18:00 EET Russian units that tried to advance from the Ukrainian rear near Izium in Donbas lost 30 percent of personnel and equipment. Ukrainian forces liquidated the commander of the 3rd infantry division colonel Igor Nikolaev - General Staff facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…
18:00 EET Russian army used almost the entire set of cruise missiles "Caliber" and missiles "Iskander." They continue strikes on infrastructure and housing using indiscriminate weapons - General Staff
18:00 EET Russian invaders continue taking hostages and killing civilians. In addition to units of the Russian armed forces in Kherson, police officers from the Krasnodar Krai and the Russian-occupied Crimea were noticed. FSB forces perform punitive functions - General Staff
18:00 EET Russian aviation units of the 960th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 4th Army suffered significant losses. Russian pilots started filing dismissal reports due to the unwillingness to continue the fight on the territory of Ukraine - General Staff facebook.com/GeneralStaff.u…
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🔻On 19 March, Ukrainian air defenses shot down three Russian helicopters, according to General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
🔸On 19 March, the Russian troops didn't conduct active offensive operations, and Ukraine's defense forces didn't significantly change their "state, position, and nature of the actions," the General Staff says in its report as of 06:00 EET, 20 March.
🔸Russian handlers of the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast announced another wave of mobilization among locals, raising the mobilization age to 65 years. - Gen.Staff.
Russian occupiers dropped a heavy bomb on the Mariupol Drama Theater, which sheltered up to a thousand civilians escaping the shelling, refugees that lost their homes, Polk Azov says.
Prior to the bombing, 🇷🇺 media started claiming it was used as a military base
📷Ukraine's MIA
Here is the Mariupol Drama Theater before it was bombed by Russian troops. Up to a thousand civilians found refuge in its bomb shelter, which is now buried under rubble
📷Andriy Tsaplienko
The theater in Mariupol had "children" written in large print near the premises, MAXAR satellite imagery shows.
Today, Russian occupying troops dropped a heavy bomb on the building, which reportedly sheltered up to a thousand civilians
"Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of 7 Dec1941, when your sky was black from planes attacking you, &11 Sept 2001, when innocent people were attacked... Our country experiences the same, every day, right now at this moment"
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…
🔴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