8:01 EET Air strike at Kharkiv city center where Oblast Administration is located. Very likely civillians were killed.
Inside Kharkiv Oblast Administration after the air strike in the morning of 1 March. Source: bit.ly/36KzvKV
"After the attack on Freedom Square in Kharkiv, Russia is a terrorist state.
Kharkiv and Belgorod were close cities in many senses–but all changed after missile hit from there. There was no military object there. It's open terror"–Zelenskyy, 12:30 EET facebook.com/president.gov.…
13:20 EET: 10 people were killed and more than 20 were injured in Kharkiv. For now, volunteers rescued 10 people from the rubble. Work is underway.–State Emergency Service informs facebook.com/MNS.GOV.UA/vid…
Photos taken immediately after Russia's cruise missile attack on Kharkiv.
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.@NSDC_ua Secretary Oleksiy Danilov: key points from his speech at the ongoing TV marathon, as informs Center on Countering Disinformation (via FB/@uacrisis):
🔘 Putin's inner circle is convinced that he is insane
🔘 Troops of Belarus transferred to maximum alert
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🔘 Horlivka is a Ukrainian city. We take ours.
🔘 Everything is done according to the plan that is in our structures. If the enemy thinks that we will only defend ourselves, they are wrong. - Danilov
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🔘 The occupiers do not understand where they are and are disoriented, frightened, and without fuel. They just want to get home.
🔘 Our people will come out and defend our country. - Danilov
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"We are working on the initiative to bring Russia to justice for its crimes during the aggression... Sanctions must be systemic, so we talked to the EU and the fourth package of sanctions is already at work..." UkrainianMFA Kuleba on current diplomacy bit.ly/3tgL9oo
"Russia has found 3 countries with which it is working to create alternative business and financial systems [bypassing sanctions]. We know these countries, how they want to make money on Ukrainian blood and we work" Ukrainian MFA Kuleba bit.ly/3tgL9oo
"Weapons are coming... There are some problematic issues, but we will solve... Problematic only because what we are asking is technically large, requires additional decisions... Ukrainian diplomacy will get everything that defenders need" - MFA Kuleba bit.ly/3tgL9oo
City, where the largest NPP in Europe is located, is preparing for battle. Russian army pushed towards Energodar.–City Mayor, 11pm web.telegram.org/z/#-1659159251
National Guard of Ukraine guards the NPP and city. The battles would be very dangerous there. Locals are blocking the road.
"Russian generals, do not create conditions for new Chernobyl! Radiation doesn't know nationalities"–Ua MIA advisor:
"Shells will lay down next to the nuclear power plant. They will not break through reactor but definitely damage safety equipment" facebook.com/anton.gerashch… *11am
17:26 EET People blocking the entrance to Enerhodar for Russian troops where nuclear power plant stays guarded by the National Guard. In the neighboring village Russian troops already injured two civilians t.me/orlovdmytroEn/…
10.30 EET. Mykolayiv is encircled, braces for Russian landing & siege. All who can take up arms should come to defend the city, others should hide in shelters - Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych
CORRECTION: Mykolayiv is not encircled, but Russian group landed from four helicopters, along with some other groups advancing by land. The fight is ongoing, military works, Oblast Head reports - t.me/mykolaivskaODA…
Mykolayiv, more information from the city mayor: Russian troops are 10 km from the city near Kalynivka, where Ukrainian military meets them. Aviation comes from Crimea. The fighting is to define the situation in the city - fb.watch/buWPuaJqwu/
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports:
🟡 The Ukrainian Defenders in the Northern Region continue to conduct defensive battles on the occupied frontiers, with the task of preventing the enemy from advancing in the directions of the settlements of Kipty and Nizhyn.
🟡 Part of the Ukrainian forces continues to defend Chernihiv, conducts fire at the enemy using all available means, and prevents the enemy from wedging into the city boundaries.
🟡 In Slobozhanshchyna (i.e. Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts) units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct defensive battles on the occupied frontiers, inflict losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment, and capture prisoners.
Just now Russian troops hit the Kyiv TV tower.
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Kyivans report the loss of the TV signal.
"For a while, the channels won't work. In the near future, the backup broadcast of some channels will be switched on," the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.