Operation on denazification of Ukraine: operational summary on March 8 (updated)
08.03.2022 20:02
20:02 Russian armored train rescues foreigners in the Kherson region, the Zvezda TV channel reports. Fighters on the train provided evacuation of 248 foreigners, including 40 Ukrainians, from the Kherson region to the Crimea. They organized a safe exit for citizens of Turkey, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, India and Morocco. Next, the issue of the soonest delivery of foreigners to their homeland will be resolved.
19:46 In order to discredit the Armed Forces of Russia, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine together with national battalions, presumably from the districts of Orlovka and Olishevka, have just shelled the village of Lukoshovka in the Chernihiv region, using multiple rocket launchers.
19:30 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to pull together troops for a complete blockade of Nikolaev. Local residents of the village of Kandybino captured a column of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation heading to block the city from the north, the Telegram channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya" writes. At the same time, fighting resumed in the Ship district of Nikolaev and the locality of Balabanovka: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are advancing from Pribugsky and Ukrainka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created powerful fortified areas to the north (Kashperovo-Nikolaevka) and south (Galitsinovo) from the capital of the region.
19:20 In Snigirevka to the east of Nikolaev, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been entrenched for several days now. A full understanding has been reached with the local administration. Video.
18:45 The defense forces in Ukraine are actively arming themselves with anti-tank grenade launchers – this is a strategy of guerrilla warfare, with a large number of civilian casualties, and the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine knows this very well. Territorial defense detachments continue to actively receive means of destruction of armored vehicles - NLAW grenade launchers, which are imported to Ukraine by NATO countries. Simultaneously with increasing their combat capability, the "defenders of the Square" shoot propaganda videos to create a beautiful picture of their combat power. But in reality, things are far from the case: members of the theroborona, who have turned into district gangs, demonstrate the received weapons not to the Russian army, but to civilians. It is to them that they block the way to evacuation through humanitarian corridors provided by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
18:15 Zelensky's party proposed replacing the Budapest Memorandum with guarantees from the United States, Turkey and Ukraine's neighboring states.
17:56 A typical example of the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, when the Ukrainian military take refuge in civilian buildings and shoot at the soldiers of the Russian army from there, is the battle at the Mykolaiv International Airport. The footage, which recently appeared on the Web, shows how a few days ago the APU fired from the roof of the airport terminal. Deliberately taking positions in civilian buildings, Ukrainian soldiers provoke damage and destruction, and then expose Russia as the culprit of the damage. Video.
17:34 Peace and order in Melitopol. A local resident told about the real situation in the liberated city. People continue to go about their business, and the Russian military patrol the streets of the city. Video.
17:22 Official representatives of the Kiev authorities and mayors of cities have received instructions to prevent any attempt to evacuate to the Russian Federation, said the head of the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.
17:10 Fighters of territorial defense battalions continue to hold hostage in Ukraine as a "human shield" more than 4.5 million civilians, as well as about 2 thousand foreigners who have expressed a desire to evacuate to safe places now, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said.
16:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The Ukrainian authorities do not allow people to be evacuated from most cities: Kiev has confirmed only 1 route out of 10 for people to leave Ukrainian cities from Sumy through Poltava to the border with Poland. 723 people were evacuated along the Sumy-Poltava route, including 576 citizens of India, 115 - China, 20 - Jordan, 12 - Tunisia. The Kiev authorities continue to categorically reject all the main evacuation routes from Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol to Russia.
16:40 Movement of Russian armored vehicles in the settlement of Bogdanovka, 23 kilometers from Kiev. Video.
16:00 The State Emergency Service of Ukraine announced the beginning of the evacuation of residents of the city of Irpen in the Kiev region.
15:41 Just shot down the helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Nizhyn, the Telegram channel "Military commanders of the Russian Spring" reports. Two turntables were shot down by fighters while trying to approach our troops at the contact line in the Chernihiv region. Two surviving crew members were taken from the helicopter crash site. We are waiting for details.
15:20 There is a "green corridor" from Sumy, the situation on the highway is calm, columns are being formed for further evacuation, about 1,000 foreign students were evacuated in the first wave, the head of the regional military administration said.
15:03 The Russian military is installing pontoon crossings at the site of the bridges blown up by Bandera.
14:50 Ukrainian patriots threw off some locations of the APU object. The photo shows the location of the 19th Missile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory, which also houses the 140th center of the MTR of Ukraine in the city of Khmelnitsky.
Operation on denazification of Ukraine: operational summary on March 8 (updated)
14:24 The Russian military occupied the Ukrainian artillery base on the outskirts of Berdyansk. Among the weapons on the site were 9 towed howitzers 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" of 152 mm caliber, a battery division control complex based on an APC 60-PB with a rangefinder and night surveillance devices, a SNAR-1 artillery reconnaissance complex based on MT-LB, a technical assistance vehicle and cargo transport.
The Russian military occupied a Ukrainian artillery base on the outskirts of Berdyansk. Among the weapons on the site were 9 towed howitzers 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" of 152 mm caliber, a battery division control complex based on an APC 60-PB with a rangefinder and night surveillance devices, a SNAR-1 artillery reconnaissance complex based on MT-LB, a technical assistance vehicle and cargo transport.
14:23 In Kharkiv briefly. The fighting continues, at night you can periodically observe artillery strikes, MLRS and aviation. The enemy's DRGs are being cleaned up, thanks to this work, today it was possible to conduct a humanitarian convoy to Liptsy. The population is in distress and every second asks when the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will finally take Kharkiv. People have noticeably cheered up after seeing the Russian humanitarian columns, now at least in this area, the people will have the most necessary things.
