hands behind his back and handcuffing him. The law enforcement officers then take the man to a car.
Metropolitan assistant Denis Popovich and cleric of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Sokolniki Nikita Ivankovich admitted during interrogation that they were preparing an assassination attempt on the clergyman. According to them, they were recruited by Ukrainian intelligence and, on its instructions, they planned to detonate a bomb in the Sretensky Monastery.
Popovich said he was supposed to follow Metropolitan Tikhon. He claims he was threatened with reprisals against his relatives if he refused to carry out the task. He was then tasked with finding an ally and eliminating the cleric. The suspects were supposed to plant a bomb in Metropolitan Tikhon's living quarters at the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow, and after completing the task, leave Russia using forged documents.
#1
Ukrainian Nazis ["Ptooey!"]
Ape Rooskie consumers of hooey:
"Explosives from cache
Well-concealed in moustache,
I shall kick Tikhon's ash, and... kablooey!"
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[Regnum] The deal between Ukraine and the United States on rare earth metals did not take place. The agreement was not signed, the White House said on February 28.
"The US and Ukraine were unable to sign an agreement on mineral resources," the White House press pool clarified.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump and the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky had a heated conversation. During a conversation with the press, the leaders of the two countries had a spat over the Ukrainian settlement. Following the meeting, Trump said that Zelensky was not yet ready for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 28, a Ukrainian delegation headed by Zelensky arrived in Washington to sign an agreement on rare earth metals. The upcoming visit was announced by Donald Trump, who had previously expressed interest in the extraction of rare earth metals in Ukraine. The head of the White House noted that Washington should not lose money due to assistance to Kiev. According to Trump, the deal on rare earth metals will correct this and at the same time help Ukraine develop after the end of the conflict.
During the meeting in the Oval Office, the American president demanded that the head of the Kiev regime agree to peace talks, saying that otherwise the US would "wash its hands of it." Zelensky spoke out against a ceasefire and truce. As a result, a squabble began, during which Donald Trump reminded Volodymyr Zelensky about the $350 billion in military aid from the "stupid president." He also emphasized that Zelensky, by arguing with the head of state that provides Ukraine with resources without which the military conflict would end "in three days," thereby showed disrespect for the US. As a result, the joint press conference of Zelensky and Trump was cancelled.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev called the squabble between Zelensky and Trump a brutal dressing down. The ungrateful Zelensky received a strong slap in the face, this is useful, but it is necessary to stop military aid to the Nazi machine, Medvedev emphasized.
The agreement on Ukraine's natural resources, which US President Donald Trump intends to sign with the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky, could become a trap for Trump, Christopher McCalion, a columnist for the British portal UnHerd, noted in his publication on February 28.
If the deal is concluded, the US involvement in the events in Ukraine will become irreversible, while Washington will not be able to shift part of its “burden” to Europe and will not receive significant income, the author noted.
“Washington is unlikely to gain significant revenue, let alone strategic value, from [the deal], given the evidence that Ukraine’s supposed natural wealth and rare earth reserves have been grossly exaggerated by Kiev for Trump’s ‘benefit’,” McCalion wrote.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Trump previously announced that he intends to sign an agreement on the use of Ukraine's natural resources together with Zelensky on February 28.
On February 3, the US President first announced Washington's interest in mining rare earth metals in Ukraine. On February 19, Zelensky revealed the details of the agreement: according to him, the US is demanding compensation from Ukraine in the amount of $500 billion in minerals for the assistance already provided. Zelensky noted that the document lacks security guarantees and that he refused to sign such a version of the agreement.
On February 24, Trump announced an upcoming meeting with Zelensky to sign the deal. The head of the White House noted that Washington should not lose money because of aid to Kiev. He said that the deal on rare earth metals will help correct this and at the same time help Ukraine develop after the end of the conflict.
On February 25, the British newspaper Financial Times reported that Kiev and Washington had agreed on the terms of an agreement on rare earth metals after the US dropped its demand for $500 billion in compensation. The final version of the document envisages the creation of a fund to which Ukraine will contribute 50% of its revenues from the sale of minerals and related logistics, the report noted.
#1
The Hot Takes I was seeing yesterday was basically, "Dumb Trump now the EU will get the minerals!11"
Interesting take from people who were like, "GW starts wars for oil!" but whatever. 2 weeks ago they were not even considering compensation of any kind, so it's a whole Get'em! campaign damn the contradictions. They really are boring.
Seriously boring, the people who think the EU is superior to the USA especially 'in these times' are upset the EU would get claim to the REMs? Shouldn't that be a win and Thank You Trump? What about the possibility that doesn't happen and Russia lays claim?
#3
The other one I've seen floating around, and I'm sure you've seen the meme of the cracking damn with the water being the bad thing and the village being in trouble and the damn being the only thing preventing it?
Russia the water, Europe the town, and Ukraine the damn.
#6
Russia the water, Europe the town, and Ukraine the damn.
"Europa's an impotent trickletorrent
Of globalist eunuchs, abhorrent
In every respect!"
Thus poor Russia is fecked... Unless...
[busts Ukraine on an ICC warrant]
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