🔴Operational information by the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces as of 06:00 EET, 15 Mar. 2022:
🔸The 20th day of the heroic resistance of the 🇺🇦 people to the 🇷🇺 military invasion began
🔸Status, position, nature of the defense forces' actions saw no significant changes
🔸The Armed Forces of Ukraine are inflicting devastating blows on groups of troops and the rear infrastructure of the occupiers.
- General Staff
🔸During the past 24hrs, a group of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down the enemy's 4 helicopters, one plane, and a 🇺🇦fighter jet hit the enemy's cruise missile.
- General Staff
🔸The groups of the invading forces involved in the offensive didn't have significant success in all areas of advance, focusing their main efforts on maintaining the occupied borders.
- General Staff
🔸The enemy continues to launch missile and bomb attacks on 🇺🇦critical infrastructure. Uses a network of health care facilities in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to treat wounded personnel.
- General Staff
🔸Also, the invaders continue to insidiously use civilian infrastructure to equip firing positions, deploy weapons and military equipment.
- General Staff
🔸The available data shows that due to the inability to maintain the functioning of institutions and organizations ensuring the livelihood of settlements in the temporarily occupied territories of ORDLO, the occupiers are forced to suspend the mobilization of utility workers.
(ORDLO - "certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts" - is the Ukrainian and international official designation of the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts which Russia call "LNR" and "DNR," - Ed.)
🔸The moral and psychological condition of the enemy remains low, which leads to the refusal of servicemen of 🇷🇺 Armed Forces to carry out the orders of the command.
- General Staff
Also, according to available information, mobilized residents from the occupied territory of some districts of Luhansk Oblast are sent to replenish the losses of active units of the Russian occupation forces involved in hostilities in Ukraine.
- General Staff
🔸The enemy has tried to capture Mariupol. 🇺🇦soldiers successfully repulsed the attacks of the invaders. The enemy's total losses amounted to abt 150 people, 2 tanks, 7 IFVs, 1 APC. Having suffered from losses, the occupiers stopped the offensive and retreated
- General Staff
🔸Artillery and aircraft inflicted fire damage on the amassed military equipment and enemy columns on the advance routes. The available information shows that the artillery fire resulted in the destruction of 12 units of motor vehicles.
- General Staff
🔸The battalion tactical groups of the 🇷🇺 336th Separate Marine Brigade and the 11th Separate Assault Brigade also sustained losses.
- General Staff
🔸No signs of preparation for a naval landing operation were found in the Black Sea and Azov operational zones.
🔸Let's win together! Glory to Ukraine!
- General Staff
General Staff's estimation of the Russian losses in Ukraine (Feb.24 - Mar.14).
Infographic: @StratcomCentre
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Zelenskyy in US Congress:
🔹reiterated calls for US to help enforce a no-fly zone in Ukraine
🔹asked to provide fighter aircraft
"Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people. We are asking for a reply to this terror from the whole world."
Speaking in US Congress, Zelenskyy proposes to create new security alliance - United for peace - b/c old institutions don't work
It should be "an Alliance of responsible states" that in 24 h gives sanctions, humanitarian, political support, funds to victims of war & disaster
There should be an international tribunal [for Russia] and it will be...The investigative team of the International Criminal Court, together with our law enforcement officers, are already gathering all the evidence in Ukraine - Zelenskyy bit.ly/3KP6Umq
"The most devastated areas are those that Russian propagandists named the place of people especially close to Russia. This is their "friendship"... 400 educational institutions have been destroyed in Ukraine, 119 in the Donetsk Oblast. 103 children were killed" - Zelenskyy
"The Russian state has become an outspoken terrorist and it is not ashamed... Without the recognition of Russia as a terrorist state, it will be impossible to restore justice to Ukraine, it will be impossible to restore international order," - Zelenskyy bit.ly/3KP6Umq
Ukraine could agree to what Russians call "neutral status" but according to the Ukrainian model. That means legally verified security guarantees: in case of war signatories provide weapons and air defense immediately without bureaucratic procedures or conditions, - UA Negotiator
In case of war "the signatories of the guarantees are officially providing immediate supplies of weapons... Ukraine no longer wants to depend on bureaucratic procedures... We need direct and strict guarantees that the sky will be closed," - Podoliak said pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/1…
"Many international organizations created after the WWII don't have impact but only express concern. Ukraine needs a new defense alliance, which must include a country with nuclear weapons like the UK," - Ukrainian Defense Council Secretary said yesterday facebook.com/rnbou/posts/27…
Meanwhile, the humanitarian convoy stayed in occupied Berdyansk for another night "due to non-compliance with the ceasefire regime by Russian troops," according to the Mariupol City Council.
12:00 EET: In Mykolayiv and Kryvyy Rih directions, Russian troops have been stopped but continue systematic air bombing on the military and civilians, using high-ammunition, classified by intern.humanitarian law as a war crime,–General Staff of Ukraine facebook.com/MinistryofDefe…
In the Volyn direction, Russian troops continue strengthing 🇧🇾-🇺🇦 border protection by units of the Belarus army and conducts air reconnaissance of certain areas along the State border.–General Staff of UA, as of 12:00 EET
Russian forces are trying to gain a foothold in Bucha and Irpin. Regrouping is carried out to resume the offensive in the direction of Kyiv.–Gen.Staff.
However, acc to Kyiv Obl. Mil.Adm.Head, Russia would need to bring all its troops to Kyiv to capture it nv.ua/ukr/amp/voyna-…