What’s happening in Ukraine: updating in real-time

16:10 – Russian occupation forces tried to break through the defenses. Fighting continues along the entire line of contact. No breakthrough. Now intense battles are going on in the area of the settlement of Pishchevyk. Russian occupation forces tried to break through the defenses by using 16 tanks. Allied forces used NLAW ATGM. Three enemy tanks were destroyed.

16:01 – Ukraine asks its international partners to follow its example and sever diplomatic relations with the aggressor. The foreign minister: "Ukraine has severed diplomatic relations with Russia. I call on all our partners to do the same. By this concrete step you will demonstrate that you stand by Ukraine and categorically reject the most blatant act of aggression in Europe since WWII," the minister wrote.

15:39 – Border guards with the Armed Forces and the National Guard engaged in battle with the Russian occupiers on the outskirts of Sumy. Russia is carrying out an offensive from Konotop.

15:23 – Heavy battles are being fought for Shchastia and Stanytsia Luhanska. The Russian armed forces have repeatedly tried to force the river and wedge into our line of defense. Ukrainian units promptly respond to the situation and repel the enemy. Shchastia is currently under the full control of the Ukrainian military.

15:13 – In the Odesa region, 18 people were lost as a result of the Russian airstrike made in the morning on February 24 on the military base.

14:15 – Military aircraft of Ukrainian Armed Forces was shot down in Kyiv region: 5 people dead

13:51 – Invaders continue the attack by crossing the border of Ukraine in direction of Armiansk – Kherson, Chaplynka – Kakhovka

13:36 – Hostomel near Kyiv, where the airfield of the Antonov state enterprise is located, is fired from helicopters. according to the Joint Forces Command, two Russian helicopters were destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Hostomel.

13:19 – Russian soldiers have been taken as prisoners of war in the Joint Forces Operation zone

"The 93rd Brigade 'Kholodnyi Yar' has taken Russian occupants as prisoners! They belong to the 91701 motorized rifle regiment of Yampol," the message says.

13:19 – The main building of the North Crimean Canal and Kakhovka HPP were seized by the occupiers in the Kherson region.

13:09 – according to the State Border Service, Russian troops broke through the state border in Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions. The fighting continues.

13:03 – Anton Herashchenko announced two Russian servicemen taken prisoner and called on Russian mothers to take to the streets and demand an end to the war.

12:55 – Ukrainian military shot down 3 more Russian helicopters near Hostomel airport.

12:50 – in the Odessa region, as a result of an explosion in a military unit, 18 people were deceased.

12:40 – two cruise missiles were aimed at Brovary. Six people died. Twelve were injured.

12:00 – President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko stated that Belarusian troops are not taking part in the military operation in Donbas, but Lukashenko himself appealed to Putin to leave some troops in Belarus.

"To avoid insinuations: during the last meeting in Moscow, I personally suggested that Putin leave several Russian Armed Forces in the south of our Belarus. Why? I'm not ashamed to say this: we weren't ready to cover the southern direction in this situation, because Ukrainian units, military, not border ones, went to the border and began to conduct maneuvers there. We saw it, but we never had troops there. That is why I proposed to leave a small part of [Russian troops] there on the southern borders until we replace them with our Armed Forces," Lukashenko said.

11:57 – Suspilne reports that the entrance to Kyiv is closed. Exit from the capital remains open.

10:51 – The National Police appealed to Ukrainians to report suspicious people on the streets. People with red pieces on clothes are asked to pay special attention.

10:40 – The Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 4 Russian tanks were burned on the Kharkiv bypass. Meanwhile, the suburbs of Kharkiv were fired upon from the Smerch multiple rocket launcher.

In Chuhuiv, at least five apartment buildings were damaged in the morning as a result of the shelling of a military airfield. As of 10:20 a.m., one person is known to have died, an employee of the local gas service. 19 wounded people were taken to hospitals.

10:37 – in Uman, the shell hit the central part of the city. A civilian on a bicycle nearby was killed. An evacuation of the population has been announced within a radius of 30 kilometers from the military unit in Uman.

10:05 – The National Bank has limited the issuance of cash. Now you can withdraw no more than 100,000 hryvnias per day from one bank account (excluding the cost of wages and social benefits).

9:59 – In the Luhansk region on the border of Krasna Talivka, Milove, Horodyshche columns of the Russian tanks arrived

The enemy put forward columns of white cars with OSCE symbols. Fighting is currently underway on this frontier.

9:45 – The Ministry of Internal Affairs warns: mobile and Internet connections will NOT be disconnected.

9:43 – at a briefing on the situation in Ukraine, officials promised a constant update. Arestovich said that the main strikes were inflicted at 5 am on military depots and airfields. The first losses are there, but they are not significant. According to preliminary data, Russian troops violated the borders for a short distance (up to 5 kilometers) in Kharkiv, Chernihiv (closer to Sumy) regions. In the Volyn direction, such a movement was repulsed.

9:39 – Shchastia is fought off! Opponents suffered losses; the Armed Forces destroyed about 50 enemies. Russian equipment was also destroyed.

9:25 – The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the shelling of one of the objects of the State Border Guard Service in the Kyiv region. Probably from missile weapons.

Meanwhile, in Shchastis, the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up a bridge to prevent Russian tanks from moving on.

9:08 – The adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Herashchenko reported that:

• A car came under fire in the Konotop district, injuring a woman and a child.
• At 08.36 in the Odesa region in the city of Podilsk MB 0173 there's bombing; 6 dead, 7 wounded, 19 missing.
• At 08.38 in the city of Mariupol, Donetsk region, one person was killed and two were injured in the shelling.
• In the city of Kryvyi Rih the Dnepropetrovsk region three blows on warehouses of 17 tank BR, the position of combat duty 4608 Krasnopillia, blow from the UAV
• The bridge over the Inhulets River was bombed.

8:30 – The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the movement of Russian military equipment took place from occupied Crimea.

According to the State Border Guard Service, Russian military equipment violated the state border in Chernihiv, Sumy, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions.

"In particular, in the Chernihiv region, enemy vehicles passed through the Senkivka and Gremiach checkpoints and in other directions.

The movement of columns also took place through the Budarka checkpoint in the Kharkiv region and in the direction of the Milove checkpoint in the Luhansk region," the statement reads.

7:00 – according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the situation is as follows:

• Khmelnytskyi region: as a result of artillery shelling, ignition of the fuel, and PMM warehouse of the military unit of the village of Starokostiantyniv.
• Dnipropetrovsk region: Krasnopillia and Marhanets, fire at military depots.
• Vinnytsia region: the town of Tulchyn and the village of Bokhan, fire in military units.
• Lutsk, the TV tower was blown up.
• Kyiv region: the fire of a military unit near Brovary.

6:40 – martial law was imposed throughout Ukraine. Public transport in Kyiv is free.

5:00 – a full-scale invasion of Russian troops began. The aggressor began shelling along the entire line of the Russian-Ukrainian border. Fighting is also taking place in occupied Crimea and Belarus.

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