According to the morning report from the Ukrainian General Staff, there were 82 combat operations on the front during the night. Eight enemy attacks were repelled in the direction of Bakhmut and 24 enemy attacks in the direction of the city of Avdiivka. The bridgehead near Kherson also continued to be shelled. Another one Report According to the Ukrainian army, 960 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded yesterday, Friday. The General Staff puts the total number of Russian losses at around 415,640 people. This number cannot be verified; experts believe it is too high.
+++ 06:56 Ukraine: 14 of 17 drones shot down +++
According to the Ukrainian army, 14 of 17 Russian drones were destroyed during the night. “During the night, the Russian occupiers attacked Ukraine again – 17 Shahed UAVs were used. 14 attack UAVs were destroyed by the forces and means of the air defense of Ukraine,” one said notice of the Ukrainian General Staff on Facebook. UAVs stands for “unmanned aerial vehicle”.
+++ 06:13 Ukraine calls on citizens to document the war +++
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry is asking the country’s citizens to document “military events” as part of Russia’s war of aggression, reports the Ukrainian news agency RBC-Ukraine. Relevant documents should be sent to the ministry’s archives. “The archive calls on everyone who has defended themselves or continues to defend themselves against the occupiers to send in information materials (photos, videos, etc.) with a brief description of the event covered, as well as the date and affiliation with the military unit “, the agency quotes the call.
+++ 05:32 North Korea hasn’t shipped ammunition to Russia for weeks +++
North Korea has apparently suspended the delivery of ammunition to Russia by sea. This is what the news portal reports Ukrainian Pravda citing South Korean media. No ships carrying armaments have been seen in the port of Rason since February 12th. Satellite images also showed that no more containers were brought to the port from the interior of the country. There may be production problems or logistical difficulties. It is also possible that the ammunition would be brought across the border to Russia by air or rail.
+++ 04:10 Drone attack on Odessa – high-rise building partially collapses +++
Russian drones attacked Odessa during the night. A young man died and at least seven people were injured, including a three-year-old child. Several high-rise buildings were damaged in the attack and one partially collapsed. Rescue services are looking for possible victims. It is a densely populated area, writes Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov on Telegram.
+++ 02:39 Ukraine concludes security agreement with the Netherlands +++
Ukraine has signed a security agreement with the Netherlands. “The document provides for two billion euros in military aid from the Netherlands this year,” writes President Zelenskyj on Telegram. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte traveled to embattled Kharkiv to sign. The Hague is promising Kiev further support in the short term with anti-aircraft defense, artillery, armored vehicles and long-range weapons. The Netherlands also wants to support Ukraine in its quest to join the European Union and NATO. Similar to other previous agreements with Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and Canada, the contract was concluded for ten years.
+++ 01:46 Ukrainian exports by sea reach record level since the beginning of the war +++
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure, Ukraine exported eight million tons of goods through the Black Sea corridor in February, reaching a monthly record since the start of the Russian invasion. Following the collapse of the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative in July last year, Ukraine set up a temporary Black Sea corridor for civilian cargo ships after Russia withdrew from the agreement and threatened to attack all ships entering Ukrainian ports . Of the eight million tons of goods exported by sea in February, 5.2 million were Ukrainian agricultural products, the Ministry of Infrastructure said on Telegram.
+++ 00:43 Kiesewetter: “A lot more” was probably intercepted +++
The chairman of the Parliamentary Control Committee of the Bundestag, Konstantin von Notz, is calling for clarification about reports that Russian air force communications have been intercepted. “If this story turns out to be true, it would be a highly problematic process,” says the Green politician to the Germany editorial network. “The question arises as to whether this is a one-off event or a structural safety problem.” The vice chairman of the Bundestag’s intelligence control committee, Roderich Kiesewetter, assumes that the latter is the case. “Russia is of course showing how heavily it uses espionage and sabotage as part of the hybrid war. It is to be expected that much more has been intercepted and leaked in order to influence decisions, discredit and manipulate people,” says the CDU politician to the “Handelsblatt”.
+++ 23:53 Russians put pressure on new front line +++
According to the Ukrainian military, Russia is keeping the pressure high, especially west and southwest of the city of Donetsk. In the Avdiivka area, 20 attacks were repelled, and in the Novopavlivka area the Russian military tried to break through the defense lines 25 times, the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report. This puts the next line of defense under pressure after Ukraine recently had to evacuate the fortress area around Avdiivka. The General Staff reports attacks on the towns of Berdychi, Orlivka and Tonenke, where the Ukrainian military wanted to dig in after withdrawing from Avdiivka. Further south, after the Russian conquest of Maryinka, the Ukrainian defenders in the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Heorhiyivka and Novomykhailivka found themselves in trouble.
+++ 23:15 Polish farmers completely block the border crossing with Ukraine +++
Polish farmers have completely blocked the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing since the afternoon, says Ukrainian state border guard spokesman Andrii Demchenko. “As the Polish side told us, Polish farmers refused to let trucks pass towards or out of Ukraine,” said Demchenko. Polish farmers sparked a new wave of protests in February in response to Ukrainian agricultural imports and disagreements over the EU’s Green Deal. “Within one day, 111 trucks traveling from Poland to Ukraine crossed the border. As before, no trucks from Ukraine to Poland were allowed to cross the border. The number of crossings towards Poland has been zero in the last two days ” says Demchenko.
+++ 22:19 Ukraine survives winter for the first time only with domestic gas production +++
For the first time in history, Ukraine survived the winter with only domestic gas production, writes the CEO of the Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz, Oleksiy Chernyshov, on his Facebook page. “Ten years ago no one would have believed in it. Two years ago, when the war began in full force, it was also difficult to believe in it. But we did it, and now we plan to continue the trend towards Ukraine’s energy independence in the future maintain,” says Chernyshev. Naftogaz has accumulated 14 billion cubic meters of gas reserves by the end of summer 2023 to prepare for the heating season.
+++ 21:17 Secret service: Russian officials in Ukraine involved in the “Maidan-3” destabilization campaign +++
An official of the Russian presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, and Vladimir Putin’s former adviser Vladislav Surkov are on the list of those involved in the “Maidan 3” destabilization campaign directed against Ukraine, a military intelligence spokesman, Andriy Yusov, says on Ukrainian television . President Volodymyr Zelensky first publicly mentioned the Maidan 3 campaign last November. Zelenskyj relied on information from the Ukrainian secret service HUR and Western countries. “Maidan 3” refers to the 2014 Euromaidan revolution that led to the overthrow of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and culminated in Kyiv’s Independence Square, known in Ukrainian as Maidan Nezalezhnosti. The main goal of the “Maidan 3” plan is to divide Ukrainian society through disinformation and create chaos in the state in order to remove the president using “all available means,” according to Yusov.
+++ 20:59 Russia classifies author as a “foreign agent” +++
Russia classifies the well-known author Lyudmila Ulitskaya, who lives in exile in Germany, as a “foreign agent” because of her criticism of the war in Ukraine and alleged LGBTQ “propaganda.” Ulitskaya “opposed the special military operation in Ukraine” and “carried out propaganda for LGBT relationships,” explains the Russian Justice Ministry. The Russian government uses the term “foreign agent” to refer to people it sees as traitors and opponents of the state’s leadership. Authors who are classified in this way must mark their works with an appropriate warning.
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