🔻Key points from the 06:00 EET report by General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
▶️N/NW axes: hostilities continue in the Polissya & Volyn operational districts, & along Ukraine's border, & in Nizhyn, Ivanytsia, Trostyanets, the defense of Chernihiv continues.
The Kyiv defense group repulses the enemy's offensive, inflicts fire damage on its offensive group, and firmly holds certain boundaries. - General Staff
▶️Southern axis: operational groups of the defense forces cover the state border of Ukraine and the sea coast, protect & defend airfields and critical infrastructure. - General Staff
▶️In other areas, groups of troops are conducting a stabilization operation and performing territorial defense tasks. - General Staff
🔵The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repels missile and bomb strikes and destroys the means of air attack of the occupiers, providing air cover for important infrastructure facilities of Ukraine and military groups. - General Staff
🔵Due to numerous casualties, Russia intensified recruiting of volunteers & continues its covert mobilization under the guise of training in temporarily occupied Crimea, some districts of Donetsk & Luhansk oblasts, Russia's Krasnodar Krai. - General Staff
🔵In addition, there were cases of expulsion of young men of conscription age from higher educational institutions of Russia in order to replenish the reserve of the army of invaders. - General Staff
🔵Russia doesn't rule out the possibility of engaging up to 800 servicemen of Moldova's unrecognized Transnistrian Republic in the war with Ukraine, but the moral and psychological condition of these personnel remains low. - General Staff
🔵Berdyansk, Zaporizhia Obl.: the enemy began to distribute propaganda materials aimed at discrediting the military and political leadership of Ukraine. - General Staff
🔵Occupied settlements in Chernihiv Obl: Russia hides weapons & mil equipment among residential buildings & agricultural premises, uses local medical facilities to provide medical care to its wounded personnel, dismantles the cell towers. - General Staff
🔵Kherson area: Russian servicemen wearing civilian clothes were revealed moving towards the city of Mykolayiv.
🔵"According to the available information, panic is spreading among the occupying forces' personnel due to the huge losses in manpower & equipment." - General Staff
Note that Ukraine's General Staff uses historic region names to designate areas larger than oblasts, e.g. the historic Volyn included not only the modern Volyn Oblast, but also Rivne Oblast and parts of Zhytomyr Oblast
🔴4 Russian Su-25 attack aircraft and 2 helicopters were destroyed. The defense of Mariupol continues.
Key points of the update by Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces as of 6:00, Mar. 10:
🔻 The main efforts of Ukraine's Armed Forces are focused on preventing the movement of the invaders on the south-eastern axis. The circular defense of Mariupol continues. At the same time, the defense on the state border with Belarus has been strengthened.
- General Staff
🔻Sivershchyna: Ukrainian defenders are defending Chernihiv. The enemy is also being held back on the Kyiv axis.
- General Staff
🔻General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's operational information as of 9 March 2022, 24:00
🔵Ukraine's defense forces have been repelling and holding back the offensive of the Russian armed forces on all fronts.
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In some of the axes, the invading forces lost their combat capability and put reserves into operation. In order to increase its combat capabilities, the enemy moves combined forces and military units from other strategic axes to the borders of Ukraine. - General Staff
🔵The Republic of Belarus provides support to the invader by ensuring the supply of fuel and lubricants, the use of railway infrastructure, and its airfield network.
- General Staff
15:31 EET 🇷🇺 invaders fully destroyed children's hospital via airstrike, city adminstr reports. # of victims is clarified
"How much longer will world be an accomplice ignoring terror?Close the sky right now! Stop killings! You have power but seem to lose humanity" -@ZelenskyyUa
@ZelenskyyUa 17 people were injured, including hospital staff & mothers, in Russia's air strike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol on 9 March - Donetsk Oblast Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko.
The hospital has been completely destroyed.
📷 Yevheniy Maloletka
@ZelenskyyUa Speaking at press conference in Turkey, Lavrov confirmed Russia had deliberately bombed a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
"It was captured by Azov battalion & other radicals, they purged all the doctors & patients from it"
Today is the 14th day of the Mariupol defense from the Russian invasion. From 1 March, the city is fully encircled. - @Polk_Azov
The Russian troops are ruthlessly destroying both the city of Mariupol and its inhabitants with artillery and airstrikes. There is no electricity, water, gas, or communications due to the shelling. - @Polk_Azov
The invaders don't let humanitarian convoys into the city, civilians can't get out of the city. Mariupol's on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. People collect rainwater for drinking, prepare food on fire outdoors, bury the dead neighbors just in the yards. - @Polk_Azov
As a result of Russia's hostile actions, the decommissioned Chornobyl NPP has been completely cut from power, the city of Slavutych is also without electricity, Ukrenergo reports. "The ongoing fighting makes it impossible to repair and restore power," according to the report.
Ukraine's NPP operator Energoatom on the Chornobyl NPP blackout:
🔻About 20,000 exhausted fuel assemblies are stored at the worked-out nuclear fuel storage facility-1, needing constant cooling, which is impossible without electricity;
🔻Without cooling, the temperature in the holding pools will increase, risking to release radioactive materials into the environment;
🔻Wind can transfer a radioactive cloud to other regions of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Europe;
- Energoatom
▪️ The occupation contingent has already brought to our territory almost everyone who was gathered to invade Ukraine. - President Zelneskyy in his video address.
▪️ Yesterday we finally managed to organize a humanitarian corridor from the city of Sumy to Poltava. 1,600 students and 3,500 residents were rescued. - Zelenskyy
▪️ Our military, our terrdefense were able to replenish the arsenal of our equipment at the expense of multiple trophies of war that were captured on the battlefield: enemy tanks, armored vehicles, ammunition will now work for our defense. - Zelenskyy