21:17 Basurin on the blockade and storming of Mariupol: Everything is going as planned. Volnovakha will soon be ours. Mariupol is blockaded. Troops will move further in a direction that will help us finally stop shelling residential areas not only at ours, but also at our neighbours in Luhansk. It takes a couple of days to understand how the situation in Mariupol will develop. Because in any case there will be a negotiation process – persuading the enemy to lay down arms, surrender or leave the city so that civilians do not suffer. A humanitarian catastrophe is about to happen there – no light, no food. We must do everything so that people do not suffer, that is why we said we would open a humanitarian corridor. If there is a normal consciousness that they will let civilians leave the city it would ease our way. If not, I think negotiations, but no one has cancelled the special operation.
20:39 A Ukrainian SAU that was firing from a residential area has been destroyed in the Sumy region.
18:19 Hungary has decided not to send its troops or weapons to Ukraine – the country’s foreign minister.
17:52 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have blown up a bridge in Voznesensk, Mykolayiv Region.
17:51 Residents of resort villages to the west of Mariupol report that they are surrounded: Ukrainian troops do not let them go to Urzuf and further to the territories liberated by Russia. The Yalta-Mangush road was mined, and the road along the Sea of Azov to Mariupol – bridges along the steep coast were blown up. Telephone connection is poor there. In Mangush itself, they say that Russian people did not enter the city, but went around it to the north.
17:50 During the day, the Russian Aerospace Forces made about 400 sorties: Strategic facilities and stocks of materiel are put out of action, radars and air defense systems, and accumulations of equipment are destroyed. The workshops for the production of Molotov Cocktails and advanced positions are being liquidated. Arsenals and positional areas are put out of action. The embargo on massive fire destruction of objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was in effect until now, has been finally lifted. So far, we have seen the work of infantry units, special forces, army aviation, and artillery. Now the results of the full-fledged work of fighter-bomber aviation have gone. But the grouping of the Russian Navy in the Black and Azov Seas has not yet been fully involved.
17:45 “Valiant” Ukrainian soldiers are sitting in ambush at the school. They will wait until the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are planted with them, after which CNN, the BBC and other non-polite people will join the case with the topic of merciless executions of schools by Russians. This is just to understand with whom and what kind of war is going on.
17:39 At the moment, a cleansing of the city of Mariupol is underway.
17:36 A resident of Berdyansk about taking control of the city by the armed forces of the Russian Federation: “It is now calm, safe here, crime has been neutralized. There is no police, everything is closed, blocked. In fact, we have complete anarchy here, but at the same time, doctors go to work for free, there are volunteers”, said a local resident.
17:27 On the territory recently occupied by Ukraine, an elderly woman made a sign of a cross to a convoy of the Russian Armed Forces, and then the fighter climbed into the locker and gave her part of his dry ration.
17:25 Concerning the attack on Slavyansk: Russian equipment reached Izyum yesterday. The servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces staged a duel with mortar crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and then retreated back. In fact, without the liquidation of a large group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine roaming in the Volchansk-Veliky Burluk-Pechenegy region, the stabilization of the route is impossible.
17:23 The situation in Kharkiv: Military infrastructure is being tried to be put out of order at night. At the moment, the city is blocked by Russian troops from the north, east and southeast. In the village itself, it is relatively quiet, the “witch hunt”, the search for “saboteurs” and looting continues. The territory of the tank school is burning down, shells are exploding.
17:22 The Russian delegation left for the meeting place with the Ukrainian negotiators.
17:15 A native from Odessa turned to the Ukrainians with a request not to resist the Russian troops: “Do not believe the propaganda that the goal is to destroy people. This is a lie in order to hide behind people. Power is hidden behind the people. This special operation is being carried out against those who took part in the ATO,” said a resident of Odessa.
17:04 A resident of Mariupol spoke about the “valiant defenders” from the “Azov” detachment, who are fighting under the guise of civilians.
17.00 The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry claims that 19 countries are supplying weapons to Kiev, and more than a thousand mercenaries from 16 countries are also arriving.
16:53 A subscriber from Kharkov writes. Zelensky, Ukrainian Armed Forces, we know that you hear. This is an appeal to you: “There is a catastrophe in Kharkiv!!! It is urgent to achieve the opening of the gum corridor and the evacuation of civilians!!! Who to contact!? Please, help!!”.
16:40 More than 1.2 thousand workers of education, science and culture of Kuban appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, supporting the military operation in Ukraine.
16:34 Russian troops are already in Balakleya near Kharkov.
16:32 Shooting is heard in Mariupol. Some sources report the beginning of the assault.
