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March 7, 2024
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It has been the 743th day of the Ukrainian resistance to the russian military aggression.

What happened in Ukraine today:

Here is operational information of the General Staff as of 6 pm:

During the day of March 7, there were 70x combat engagements.

The enemy launched a total of 3x missile and 43x air strikes, carried out 46x MLRS attacks at the positions of Ukrainian troops and various settlements. Unfortunately, russian terrorist attacks resulted in killed and wounded civilians. Residential private and apartment buildings, as well as other infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.

Volyn and Polissya axes: no significant changes. No signs of formation of an offensive group.

Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna axes: the adversary maintains its military presence in the areas of russia bordering Ukraine. The enemy continues its sabotage and reconnaissance activities, shelling Ukrainian settlements from the territory of russia and increases the density of minefields along the state border of Ukraine. The adversary launched air strikes in the vicinities of Babelivka (Sumy oblast) and Vovchans’k (Kharkiv oblast). Around 30x settlements came under enemy artillery and mortar fire, including Buchky, Hasychivka (Chernihiv oblast), Stara Huta, Hrabovs’ke, Popivka (Sumy oblast), Kozacha Lopan’, Vovchans’k, Krasne, Neskuchne (Kharkiv oblast).

Kupiansk axis: the enemy conducted 2x attacks on the positions of Ukrainian defenders in the vicinity of Syn’kivka (Kharkiv oblast). The adversary launched air strikes in the vicinities of Ivanivka and Stepova Novoselivka (Kharkiv oblast). The invaders fired artillery and mortars at more than 10x settlements, including Holubivka, Syn’kivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Kotlyarivka (Kharkiv oblast).

Lyman axis: the Ukrainian defenders repelled 7x assaults near Bilohorivka (Luhansk oblast), Terny, Rozdolivka (Donetsk oblast), where the adversary made attempts to breach Ukrainian defense. The enemy fired artillery and mortars at around 20x settlements, including Makiivka, Nevs’ke, Bilohorivka (Luhansk oblast), Terny, Yampolivka, Tors’ke, Serebryanka (Donetsk oblast).

Bakhmut axis: the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled 5x attacks in the vicinities of Klishchiivka, Andriivka (Donetsk oblast), where the occupiers, with air support, made attempts to improve their tactical situation. The enemy launched air strikes in the vicinities of Hryhorivka, Toretsk and Druzhba (Donetsk oblast). More than 10x settlements came under artillery and mortar fire, including Bohdanivka, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Andriivka (Donetsk oblast).

Avdiivka axis: the Ukrainian defenders repelled 20x attacks in the vicinities of Berdychi, Tonen’ke, Orlivka, Pervomais’ke, Nevel’s’ke (Donetsk oblast). The adversary launched air strikes in the vicinities of Novobakhmutivka, Ocheretyne, Umans’ke (Donetsk oblast). The invaders fired artillery and mortars at around 20x settlements, including Novobakhmutivka, Berdychi, Semenivka, Pervomais’ke, Nevel’s’ke (Donetsk oblast).

Novopavlivka axis: the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to hold back the invaders in the vicinities of Heorhiivka, Pobieda, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka (Donetsk oblast). In that area, the invaders, with air support, made 19x attempts to breach Ukrainian defense. The adversary launched air strikes near Kostyantynivka and Vuhledar (Donetsk oblast). The enemy fired artillery and mortars at more than 20x settlements, including Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Paraskoviivka, Vuhledar (Donetsk oblast).

Orikhiv axis: the adversary conducted no offensives. Around 20x settlements, including Poltavka, Malynivka, Charivne, Bilohir’ya, Novodanylivka, P’yatykhatky (Zaporizhzhia oblast), were under artillery and mortar fire of the occupiers.

Odesa operational-strategic group, Kherson axis: the occupiers do not abandon their intention to drive Ukrainian units out of their footholds on the left bank of the Dnipro. The enemy conducted 1x assault attempt, to no success. More than 20x settlements, including the city of Kherson, Tyahynka, Ivanivka, Krynky, Novotyahynka (Kherson oblast), were under artillery and mortar fire of the occupiers. The invaders launched an air strike in the vicinity of Mykolaivka (Kherson oblast).

