Timeline: day 7 of Ukraine's defense against Russian aggression
Today, March 2, and for the seventh day in a row, Russia's military attack on Ukraine continues. We're telling about all the current news. The article will be constantly updated.
What happened yesterday?
Russia has already lost 5,840 personnel, 862 armored vehicles, 355 vehicles, 211 tanks, 85 artillery systems, 60 fuel tanks, 40 multiple rocket missile systems, 31 helicopters, 30 aircraft, 9 air defenses, 3 UAVs of tactical level, 2 light speed boats.
What today?
Key things
Ukrainian ombudswoman Liudmila Denisova said that as of 1 p.m. on March 2, the Russian occupier continued to use heavy weapons and destroy civilians. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the analysis of information from various sources, 21 children have died and 55 children have been injured. In the evening, it became known that the UN General Assembly at a meeting on March 2 adopted a resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
There are reports that fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych is currently in Minsk and the Kremlin is preparing him for a special operation.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy managed to talk to the Prime Minister of Israel; he wrote it on Twitter but didn't provide more details.
Bye-bye America. The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine is working with international partners, its goal is to achieve complete infrastructural isolation of Russia. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure on Facebook.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree on the establishment of a Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian and Social Affairs, which will help citizens overcome difficult life circumstances in connection with the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. He also said that "green corridors" will be created in cities where it's especially needed.
Second round of talks
At 4:30 p.m., there was news that a Russian motorcade was already heading to the Belarusian border for talks. Lavrov demanded:
- Ukraine must recognize the "LDPR" within the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
- Ukraine must undergo "demilitarization" according to some "clear" parameters. Russia offers Ukraine an agreement that will ensure the legal rights of all the peoples of this country." That is, it should be considered "denazification." But it is hard to imagine that the Ukrainian delegation would agree to discuss something like this.
- Crimea is part of Russia.
According to Davyd Arakhamia, such demands may follow the ship.
However, the talks did not take place in the evening. They will start on the morning of March 3 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha (Belarus); this was the preliminary information. But Arakhamia denied it and said that the talks would not be in Pushcha, but where, in fact, didn't specify.
Despite the quiet, which was closer to the evening, around nine o'clock, the sirens rang again all over Ukraine.
Ukraine's membership in the EU
Ukraine's application for EU membership has been registered and the review procedure has begun. On average, the application procedure lasts from 3 to 10 years. The European Parliament has recommended that Ukraine be granted EU candidate status.
Industry and energy
Yesterday, the European Commission agreed on Ukraine's emergency accession to the EU energy system. How will it happen? Find out here.
Who will go to Ukraine?
About financial aid, weapons, and volunteers
Recently, Romania, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, Japan, Norway, and Croatia decided to send military aid to Ukraine. So far, Germany has just promised to start supplying weapons. A foreign legion of volunteers has been formed to go to war in Ukraine, in particular from Croatia. We will have anti-tank grenade launchers from Norway, and even more Bayraktars from Turkey. NLAW and Javelin have already arrived to quickly send the occupiers to hell.
New Bayraktars have already arrived in Ukraine and are on combat duty, said Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, and from Sweden, four hundred volunteer fighters rush to us to repel the invaders together.
SWIFT blocking and international community reaction
The UN International Court of Justice has set a date for the first trial against Russia. The first hearing is scheduled for March 7 and 8. This was confirmed by Boris Johnson, who said that 38 countries had passed data on Russian crimes in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court. This is the most numerous appeal in history to the International Criminal Court in connection with the barbaric Russian invasion of Ukraine.
As of today, the European Union has disconnected seven Russian banks from SWIFT! These are VTB, Rossya and Otkrytie, as well as Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, Sovcombank and VEB.
The former head of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan said that under pressure from Russia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan at a confidential level had expressed readiness to provide military assistance to Russia.
A rally was held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) on March 2 to close the skies over Ukraine.
What about Russians?
Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the chairperson of the Office of the President, said that both chambers of the Russian parliament were meeting on March 4. They are expected to impose martial law in Russia. Later in the evening, the media began to report that this information was confirmed by Ukrainian intelligence.
Yesterday Apple stopped selling its equipment in Russia, and today Apple stores in Russia haven't opened. Now the "latest" iPhone model for Russians is the one they have now 🙂
Shares of Sberbank on the London Stock Exchange are worth 1 cent, but these are nothing compared to what the first persons in Russia say. For example, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed that World War III could be nuclear.
In the evening, children who went with their parents to lay flowers near the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow were packed in paddy wagons and kept in the police station all night.
By the way, there will be no more banknotes of dollars and euros from the European Union in Russia.
The apogee of utopianism: survivor of siege Olena Osypova was arrested in St. Petersburg. The almost 77-year-old artist, who was picketing in the square with posters calling for the abandonment of nuclear weapons, was taken by two police officers by the elbows and, probably, according to Russian tradition, taken in a paddy wagon.
What about Belarusians?
And the Belarusians began to block the movement of railways, preventing the movement of military cargo. The civilian population thus complicates the movement of military cargo. This, of course, raises Belarusians in the eyes of Ukrainians, in contrast to their self-proclaimed "president," who promised not to allow troops from his territory into Ukraine. This is the news today: up to thirty fighter jets have violated the airspace of Ukraine, mostly from the Republic of Belarus, and bombed civilians.
Kyiv and region
The night was peaceful in Kyiv, shops and pharmacies opened in the morning, transport and humanitarian headquarters are open.
In the Podilsk direction, the enemy is trying to continue the offensive on the border of Horenychi, Hostomel, Demidov in the direction of Kyiv with the help of 13 battalion tactical groups to block the capital from the northern and north-western directions.
In the Siversk direction, up to 17 battalion tactical groups of the occupying forces, despite the loss of manpower and equipment, continue offensive operations to block Kyiv from the northeast.
The invaders were stopped in the areas of Kozelets, Bobrovytsia, and Makiiv. In the other direction, in the areas of the settlements Svitilnia, Peremoha, and Hostroluchcha, the enemy troops lost their offensive potential. Rescue operations are underway in Irpin, Hostomel Highway. Houses were damaged by enemy shelling.
According to the operative summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers are advancing in the direction of Makariv – Brusyliv – Fastiv, and part of the forces move to Kyiv. On the routes to Malyn and Irpin, they lost the offensive pace, suffered significant losses, and stopped at unfavorable borders. The occupiers are deploying advanced units near Horenychi, Shpytiok, and Petrushkiv. The Russians are setting up field and logistics camps near Borodianka, Katiuzhanka, and Havronshchyna.
18:11 – The Ukrainian military liberated Makariv, Kyiv region, and established itself there, confirmed the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi. And two hours later Makariv was liberated from the occupiers!
In the evening alone, rescuers from the State Emergency Service released 200 people who had been under the rubble in Borodianka for more than two days!
21:32 – Russian troops launched an airstrike on the Southern Railway Station in Kyiv, where thousands of Ukrainian women and children are being evacuated.
- The shell hit near the Ibis Hotel. The station building withstood and suffered minor damage, but the problem may be much greater, as eyewitnesses report that the Russians damaged the heating main near the train station.
- The National Police later determined that the enemy shell had damaged the heating network, the police station building, and nearby shops. A man with a shrapnel wound to the leg was hospitalized.
- According to Ukrzaliznytsia, the Northern Platforms are temporarily closed and will be inspected in the morning. The railway infrastructure is slightly damaged; the contact wire is broken, the movement of passenger trains is not affected.
- The suburban train was also damaged; the windows were broken, it was without passengers.
Zhytomyr
It was fired upon again. Rescuers are currently eliminating the consequences of the shelling.
Kharkiv
Yesterday, 12 trucks with food and drinking water entered the city's logistics centers. Today they will provide the most necessary residential areas.
