18:36 One of the most powerful units of the AFU, the artillery howitzer division (hr A-2611) of the 406th Independent Artillery Brigade of the Marine Infantry, escaped from its Berdyansk location just before the Russian Armed Forces entered the city. Msta-B howitzers, fuel and lubricants and military equipment were left on the outskirts of Berdyansk, and even full plates of lunch were left in the barracks.
17:06 According to tg channels, an airfield near Kryvyi Rih has been hit.
16:56 Two missiles hit an airport in Lozovatka, Krivoy Rog district, Dnipropetrovsk region, media reports say.
15:56 Media reports that 44 evacuation buses with around 2,000 people on board have left Izyum.
15:10 Important information on Kharkiv. An AFU D-30 howitzer has been installed in the Rogan neighbourhood (southeast of Kharkiv), in an industrial zone. On March 9 and in the night from 9 to 10, the howitzer was firing at Solnechny microdistrict (right on the Kharkiv circle road). It is not clear why this was done, there are no RF Armed Forces in the area.
15:07 Kharkiv residents are outraged that the ukrainian military is using them as human shields.
14:12 A maternity hospital in Mariupol was used as a base for the Azov battalion. Russia presented data on this to the UN a few days ago – Lavrov.
13:19 We don’t want the militarization of Ukraine, we don’t want the trend of building a neo-Nazi state in Ukraine to continue. We want Ukraine to be neutral, we are ready to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine together with security guarantees for European countries and Russia – Lavrov
13:15 A maternity hospital in Mariupol has been seized by the Azov battalion, it was their base, all women in labour were kicked out of there. These facts were presented three days ago. You can draw your own conclusions – Lavrov.
13:07 Russian operation in Ukraine goes according to plan – Lavrov.
13:05 Military correspondent Kotenok Z reports that one of the SBU buildings in Chuguev has been demilitarized, turned into a breeding ground for Ukrainian nazis and a gathering place for the terrorist element.
In the Kharkiv suburb of Lyubotin, artillery of the Russian Armed Forces struck at an MLRS battery of Ukrainian nazis that (attention!) was shelling central and northeastern areas of Kharkiv, passing off these actions as strikes by the Russian army.
13:00 Russian soldiers continue to identify representatives of territorial defence (https://t.me/journalist_lnr/1029) in Ivankiv. In most cases, they are drug addicts and former prisoners. One of the detained nationalists, says that the Ukrainian military forbids residents to leave their settlements, even for the purpose of evacuation. Civilians are real hostages in the hands of nationalist groups, which directly threatens their security.
12:19 Telegram channel “Friends of Major Selivanov” writes that a sweep has begun in Kiev of everyone who is listed by the SBU as unreliable, i.e. pro-Russian. This includes several thousand people, not counting their family members. Employees of the Ukrgestapo-SSBU break into flats and houses in the morning and take people away to an unknown destination. Real Gestapo agents.
12:14 Peskov on question about handing out weapons to everyone in Ukraine: If anyone attacks the Russian military with weapons in their hands, they will also become a target.
11:17 A total of 2,911 Ukrainian military infrastructure destroyed during the operation – Russian Defence Ministry.
11:11 Media reports that Right Sector’s Russophobe Yashka Tsygankov has been killed in battles in Izyum near Kharkiv.
11:08 Ukrainian deputy prime minister Vereshchuk says humanitarian corridors open
Trostyanets – Poltava;
Krasnopolye – Poltava;
Sumy – Poltava;
Mariupol – Zaporizhzhya;
Volnovakha – Pokrovsk;
Izyum – Lozovaya;
Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpen, Gostomel – Kiev.
10:28 A source from the AFU General Staff has reported that the territorial defence battalions in Kharkiv are suffering serious losses without even engaging in combat. The command staff as well as heavy weaponry of the territorial battalions have practically been knocked out in a few days.
10:18 “They are huddled and sitting in their houses. They are waiting for the column to come. They are sitting in peaceful houses.” The commander of our RF APC tells in his own words how the Ukrainian Volkssturm works against them.
8:20 A Russian plane strikes one of the Ukrainian army’s military facilities near a bridge near the Teterev River in Zhytomyr region.
8:13 Media report that Crimea has rebuilt a railway line to Kherson Oblast, which had been dismantled by Ukrainian nationalists, with the prospect of a full passenger service resuming.
8:00 Zelensky passes law allowing all people in Ukraine to kill Russians.