16:31 Russian soldiers do not enter Mariupol, but Ukrainian troops are now blocking the exit of the population from the city along the gum corridors, Basurin says.
15:50 The TV tower in Kharkiv set off after the Kiev and Lisichanskaya ones.
15:40 The governor of the Nikolaev region said that the Russian Armed Forces do not shoot at civilians, but lure out of the cities the stubborn territorial defense and Nazi. Ukrainian propaganda continues to crumble.
15:27 Commander Semyon Pegov reports that the national battalions are preparing a counterattack in Volnovakha. The nationalist battalion “Donbass” and the remnants of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Volnovakha regrouped and accumulated for counterattack operations. “Sparta” and the 100th brigade are fighting. Occupied lines are not left.
15:14 The media report that fugitive Ukrainians are hiding in the forests near the border of Ukraine and Belarus, fearing the revenge of Bandera.
14:38 Shooting at the Molotov Cocktails production shops and the stronghold of the territorial defense and Azov in the area of the garage cooperative near the Studencheskaya metro station in Kharkiv.
14:27 Ukrainian media report beginning of the forced mobilization of men aged 18 to 60 years. Thus, Zelensky will only increase the flow of refugees and those who voluntarily lay down their arms.
13:58 The Kharkiv military commissariat is hastily burning documentation: personal files, circulars and lists of those mobilized, etc. Staff members have not believed in Ukraine’s victory.
13:54 Shariy announced that the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church if the Moscow Patriarchy has begun, radical elements are intimidating the death of clergy and their families. So far, this situation is aggressive in Volyn. By the way, the UOC really helps people and refugees from other regions. People stop being idiotic.
13:52 Attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces have been spotted near Odessa. Russian troops began to be transferred to the Odessa region.
13:33 Telegram channel Voenkor Kotenok Z reports that in the Donetsk direction there is a possibility that the enemy will sit in their positions for some time and even launch a counterattack. In this regard, our positions are being strengthened. The possibility of a counterattack is indeed present. According to Volnovakha, “from the fields” they report that the settlement is still in a state of “cleansing from Nazis”. In the southern direction, in the Mariupol direction, everything is quite difficult – the enemy snaps.
13:30 Residents of Lisichansk report the impudence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There, the Ukrainian military is hiding behind the backs of the civilian population.” In Lisichansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine locked themselves in the maternity hospital, went into the wards, into the intensive care unit where newborn children were lying in the pump rooms, put a machine gun in the window, and lay down on the bed to rest in the wards. They sleep for three hours in hospitals, schools, kindergartens, said a local resident.
13:20 Social networks report an explosion near the Odessa airport.
13:15 The Sparta unit and the 100th brigade of the DPR People’s Militia continue to clean up Volnovakha. During the assault, the “Spartans” entered into a clash with the national battalion “Donbass”. As a result of the battle, a platoon of Natsiks was destroyed, two were taken prisoner.
13:05 The deputy of Kherson calls on the Ukrainian troops to stop hostilities in order to let the city live in peace: “I urge you to stop shooting, stop opening fire. I urge everyone to start negotiations,” MP Igor Semich.
13:01 Photo from Lisichansk. The explosion of a TV tower leads to cessation of retranslation of the Ukrainian propaganda.
12:50 Kharkiv defense headquarters is destroyed. The main forces of the Nazis suffered critical damage.
12:35 The first foreign mercenaries arrive in Ukraine to participate in hostilities on the side of the Ukrainian militar, media says.
12:06 Ukrainian social networks report that Russian ships are approaching Odessa.
11:25 Volnovakha comes under Russia’s control. Now it’s Mariupol’s turn.
11:20 An artillery school in Sumy is reported to have been destroyed by airstrikes.
11:08 According to media reports, negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Belarus are possible closer to the end of the week.
11:00 The head of the Nikolaev administration Vitaly Kim announced the landing near the village of Balovnoe near the city airport. According to him, 4 Russian helicopters are involved in it.
10:52 A broken checkpoint and destroyed T-64BV of the Ukrainian army in the village of Shiroky in the Luhansk region.
10:11 The city of Kherson is taken under full control – the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
9:50 The head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky wrote that Trostyanets was taken under the control of Russian troops.
9:46 A strike was made on the building of the regional department of the National Police and the SBU in Kharkiv.
9:23 According to local residents, there are street fights in Sumy.
9:18 Mariupol is blocked, said Basurin, a representative of the people’s militia of the DPR. He also said that the DPR hopes that the civilian population will start leaving Mariupol today, Basurin says.
8:55 War correspondent Semyon Pegov spoke about the Mariupol cauldron. He also said that the cleansing of the encircled Volnovakha would continue throughout the day.