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Mar 3 • 9 tweets • 2 min read

Key takeaways from the morning report by General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

⚪️The occupying forces, having failed in almost all areas in which they were advancing, resorted to tactics of night shelling of residential areas of large cities.

⚪️Volyn axis: the enemy continues to hold demonstrations in Belarus along Ukraine's state border.
- Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Polissya axis (N-NW): the enemy is trying to carry out offensive operations in the area of Kozarovychi, Vyshhorod, Fastiv, Obukhiv. Further deployment of field logistics camps was noted in the Borodyanka, Katyuzhanka, Havronshchyna areas. - Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Sivershchyna axis (N-NE): Unsuccessful with the cities of Chernihiv, Nizhyn, Sumy, Lebedyn, Okhtyrka, the Russian forces are trying to avoid clashes with the Ukrainian army and try to reach the northern outskirts of Kyiv. - Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Sloboda Ukraine axis: Russia carries out an offensive operation in the areas of Zolochiv, Kharkiv, Balakliya, attempts to continue the offensive in the Lozova direction, catastrophically needs replenishment of lost equipment & personnel.
- Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Donetsk axis: Russia's 1st & 2nd Army Corps continue their offensive operations in the areas of Novy Aidar, Volnovakha, Mariupol. The enemy's main goals - capturing Mariupol & reaching the Donetsk/Luhansk oblasts' admin. borders - aren't achieved.
- Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Tavriya axis: Russian troops don't abandon attempts to conduct an offensive operation. After regrouping and introducing a part of operational reserves, they focused their effort on the axis of Mykolayiv - Voznesensk.
- Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Black Sea Operational Zone: naval groups of Russia's Black Sea Fleet continue to fire on civilian ships and capture sailors.
- Ukraine army's General Staff

⚪️Kyiv and other cities are suffering from Russian missile strikes. Social media, news sites often comment in real-time on the enemy strike's consequences and accuracy.
Ukraine army's General Staff urges, "Be careful when disseminating information about shelling in real-time"

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