During the day of March 7, the Ukrainian Air Force launched air strikes on 11x concentrations of enemy troops.

The Ukrainian missile troops hit 1x concentration of troops, 2x air defense systems, 1x electronic warfare station, 1x fuel depot of russian invaders.

Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine, announced on his official website about certificates for apartments to 30 more Heroes of Ukraine and the families of the fallen Heroes. These are soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, sergeants, senior lieutenants, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels and lieutenant colonels of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Petro Kotin, Head of Enerhoatom NNEGC, reported that the invaders are unable to replace the fuel at Zaporizhzhia NPP, which is about to expire. He also said that inexperienced russians and people from near Enerhodar, who have no idea how to operate nuclear facilities, have taken the places of Ukrainian specialists at ZNPP.

Recent war events in the east of Ukraine

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Defence Forces repelled 63 russian attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Most of the combat waswas towards Avdiivka and Novopavlivka.

Kharkiv oblast

Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, reported that yesterday about 22 settlements in Kharkiv oblast suffered artillery and mortar attacks: Udy, Kozacha Lopan, Ambarne, Zapadne, Synkivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Kotliarivka. The enemy launched air strikes on Zarichne, Nesterne, Krasnyi Yar, Chorne, Kozacha Lopan and Tabaivka.

After midnight, a KAB strike in Borova village damaged the facade of a residential building, a fence and a car. The 73-year-old owner of the house has an acute stress reaction. There was no fire.

At 12:50pm, the invaders hit Chuhuiv region by at least two shaheds, no one was injured.

At 1:30pm, a garage, an outbuilding and two cars were set on fire as a result of a shelling in Borova village, Izium region. The enemy used an Iskander-M missile.

A 70-year-old man was killed near the car. A woman was rescued from the rubble, 5 of her children and a man from a neighbouring house injured. In total, 12 houses were damaged.

At 3:37pm, the enemy shelled Kozacha Lopan village. At least four explosions were heard. There were no casualties.

Yesterday the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled four enemy attacks near Synkivka and Tabaivka.

Combined teams of bomb experts cleared 15.93 hectares of territory and destroyed 293 explosive ordnance.

Mariia Chernenko, Head of Rohan community, reported on Ukrainian Radio Kharkiv that 80% of people and only 10% of businesses have returned to Rohan community near Kharkiv.

According to her, all businesses were destroyed during the occupation and shelling, so the biggest problem is the lack of jobs.

The CodelT4Life Ukraine team sent 10 new ATVs to the defenders of Kharkiv oblast. They will help them to carry out evacuation operations from the battlefield more efficiently and rescue their comrades.

Donetsk oblast

Selydove City Military Administration reported that at around 6am, russian military personnel attacked Ukrainsk by Uragan MRLs. There were no casualties but seven apartment buildings were damaged.

The press service of Donetsk police confirmed that yesterday the invaders killed one person and injured three others. The enemy attacked settlements 15 and the contact line 1779 times. 11 settlements were under attack: Krasnohorivka, Pokrovsk, Toretsk cities, Zarichne, Shcherbynivka settlements, Halytsynivka, Yelyzavetivka, Kleban-Byk, Netailove, Novoukrainka and Romanivka villages. 67 civilian objects were damaged, including 45 residential buildings, a lyceum, cultural centres, an enterprise, a boiler house, warehouses, 10 cars and communications.

Aftermath of russian shelling. Photo from social media

According to Donetsk Regional Military Administration, towards Volnovakha, a house and an agricultural enterprise were damaged in Novoukrainka of Vuhledar community.

Towards Pokrovsk, a person was killed in Netailove of Ocheretyne community. Krasnohorivka, Kostiantynivka, Heorhiivka and Pobieda of Marinka community were shelled. 7 apartment buildings were damaged in Ukrainsk of Selydove community. Hostre of Kurakhove community was shelled.

Towards Kramatorsk, in Illinivsk community, 2 people were injured and 23 objects damaged in Kleban-Byk, 2 houses were damaged in Romanivka. 8 houses were damaged in Zarichne of Lyman community. The outskirts of Kostiantynivka community were under attack.

