Saker update #7
http://thesaker.is/day-7-major-moves-in-the-south-human-right-report-suppressed/
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1. Mariupol. The city is blocked. Fighting on the outskirts. There is no direct assault yet. They are still trying to negotiate the exit of civilians, but the Nazis will not refuse a human shield. There will be an assault one way or another.
2. Volnovakha. Surrounded. The stripping process is not fully captured yet. The enemy has very heavy losses,
3. Near Donetsk positionka. The APU attack (sortie) on Gorlovka did not yield results, both sides suffered losses. The shelling of the territory of the DPR continues.
4. The liberation of the republic continues in the LPR. Svatovo and Novoaydar were liberated. The enemy retreats, throwing equipment. It will hold only in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, but they have already started processing it there.
5. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have occupied Balakleya and are moving towards Raisins. And there Slavyansk is not far away. It is very likely that in the coming days, part of the AFU forces remaining in the northern regions of the LPR and not having time to retreat will be surrounded and liquidated.
6. Kharkiv. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are already being held in semi-custody. Fighting on the outskirts. In the city – the methodical destruction of the enemy’s manpower and its organizational and command structure. Along the way, they continue to finish off the remaining military facilities.
7. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation approached the Brovars. There is no direct assault yet. Fighting near Chernihiv, measures to establish full control over Konotop. Trostyanets is fully occupied. Sumy and Akhtyrka are still not fully controlled.
8. Positional battles to the west of Kiev — the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are pulling up additional forces. There are losses in equipment on both sides.
9. Zaporozhye direction. Battles near Vasilevka. APU is constantly being poured over the village. Energodar has not yet been cleaned up.
10. Kherson. The city was occupied at night by the troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The local authorities eventually agreed to an agreement. The city is relatively quiet.
11. In the area of Nikolaev, fighting continues with the aim of blocking the city, which has not yet been achieved. The situation in the area of the Nikolaev – Krivoy Rog highway is unclear. Helicopter landing near Nikolaev. In the Voznesensk area, one of the bridges was blown up.
12. No one landed in Odessa as usual. In the morning, Russian ships appeared on the horizon, then departed. Then something was smoking over the horizon. Perhaps there was another naval battle with the remaining boats of the Ukrainian Navy, which, after the battle at Zmeiny, went to Odessa. (later it turned out that a foreign cargo ship was smoking, perhaps something had arrived) There are no details yet. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asks Zelensky to achieve a pause in hostilities, since the city is not covered from the land direction and is not ready to repel the attack of Russian columns bypassing Nikolaev from the north.
From a very fresh, completely wild story in Vasilkovo, where a local volksturm staged a massacre at a local school. 4 volkssturmistas killed 14 other Volkssturmists, policemen and civilians. Ukropropaganda hastened to announce that it was “Russian saboteurs” who were rushing to the basement of the school (yes, everything was happening at school), where there were 300 children, protecting whom all these idiots died. That’s what the distribution of weapons to random people leads to. Yesterday, in the same area, volkssturmists looted 2 collector cars.
In this case, Russian propaganda does not even need to try, you know, show yourself this bloody trash, which says a lot about the Volkssturm and those who created it in this form.
PS. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will be held tomorrow in Belovezhskaya Pushcha.
Lavrov outlined the negotiating position of the Russian Federation:
⚡ I do not rule out that someone wanted Russia to get mired in a man-made conflict created by the West in Ukraine
Russian demands to Ukraine cannot be qualified as its surrender, Moscow offers to negotiate
If the West has decided to lower a new “iron curtain” in front of Russia, we will not worry and will find an opportunity to develop
The task of the operation in Ukraine is to identify specific types of strike weapons that will never be deployed there
⚡ After the end of the conflict, Ukrainians themselves must decide how to live on
Kiev has not yet confirmed the holding of the second round of consultations with the Russian Federation
NATO is trying to involve neutral EU member states in providing for their needs
Moscow is amazed by Berlin’s comments on Ukraine and on arms supplies
Russia is ready to discuss the issue of security guarantees during the second round of negotiations with Ukraine
Zelensky came to power under the slogans of peace, eventually he became a Russophobe, like the Poroshenko government
Ukraine has the technical potential to create nuclear weapons, the Russian Federation will not allow it
Russia is 100% “safe” in the current situation
The current situation has developed due to the fact that the West refused to recognize equal rights for the Russian Federation in the organization of the Euro-security architecture
The parameters of demilitarization of Ukraine have yet to be agreed
Moscow will not discuss the topic of Crimea, this topic is closed
The West, in its sanctions against Russia, including the seizure of assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, spat on all its principles
The purpose of the ongoing operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is to protect people, primarily in the Donbass
Russia is now observing “information terrorism” with the stuffing of millions of fakes that Moscow exposes
⚡ Russia’s position in negotiations with Ukraine: Crimea is part of the Russian Federation, recognition of the DPR and LPR within administrative borders, demilitarization, which should have certain parameters
Ukraine must undergo the denazification procedure, as in the past Germany
⚡️ During the special operation, we are doing everything to prevent any serious civilian casualties
Russia cannot watch the participants of torchlight processions marching under fascist, neo-Nazi banners in modern Europe
Russia offers Ukraine an agreement that will ensure the legitimate rights of all the peoples of this country,
In fact, these are all the same requirements as at the beginning of the operation. Ukrainian sources claim that by March 2, Zelensky was already ready to recognize the Crimea and the LDPR within the borders before the start of the operation. But of course this will not suit the Russian Federation, the sheepskin is not worth the dressing. Bearing significant costs for the operation and from the sanctions pressure, it is necessary to take the maximum possible result from the situation in Ukraine.
UPD: The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially announced the losses in Ukraine since the beginning of the operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – 498 killed. The APU has 2870 killed and 3700 wounded.