UA General Staff: according to available information, the command of the 38 separate assault brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus received an order to cross the border with Ukraine. Instructions how to act further will be made after crossing the border
UA General Staff:
- Kyiv: the enemy has no success in its advancement. The enemy shells residential areas in southwestern outskirts of the city.
- “Mariupol remains an example of heroic resistance to the Russian invasion.”
- Volyn direction; Chernichiv — Ukraine holds the line.
- On the south:
- One task is to prevent enemy’s breakthrough in the area of Kherson and Mykolayiv.
- Armed Forces of Ukraine are covering part of the sea coast [from Russian landing].
UA General Staff:
- In Slobozhanshchyna, Russians are pushing forward notwithstanding heavy casualties.
- The enemy forms marching companies in the temporarily occupied (since 2014) territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. They then will be urgently deployed to attack Kharkiv
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It’s not only Ukrainians. Russians moms pay terrible price for Putin’s dreams of empire.
A mother of a Russian soldier Maxim Khanygin, killed in action in Ukraine speaks.
V Charter97.
TRANSCRIPT
I am horrified. Everybody is horrified. Everybody is shocked. All the friends refuse to believe he died. They all say “He is such a strong lad. We can’t believe it.”
He called on February 23rd. He told they were going for a drills. He told they took a phone away from him, “Mom, I will call you at first opportunity of communication.”
The overwhelming majority of captured Russians either deny they knew where they were heading or say whatever out of fear.
Artsiom, artilleryman from Ulan-Ude is one of few exceptions who seems to actually get it.
Video message from Artsiom to his wife.
TRANSCRIPT
Video Unian
Actually, it was a mistake that I did not refuse back then from all of this, although we were thinking about it.
What has happened now… The things which I saw here… [sobbing] Children die… This is not a joke. Strikes…
I would never want…something like that for my children.
That’s why. Forgive me [breaks into tears]. Just live the life as usual. Just I want everything to be fine. I want this – what I saw and what is still ongoing here in Ukraine – never happen again.
Ukrainian President Office:
- Enemy’s advancement near Kyiv and Chernohiv are stalled.
- “Kharkiv is Staligrand of the 21st century”. Charkiv residential areas are under heavy bombardment. The enemy suffers immense losses.
- Ukrainian forces pushed back and made a small advancement on the eastern direction and entered into the territory which is under Russia-controlled separatists rule since 2014.
- Mariupol — “situation under control”
- Kherson — street fights are ongoing.
- Milkolaiv — Russian airborne troops landed there.
- Energodar — Russians reached city outskirts.
- Big enemy columns were destroyed near Kriviy Rih and near Bashtanovka (Mikolaiv direction)
Dear inhabitants of Kharkiv. We have endured a very difficult day today.
You know. Today has showed that it not just a war. This is a killing of us, People of Ukraine.
For the first time in many years Kharkiv went through this. Shells which hit residential buildings, killed and crippled innocent civilians.
Kharkiv did not see such destructions ever in the recent history. And this is terrible.
37 wounded only for this day. 3 of them are children
People went out. 4 people. They went out of bomb shelter to get water and lost their lives.
A family. 2 adults and 3 children. They were burned alive in a car. This is indeed terrifying.
We are together. We have to endure this. We are together. We have to become stronger.