🔴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
🔻 Southern axis: Ukrainian troops have been holding back the enemy at the directions of Kryvyi Rih, Mykolayiv, Voznesensk, and the settlement of Novovorontsovka in Kherson Oblast.
- General Staff
🔻 Units of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repel missile and bomb strikes and destroy the planes of the invaders, providing air cover for important facilities of Ukraine and groups of troops.
- General Staff
🔻 In two days, Ukrainian fighter jets and anti-aircraft missile units destroyed four Russian Su-25 attack aircraft and two enemy helicopters.
- General Staff
🔻 Russia has slowed down its offensive, its personnel has low morale. The number of cases of desertion and looting has increased.
- General Staff
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⚡Russian occupiers will conduct air strikes on Belarusian territory bordering Ukraine to draw the country into the war against Ukraine, Defense Minister Reznikov says.
He says strikes will be made from Ukraine's airspace, target includes Kopani, Stolin district, Brest Oblast
⚡Ukraine's Air Force Command c says Russian planes struck Belarus from Ukrainian airspace
Acc. to border guards, Russian planes flew out from Dubrovitsa (🇧🇾) turned around over Ukraine's Horodyshche&Tumen, after which they struck Kopani, on the territory ofBelarus
⚡Ukraine's MoD reports Russian planes bombed more Belarusian settlements: Bukhlychi and Verkhniy Terebezh
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the preparation of a terrorist attack on the Chornobyl nuclear power plant to blame Ukraine, Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence says.
The invaders were spotted collecting the bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers near Hostomel. Ukraine's intel suggests that Russia can use them to imitate Ukraine's involvement in the plotted Chornobyl accident.
Since the beginning of the invasion, the Chornobyl NPP has been captured by the Russian troops which invaded Ukraine from the Belarusian territory.
Ukraine to pay $ 1 million for any captured or stolen plane of the Russian Air Force, additionally, promises Ukrainian citizenship to Russian pilots who'd hand over their planes to Ukraine, Zmina.info reports, citing MP Davyd Arakhamia.
Also, Ukraine offers $500,000 for any captured Russian helicopter in working condition.
According to the decision of Yuriy Husev, CEO of the state defense corporation "Ukroboronprom," his organization is ready to pay these bounties for the stolen combat aircraft of the invades, says Ukraine's Ministry of Defense.
The Russians have hit the Oskil psychoneurological residential institution in Kharkiv Oblast. "73 people were evacuated to the neighboring boarding school, at the time of the enemy's attack 330 remained there," reported Kharkiv Oblast's head Oleh Synehubov.
The number of the injured in Oskil is unknown at the moment. Mr. Synehubov says that among 330 remaining residents of the facility 50 are sedentary, 10 are wheelchair users.
A shell hit a five-storey building of the Oskil psychoneurological residential institution, Kharkiv Oblast, ruining structures at storeys 2 and 3 and causing fire, 330 patients and 30 staff were at the shelter at the moment and no one was injured, the Emergency Service reports.
🔴Operational information by Ukraine army's General Staff as of 06:00, 11 March 2022 regarding the #russian_invasion
🔻 The sixteenth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion has begun.
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🔻Ukraine's defense forces are repelling and holding back the offensive of the Russian armed forces in all directions.
🔻There have been no significant changes in the position of our troops and enemy troops in the last six hours.
🔻Aggressive Russian propaganda has started to work actively in the temporarily occupied territories. By spreading pro-Russian narratives, the occupiers are trying to reach an agreement with the local population.
"No chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction were developed on my land. The whole world knows that. You know that. And if Russia does something like that against us, it will get the most severe sanctions response" - Zelenskyy
🔺Via the humanitarian corridors from several cities Ukraine recently evacuated about 100,000 people. - Zelenskyi in his address
🔺The invaders have been deliberately blocking the delivery of humanitarian supplies and isolating people from truthful information in Volnovakha and Mariupol. - Zelenskyi