As of 6:00AM on 27 February - General Staff:
🔹Russian occupiers reduced the tempo of offensive
🔹Russian troops face problems with fuel and ammunition, stop on the roads & cities
🔹Majority of occupiers are young conscripts, have low morale #StopRussia facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…
🔹Main tactics of Russian occupiers: capturing small towns, villages& highways.
🔹Due to Ukraine's army & civilian strong resistance, Russian occupiers attempts to take control of large cities were unsuccessful
🔹main goal, to capture Kyiv, remains unfulfilled. #StopRussia
🔹Russians employ sabotage &reconnaissance groups that destroy civilian infrastructure and the population of large cities.
🔹Ignoring rules of international humanitarian law, Russians damaged oil depot in Vasylkiv & destroyed gas pipeline in Kharkiv, damage residential buildings
🔹Russia attempts at psychological warfare include units staffed by Chechen-appearing people with poor knowledge of Russian, sending threats
🔹In last day, Russian occupiers sent ballistic & cruise missiles & aircraft into Kyiv, other cities from occupied Crimea & Belarus
🔹Russian invaders formed a strike group of Russian combat helicopters for damaging critical infrastructure of cities and our troops in Mozyr, Belarus
Residents of Berdiansk, a sea-side city captured by Russian invaders today, are not happy about their supposed "liberation" by Putin.
"Berdiansk is Ukraine," they shout at the Russian occupiers, protesting the invasion.
"Go home, go home" chant the residents of the Ukrainian city of Berdiansk, holding a remarkable protest against the Russian occupation in front of their occupiers, who appear unsure what to do
"My little children R Ukrainians... you R on foreign territory! Go away from me, we don't want your 'peace'! We had peace until you arrived. It was peaceful here, nobody oppressed me, I'm talking in Russian."
A Berdiansk woman takes on the occupation army that entered her city
The Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the area of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border to take part in talks with Russian representatives, the Ukrainian President's Office reports. The key issue of the talks is an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops from Ukraine.
The delegation includes:
- Davyd Arakhamia (SoP faction head)
- Oleksiy Reznikov (Defense Minister)
- Mykhailo Podoliak (presidential office adviser)
- Andriy Kostin (first UA head in TCG)
- MP Rustem Umerov
- Mykola Tochytskyi (deputy FM)
23:50 EET Russian attack to the north of Ukraine generally fails but Russia has some success in the south, in particular, takes control over Berdiansk port city in Azov coast - Presidential Office bit.ly/3HtqS42
23:50 EET 11 Russian landing ships left Crimea, likely in the direction of Odesa. They carry on board 11 battalions, which should be about 7,000 soldiers. Ukrainian forces prepare for defense - Presidential Office bit.ly/3HtqS42
23:50 EET In the north-western direction from Kyiv, Russians stopped their offensive, some groups retreated. Ukrainian army continues to inflict air and artillery strikes. It's quite in Chernihiv and Sumy directions, Kharkiv successfully holds its defense. bit.ly/3HtqS42
‼️Belarus is preparing an air assault on Ukraine! ‼️
Trusted sources in Belarusian opposition journalists inform units of Belarusian special forces prepare paratrooper assault in the Kyiv & Zhytomyr directions
Thus, Belarus is starting an invasion of Ukraine with its own forces
Today, Belarus had already attacked Ukraine: it launched a cruise missile from Belarus territory from TU-22 airplane into Kyiv - 🇺🇦Army Chief Zaluzhnyi reported.
Ukraine air defense shot it down above Troyeshchyna, it destroyed cars
📷 KMDA
Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies confirms information of Belarusian opposition journalists that Lukashenka will join war against Ukraine - UkrPravda
"If Lukashenka dares to take such a step, it will mean use of all forces & means of Belarus Army against Ukrainian defense"
🔹Russia continues aggressive invasion of Ukraine; main efforts focused on N & NE directions with aim to capture Kyiv
🔹In N direction, Units of Russia's 36th General Army moves towards Bucha, Kapitanivka &Bilohorodka facebook.com/MinistryofDefe…
🔹Engineering units moved from Belarus to Chernobyl to repair bridges across Teteriv and Irpin rivers; Ukraine destroyed them up 2d ago to stop reinforcements for occupiers
🔹Occupiers face shortage of fuel & food; military cargo being delivered to them via Belarusian railways
🔹Units of Russia's Central Military District continue to move to Boryspil&Ichnia
🔹Russia relocated a tactical aviation group of Su-34 aircraft from Moscow region to Baranovichi airfield in Belarus
🔹up to 14 BTGs completed regrouping &continue offensive to block KYIV from NE
00:23 EET Ukraine's Special Communications Service published an update from the Armed Forces:
🔻 Kharkiv: the attacks repelled, the city is under Ukraine's control. Many Russian vehicles were destroyed: tanks, armored vehicles, etc. Houses damaged in the city, there are injured
🔻Sumy: the situation is under the control of the defenders of Ukraine. During the day, artillery shelling was recorded, there are casualties. The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed a column of enemy vehicles with fuel, and two Russians were taken prisoner
🔻 Luhansk Oblast: enemy attempts continue to capture settlements, moving from Russia's Belgorod to Ukraine's Starobilsk. The Russians didn't manage to reach the border of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, the Ukrainian army has a strong defense.