Denazification operation of Ukraine: operational summary (update)

7:53 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced the decision to introduce martial law throughout the country.

8:03 According to The Guardian, referring to the operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, seven powerful air strikes were carried out at the Vasylkivska air base near Kiev.

8:04 As a result of strikes by cruise missiles today, around 5 am, a military airfield in Kulbakino, Mykolaiv region, was destroyed, writes the Telegram channel Veteran’s Notes.

8:05 Footage of the destruction of the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv appeared on the Web (https://t.me/grey_zone/12440). 

8:18 Airport in Kherson is on fire. Video from war correspondent Yuri Kotenok (https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/30407).

8:27 Two powerful explosions thundered in Mariupol, Reuters reports.

8:37 Explosions thundered in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk regions (https://t.me/milinfolive/76450).

8:41 The Western media have published a “map of strikes” by Russia on military infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. It is worth noting that, unlike the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Federation does not attack pressure stations, power stations, hospitals, schools and other social infrastructure facilities.

8:44 The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports a fire at an ammunition depot in the Kiev region.

8:49 The General Staff of Ukraine confirmed information about strikes on airports in five cities: Boryspil, Ozerny, Kulbakin (Nikolaev), Chuguev, Kramatorsk, Chernobaevka (Kherson).

08:56 The first two settlements in the Luhansk People’s Republic were liberated from the Kiev invaders. The Ministry of Emergency Affairs of Ukraine stated that Melovoe and Gorodishche are now controlled by the forces of the Luhansk People’s Republic.

9:03 A siren sounds in Lviv.

9:05 The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that the headquarters of the National Guard was destroyed.

9:06 Russian Defence Ministry announced the incapacitation of the military structure of the air bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

9:14 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to introduce martial law throughout the country.

9:49 UNIAN reported on the losses in the ranks of the Ukrainian security forces: four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were wounded in Ochakiv.

10:02 Eyewitnesses report Russian vehicles in the village of Liptsy, Kharkiv region (https://t.me/milinfolive/76474).

10:03 In Ochakov (Nikolaev region) the port is on fire.

10:12 The first footage from the destroyed airfield in Kulbakino appeared. (https://t.me/milinfolive/76465).

10:14 The Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported that columns of the Russian military are crossing the Ukrainian border in the Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Lugansk regions.

10:17 Ukrainian servicemen leave their positions en masse – People’s Militia of the LPR.

10:37 Military correspondent Yuriy Kotenok published a photo of the result of a missile attack on the military base of Zelensky’s formations in Brovary (https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/30492).

10:46 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said that Zelensky gave the order to “inflict maximum losses on the enemy.”

10:47 The headquarters of the operation of the joint forces of Ukraine in the Donbass has been destroyed, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.

11:12 In Kharkiv, groups of citizens are tearing down Ukrainian flags, Russian flags have appeared in the center of the city – military commander Kotenok.

11:22 In Ukraine, the headquarters of the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operation was destroyed.

11:57 In Mariupol, Ukrainian equipment is hiding in residential areas. An SPG-9 was installed on the roof of a 9-storey building on the Left Bank, writes the BelVPO Telegram channel.

12:08 According to the Rybar /Z/ Telegram channel, as of 12:00, all aircraft of the 7th tactical aviation brigade, Turkish Bayraktar UAVs at the airfield in the Nikolaev region and facilities at the Ivano-Frankivsk airport were destroyed. In Ochakiv, the Ukrainian naval base, built with the participation of the United States and Britain, was destroyed. Parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated from several settlements in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. High-precision weapons were used to destroy the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including Caliber cruise missiles. Warehouses in Krivoy Rog, Kharkov, Odessa, Vinnitsa and other regions were affected.

12:27 The Ministry of Health announced the cessation of planned hospitalizations in Ukraine until further notice.

12:30 The military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine escape from Ukraine, driving tanks right on civilian cars. Video (18+) (https://t.me/medvedev_note/3552).

12:33 The National Bank of Ukraine has limited cash withdrawals from accounts.

12:54 Staged video filming was held in Ukrainian cities with allegedly “mass casualties” among the civilian population of Ukraine, writes RT.

12:55 In the Khmelnitsky region, as a result of a missile and bomb strike, a warehouse of fuel and lubricants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is on fire. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, military warehouses are burning in Krasnopolye and Marganets.

In the Vinnitsa region in the cities of Tulchin and Bokhan, a fire broke out in military units. A TV tower was blown up in Lutsk, according to the Telegram channel Wild Field.

12:56 A source of the Resident Telegram channel said that Russia had all the coordinates of the Ukrainian air defense and communications units, so they plan to look for “traitors” on Bankovaya.

13:22 Explosions have just been heard near the airfield in Gostomel (Kyiv region).

13:26 Residents of Kiev heard a powerful explosion. Eyewitnesses suggest that a blow could have been struck at infrastructure facilities in Brovary.

13:32 A military warehouse in Odessa is hit by a shell.

13:34 An explosion occurred in the military unit in Podil (Kyiv).

13:35 Zelensky submitted a law on full mobilization to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

13:57 A radar station is on fire in Mariupol.

Military summary of the LDPR. The situation on the line of contact (updated)