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
Those having nobody to bury them lie on Mariupol streets until the utility workers take them away and bury them in mass graves. Multiple houses were destroyed, people are hiding in bomb shelters and religious buildings, but the enemy is also shelling these buildings. - @Polk_Azov
"If the Ukrainian troops don't relieve the siege of the city in the near future, then a famine will begin in Mariupol, and the genocide of Ukrainians devised by Russians will be completed." - @Polk_Azov
🔴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"
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
🇷🇺 attempts to encircle major cities continue without much success, strikev at coastal citiesfrom warships in the Black Sea are possible. 🇷🇺 losses, estimated at around 10-11,000, are much worse than in Afghanistan, where 🇷🇺 lost 15,000 troops in 9 years euromaidanpress.com/2022/03/09/war…
According to British Defence Intelligence, Ukrainian air defenses appear to have enjoyed considerable success against Russian modern combat aircraft, probably preventing them from achieving any degree of control of the air.