Towards Bakhmut, 6 private houses were damaged in Chasiv Yar community. 4 houses in Toretsk and another 1 in Shcherbynivka were damaged. A house and a non-residential building were damaged in Siversk. Rozdolivka and Fedorivka of Soledar community, Pereizne and Verkhnokamianske of Zvanivka community were shelled.

The Special Operations Forces of Ukraine informed that towards Lyman, a unit of the Medoid Special Forces destroyed russian Zoopark-1 radar station with its crew.

Luhansk oblast

According to Luhansk Regional Military Administration, russians stormed and shelled Bilohorivka and Makiivka again. They are shelling the de-occupied settlements in the oblast, including by guided aerial bombs.

The occupied territories expect mobilisation to intensify immediately after the elections. In some places, coercion to join the russian army has not stopped. The occupation administration of Troitske region acknowledged that the number of people mobilised from their district is growing every day.

Forced passportisation, the high percentage of which collaborators claimed back in 2022, somehow avoided students of higher education institutions of the so-called “lpr”. Many of them are holders of Ukrainian passports or relevant certificates of citizens of the ‘republic’. The invaders discovered the problem during the strengthening of military registration.

The heads of state institutions of the so-called ‘lpr’ have been ordered to ensure that all employees turn out for the March elections. Employees are promised bonuses for participating in these elections. In the settlements of the occupied Luhansk oblast, where up to 100 people remain, a thousand people are included in the election lists. This means that the invaders are artificially increasing the turnout by several times. Among the members of the commissions are employees of the same state institutions. In case of refusal, men face mobilisation and women face dismissal.

What is happening now in the north of Ukraine

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated 152m hryvnia to block hostile television and radio broadcasts in the border regions of Ukraine. Complexes for blocking TV and radio signals from the territory of russia, belarus and Transnistria will be installed in 45 locations of the border zone of nine regions. Specifically, on the territory of Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts. The complexes are expected to become operational on 1 May, 2024.

Kyiv oblast

Kyiv oblast shares its experience in managing destruction waste and develops new mechanisms – a round table “Overcoming the consequences of war: determining the volume and management of destruction waste” was held in the capital. During the event, the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure presented its vision of the road map for waste management from destruction.

Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office reported that they sent an indictment to the court against the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the russian federation and his subordinates, who were involved in the murders of Ukrainian civilians during the temporary occupation of Bucha region. By order of the commander of the reconnaissance platoon, the invaders interrogated the detained civilian man, beat him and simulated an execution. After being tortured on the orders of their leader, they killed a civilian and left his body in a plantation.

In St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv, they paid tribute to Lithuanian volunteer Tadas Tumas, who was killed on 23 February, 2024 on the front line near Bakhmut. He served in a separate special forces battalion of the International Defense Legion of Ukraine. As the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT reported, this is the first Lithuanian volunteer who died in Ukraine at the front. Together with a Ukrainian soldier, Tadas was transporting mines to the front line near Bakhmut, when a russian FPV drone hit their car and they both were killed.

Kyiv City State Administration reported that the Dnipro metro station in Kyiv, which has not been working for the transportation of passengers since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, will be opened on 8 March. The Dnipro metro station is above-ground, so it will be closed for passenger transportation during an air alert for safety reasons.

The capital Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said that the city handed over almost 500 UAVs of various types to Donbas to the fighters of the 112th brigade of the city of Kyiv’s TRO. According to him, last year, at the request of the brigade, the city directed more than 236m hryvnia for its equipment.

In Kyiv, Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater hosted a charity screening of the play “The Witch of Konotop” based on the novel by Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko. So far, more than 2.3m hryvnia have been collected for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Zhytomyr oblast

Zhytomyr City Council reported that the Zhytomyr drone project handed over the next batch of drones to the aerial scouts of the 95th brigade, specifically 15 FPV drones assembled within the project. It is noted that the participants of the platform put 229 drones into operation, 55 of which have already been successfully tested and are working on the front line.

Zhytomyr RMA reported that there are currently 16,131 internally displaced children in the oblast, 5,423 of which are of preschool age.