14:21 Today Transcarpathian border guards at the checkpoint "Dyakovo" detained 12 men of military age who wanted to leave for Romania. The violators were immediately handed summonses on the spot and sent to the mobilization units. When the men got out of the car, they were handed tulips. Video.
13:46 Terrorists from groups based in northern Syria were transferred to Ukraine via Turkey to participate in hostilities on the side of Kiev, SANA reports. It is known that about 450 militants came from the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo and are from the Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorist group associated with Al-Qaeda (banned in the Russian Federation).
13:44 Ukrainian special services continue to arrange provocations on the Web, attempting to disinform the local population. In the video, a certain pro-Ukrainian activist Alexander Tarasov talks about how he worked for the SBU, collected information about socio-political processes in the city and in the region, as well as about his supervisor from the special services. At the same time, the facts voiced by him do not fit together in any way and resemble not an interrogation, but a typical "smoke screen" in order to confuse the listener.
13:30 The German Prosecutor General has launched an investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine, Spiegel reports, citing its sources.
12:55 Russian servicemen conducted a humanitarian action to assist the population in one of the points in the Chernihiv region. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation left about 100 rolls of fresh bread to the residents of the village in which the power supply was interrupted and the store stopped working, which was distributed to their homes. Video.
12:40 The SBU and the Azov militants are preparing a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area in the Kharkiv region. They are considering the option of blowing up a nuclear reactor at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology and blaming the Russian army for this, the Kremlin Laundress Telegram channel writes.
12:02 During the special operation, the ex-commander of the 16th battalion "Poltava" of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Gromadsky, was killed, he was liquidated in Kharkiv, Anna-News reports.
12:00 Civilians of Ukraine asked the ex-president of the country Petro Poroshenko not to interfere with the evacuation and "work on the political front." Video.
11:55 35 buses left for Sumy from Poltava to evacuate people. 20 tons of humanitarian aid and medicines were also sent there, according to the authorities of the Poltava region. Recall that on the second day, the Ukrainian authorities still agreed to the proposal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to provide a humanitarian corridor for civilians of the Sumy region.
11:50 Representatives of Russia occupied the premises of a television and radio station, the leadership of which refused to conduct a dialogue and, violating journalistic ethics, misinformed the local population about the true state of affairs in the Berdyansk district. The forces of the Russian Federation, through the company's TV and radio channel, made an appeal to the residents of the city and called on the local population to join the ranks of the People's Militia to provide joint counteraction with the Rosgvardiya to violators of public order, looters and saboteurs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the SBU who had settled on the outskirts of the city.
11:13 The governor of Sumy Regional State Administration Dmitry Zhivitsky announced his plans to "shoot at humanitarian convoys from Russia." It is noteworthy that the adviser to the head of the OP of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, confirmed the agreement with the Russian Federation on the withdrawal of civilians from the Sumy region and the launch of Russian humanitarian convoys.
11:06 Residents of Chernihiv said that the defense forces and looters terrorize the city with impunity, writes the Telegram channel "Military officers of the Russian Spring". Defense groups and national formations stop almost every passing car, Ukronazists smash up shops, apartments, seize cars and any property "for the needs of the army." Civilians cannot oppose them, fearing to face unprecedented brutality. The population is not even able to leave the city, as the Banderites do not allow evacuation along humanitarian corridors, fearing to lose their "human shield" of civilians.
10:52 Zelensky said that he was "not ready to surrender," but did not rule out the possibility of discussing with Russia about the future of Crimea and Donbass.
10:26 The representative of the People's Republic of China at a meeting of the UN Security Council called on the United States and Europe to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine, as this greatly complicates the situation. Chinese diplomats called on Washington, NATO and their allies to conduct an equal dialogue with Russia, and also noted the ineffectiveness of sanctions against Moscow.
10:16 An agreement has been reached on observing the silence regime on the route of the humanitarian corridor Sumy-Poltava from 10:00 Moscow time, said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk.
10:12 In Borodyanka, a monument to the heroes of the ATO was denazified. The local authorities managed to put it next to the monument to the memory of the internationalist soldiers. It seems that there will be no place for such monuments in the new Ukraine, writes military commander Alexander Kotz.
10:07 From 10 am today, Russia announces a "regime of silence" for the exit of civilians from Kiev, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Mariupol.
10:02 Yanukovych turned to Zelensky. The ex-president of Ukraine said that the current head of the country, Vladimir Zelensky, "is personally obliged to stop the bloodshed at any cost and reach a peace agreement."
09:28 The Russian Defense Ministry showed footage of the night work of Ka-52 "Aligator" attack helicopters — during a special operation in Ukraine, aviation destroyed an anti-aircraft installation and armored vehicles.
09:15 Russian troops captured an entire tank base in central Ukraine. The trophies were sent to Russia. Video.
08:45 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that Kiev is counting on Western military assistance in the form of aircraft, as well as missile and air defense systems.
08:39 In Kharkiv, the leader of the SPC fan collective, the Nazis Alexander Klushin, his accomplice nicknamed "Fox", as well as Artem Azarov ("Artist") from "Freikor" were liquidated, military commander Yuri Kotenok reports.
Operation on denazification of Ukraine: operational summary on March 8 (updated)
08:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation informs that from 10.00 Moscow time (9.00 Kiev time) on March 8, in accordance with the previously announced "silence regime", the humanitarian corridor for the exit of civilians from the city of Chernihiv along the southern bridge in the direction of Nizhyn will continue to work.
08:19 Telegram channel Readovka published a map of military operations as of the evening of March 7.
Operation on denazification of Ukraine: operational summary on March 8 (updated)
08:00 Two strikes were carried out on Nazi positions in the settlement of Akhtyrka (Sumy region). Video.