During the day, the aggressor's troops regrouped and accumulated armored vehicles and missile and artillery weapons in certain areas, primarily to surround and capture Kyiv and major cities of Ukraine, including #Kharkiv, #Chernihiv, #Odesa, #Kherson and #Mariupol.
A significant part of military equipment comes from the territory of #Belarus and through the occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of #Crimea. #SanctionsBelarusNow
Some units of the most combat-ready units of the Belarusian AF have begun moving to the State Border of Ukraine in the #Volyn direction. In addition, 🇧🇾territory continues to be used for combat sorties of army, operational, tactical and special aircraft of the RF Armed Forces.
The planes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation resumed conducting air reconnaissance of objects on the territory of Ukraine from the airspace of the Republic of #Belarus.
The enemy, losing offensive potential, loses with it the human face. Numerous cases of violations of the laws of war and international humanitarian law by the Russian aggressor have been recorded along the entire offensive line.
The most common war crimes of the Russian occupiers: the use of weapons against civilians, bombing, rocket and artillery shelling of residential areas, which led to the destruction of civilian infrastructure. The enemy, for cover, uses state symbols and uniforms of the UA forces.
Ukrainian flags are hung on columns of Russian military equipment. Such cases have been observed in the settlements of Peremoha, Nova Basan, Kyiv region, and on the Krasnostav-Nizhyn highway in the Chernihiv region.
During the advance of a line of tanks and armored personnel carriers, the aggressor fired on the homes of local residents in the Chernihiv region, from Talalaivka to Nizhyn.
Tanks from the Russian occupation forces on their way through the village of Borodyanka, on the orders of their commanders, began to deliberately destroy infrastructure and housing, and a separate group of tanks opened chaotic fire on high-rise buildings.
In addition, there have been cases where the enemy hangs a white flag on his vehicle, ostensibly to surrender. However, after approaching the Ukrainian positions, the occupiers began to open fire on the defeats.
According to the available information, the commanders of the Russian tactical groups received an order to destroy the mobile communication towers in the course of advancing deep into the territory of Ukraine.
All this indicates that the Russian occupiers are terrified, because they did not receive any bread and salt promised by the propagandists. They received only the hatred and contempt of the civilian population and a worthy repulse of the Ukrainian army. #UkraineWillPrevail
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🔴 At approximately 19:10, as a result of a missile strike on #Vasylkiv, #BilaTserkva, and #Kalynivka, occupants destroyed the village's five-story dormitory and two five-story residential buildings
🔴 As of 20:30, a rocket attack in #BilaTserkva destroyed a three-story dormitory. Rescuers saved two people. According to preliminary data, another person is under the rubble.
❗️Update on the #Zmiinyi (Snake) Island's defenders: they are alive❗️
Public Relations Service of the Command of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports: the defenders of Zmiinyi Island, who were presumed dead earlier, were captured by Russia.
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On February 26, information was received that Ukrainian border guards and marines could be killed and wounded on #Zmiinyi Island. A civilian ship was sent to the island to carry out a humanitarian mission.
The ship was captured by the Russians. The illegal seizure of a non-combatant civilian ship that did not carry out any military tasks is a violation of the rules and customs of war and international humanitarian law.
▪ Ukraine Air Forces intercepted enemy's assault and transport military planes in the sky over Kyiv.
▪ Ukrainian Navy prevented a landing operation in the Chernomorsk operation zone.
▪ The operation of Joint Forces has continued the active mobile search-and-destroy operations in the corresponding region throughout the day, transitioning to maneuvering actions.
❗ Russian propaganda spreads fake stories about the Ukrainian soldiers that died heroically by refusing to surrender on Zmiinyi Island
After invaders warned that this is a Russian ship and Ukrainian soldiers will be bombed if they didn’t surrender, they were told “F*ck off, Russian ship”. The phrase rapidly becomes one of the slogans of resistance in Ukraine 🇺🇦
🔺 Russia lies that took them as prisoners and used the same actors on different videos of Russian state TV channels
🔴(THREAD) The Russian occupant’s forces use methods that VIOLATE the rules of war. They attack the objects of civilian infrastructure which causes death and injuries of civilians including children and can have regional and even global effects.
🇺🇦 NEEDS THE MOST FROM NATO, and that is a #NoFlyZone over Ukraine. The war crimes like these have to stop! 👇
🔥 Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Vadym Denisenko said that 2 children had died during the first day of the Russian attack. Acc. to 🇺🇦 parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova, 3 children died on the second day of the attacks from 🇷🇺
⚡️In his address, #Putin has not just formally announced the decision, but also:
📍portrayed #Ukraine as a historical mistake with no tradition or right to sovereignty, claiming that it was, in full, “created by the USSR” and “Lenin was an architect of Ukraine” (more below)
📍threatened #Ukraine with “showing real decommunization”, hinting attack on its existence as it rejects the Soviet legacy;
📍promoted the image of Ukraine as a “failed state” under colonizing “external governance”;
📍insisted #Ukraine poses a military and terrorist threat against #Russia, particularly in #Crimea;
📍repeated the message about #NATO "deploying military bases in Ukraine" to threaten Russia;
📍positioned Ukraine's intention to join NATO as a "direct threat to Russian security";