Sumy oblast

Sumy RMA reported that the russian army launched an air-missile attack on the city of Sumy. The objects of civil infrastructure were damaged. All the necessary services are working on the spot, the consequences of the attack are being clarified.

During the night and morning of 7 March, the russians shelled the border areas and settlements of Sumy oblast 12 times. 72 explosions by mortars, artillery, bombardment with cluster shells, launch of aerial bombs of the KAB type were recorded.

Yesterday russians attacked the border 19 times and a total of 91 explosions were recorded. 7 communities of the oblast were shelled: Khotyn, Yunakivka, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Velyka Pysarivka, Seredyna-Buda and Znob-Novhorodske. The enemy attacked by mortars, artillery, MLRS, launched unguided missles from a helicopter and aerial guided bombs from planes.

Sumy RMA reported that on 6 March, russians launched 4 air bombs of the KAB type on the territory of Seredyna-Buda community, one of which was used for remote mining of the territory with striking elements (cluster munitions).

Sumy RMA reported that as a result of a night attack by enemy drones in Sumy on 6 March, 235 households were damaged. In addition, two medical institutions, a kindergarten, a school, a library and a medical college were damaged by the explosions. It is noted that the supply of water, gas, heat and electricity has been restored in all buildings. In addition, 534 window openings are already covered with film or OSB plates. Victims are provided with all necessary consultations, assistance and psychological support, hot meals are organized.

The police of Sumy oblast reported that on 6 March, as a result of russian shelling of Znob-Novhorodske community, three private residential buildings were damaged, an airstrike on Seredyna-Buda community damaged 6 private residential buildings, a summer kitchen and a utility room, and an airstrike in Yunakivka community damaged the dining room and garages of a farm. The building of the boiler house was also destroyed.

The National Police reported that russian troops are using SHOAB-0.5 spherical fragmentation aerial bombs in Sumy oblast. The enemy remotely mined the territory of Shostka region, near the village of Marchykhina Buda. One such cartridge contains 565 SHOB-0.5 ball bombs weighing 400 grams each and has a large area of damage. Currently, police explosives officers are clearing the area of these dangerous objects.

Cluster bombs launched by the russian military on Sumy oblast. Photo: The National Police

The SBGS reported that last night, border guards as part of the Defense Forces discovered an enemy sabotage and intelligence group moving from the russian side. They immediately opened fire on the saboteurs with small arms and grenade launchers. The enemy retreated, his losses are being ascertained.

Chernihiv oblast

The SBGS reported that over the past 24 hours, russian troops shelled the border of Chernihiv oblast 9 times. The communities of Novhorod-Siverskyi, Semenivka and Snovsk were under enemy shelling. A total of 44 explosions from mortars and barrel artillery were recorded.

In the communities of Sosnytsia, Bobrovytsia and Mykhailo-Kotsiubynska, the process of rebuilding educational institutions has begun with the support of the government of Great Britain. They became the winners of the competition of the Ministry of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine. In total, 10 communities across Ukraine were recognized as winners in the competition.

Chernihiv Teplokomunenerho reported that they will receive more than five million euros in grant funds for the reconstruction of the pipelines of the centralized heat supply system. They will be provided by the Northern Environmental Financial Corporation – NEFKO.

Recent events in the central regions of Ukraine

Dnipropetrovsk oblast

Mykola Lukashuk, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, reported that the occupiers shelled Nikopol with artillery and launched 5 kamikaze drones. Due to the shelling an administrative building was damaged, a fire broke out in one of the private houses and damaged 8 private houses, 5 outbuildings, cars and power lines.

Chernihiv oblast

Recent events in the central regions of Ukraine

Dnipropetrovsk oblast

Coin in the shape of a Ukrainian Pysanka. Photo from social networks

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Materials compiled by Tetiana Kliuchnyk-Horobets, Tetyana Pidgorna, Olena Reka, Yana Hushchyna, Tamara Moshkovska, Sofia Ratynska, Ioanna Kryvenko, Liudmyla Stadnykova, Аnna Efremova, Albahachiieva Helena

Translated by Tetyana Pidgorna, Yana Hushchyna, Liudmyla Stadnykova, Viktoriia Pushyna, Marharyta Koval, Tetiana Kurbatova

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