During the day 112 people were injured and 21 died. Data will be updated.
Local authorities continue to involve civilian and military equipment for the Armed Forces through personal contacts with enterprises in other regions. Yesterday, 7 collectors and one armored Kraz.
Kharkiv Regional State Administration after the shelling, Kharkiv
During the night, SU 25 planes bombed Chuhuiv's positions (Bashkirovka and the airfield), the city of Kharkiv (CHP 5, the tank school on Poltava Way, and the dormitory on Klochkivska). Fires due to the air raid are still being eliminated, shells are detonated.
In the morning, Kharkiv was fired upon again. As of 12:00 in the city, emergency rescue works proceed in administrative buildings after the morning enemy rocket attack of #Kharkiv. So far, 10 people have been rescued from the rubble. Previously 4 dead, 9 injured. There are 21 units of SES equipment and 90 people working on the site. personnel. The work continues.
During the day, the occupiers continue, as yesterday, to attack office buildings. The Russian occupiers hit the building of the Kharkiv City Council with a cruise missile. At the same time, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine confirms the fact that the Kharkiv regional state administration, which was bombed yesterday, was bombed by Russian invaders.
In the afternoon, it was reported that Russia had warned India to evacuate the consulate staff from Kharkiv by 6 pm, in any way possible, even on foot, an Indian journalist says. Most likely, an attack is being prepared.
Kherson
Again fake "help" from the occupiers. In Kherson, unknown individuals on buses are urging people to take to the streets through a loudspeaker. They do it under the guise of free distribution of bread. Regional and local authorities do not hold such actions. This may be a provocation of the occupiers, the head of the Kherson regional state administration states.
The mayor of Kherson Ihor Kolykhaiev asks to help prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. He called for a "green corridor" for the wounded and sick and said there was a shortage of medicine and food in the city.
Sumy
12:10 – In the Sumy region, Bayraktar destroyed the deployment of Grad missile systems and about 100 tanks and armored personnel carriers, the head of the regional state administration Zhyvitskyi says.
Mykolaiv
"They didn't let the orcs sleep all night," said the head of the Mykolayiv Regional State Administration. At night in Mykolaiv the first operation of the offensive, Zyhan, was carried out; equipment was taken away from the enemy, worked off some directions from the city. As a result, "Orcs were offended, they were dragging a landing party, a column from Snihirivka passed."
Odesa
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that the enemy is preparing to land in the Gulf region on the Black Sea. Deploys naval fleet groups on the high seas.
Donetsk and Luhansk regions
Today rescuers from the Donetsk region evacuated Volnovakha residents. On the fourth day, people suffer from endless shelling by Russian invaders. Women, children, and the elderly are in terrible conditions. The city is in a humanitarian catastrophe, but the "Green Corridor" for the evacuation of the population from Volnovakha is not provided. The SES of the Donetsk region together with city volunteers evacuated about 400 people, most of them children.
In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers fired on a dormitory for IDPs from eastern Ukraine. The shelling lasted more than 14 hours. Russian occupiers destroy civilians and kill children. During this time, 42 people were injured, and a maternity hospital and dozens of residential buildings were severely damaged. School and dormitory for IDPs destroyed.
According to the operative summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine today, the enemy seeks to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. They didn't reach the goal, and couldn't block Mariupol.
Yesterday, Horlivka, which has been under the control of the occupiers since 2014, was taken under control by the Ukrainian military. Today, one of the brigades of the Ukrainian army is fortifying itself on the outskirts of Horlivka, Donetsk region, and plans to develop an offensive on the city, the Office of the President assured.
14:17 – After the shelling in the city of Severodonetsk on March 2, 22, the roof of the kindergarten in the kindergarten near 61 Tsentralnyi Avenue was damaged and the heating network was broken. There are about 10 people (8 children) in the basement. Measures are being taken to evacuate them.
