Putin’s forces suffered heavy losses, according to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Estimates report that 930 Russian infantrymen have been killed in the past 24 hours.
This brings the estimated death toll as of March 5 to 153,120.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine also reported the loss of five tanks and nine armoured personnel carriers (APVs).
The latest figures come after Russia suffered one of its worst defeats since the start of the war in Ukraine, wasting up to three hundred troops a day and destroying more than a hundred military vehicles.
Read our blog about the war in Ukraine below for the latest news. . .
The UK Ministry of Defence provided the latest update on the scenario in Ukraine.
The update read: “In late February 2023, mobilized Russian reservists described being ordered to attack a Ukrainian concrete strongpoint armed only with firearms and shovels. “”Shovels” are entrenchment equipment used for hand-to-hand combat.
“The lethality of the MPL-50 entrenchment tool is mythologized in Russia. Little replaced since its conception in 1869, its continued use as a weapon highlights the brutal and rudimentary fighting that characterized much of the war.
“One of the reservists described that he was ‘neither physically nor psychologically’ ready for action.
“Recent evidence suggests an increase in hand-to-hand fighting in Ukraine. This is probably the result of the fact that the Russian command continues to insist on an offensive action consisting largely of landed infantry, with less artillery fire because Russia is running out of ammunition. .
Instead of generating and repairing mining equipment, the staff is trained to build metal bunkers at a metal factory in Kryvyi Rih, thanks to a task presented through the metallurgical company Metinvest.
Materials have already been sent to the provinces of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk to build underground shelters with a Soviet-era design.
Each shelter will require only about two tons of metal, as they are built to cope with shells of calibers up to 152 mm and will be buried 1. 5 m underground.
The shelter will house six infantrymen and will have beds, as well as a portable stove and double floor for weapons store, as well as a surface exit and a front accessible through a tunnel.
Petro Zhuk leads a team of 40 other people who build one shelter per day, which usually requires 165 hours of work.
According to the Kherson Oblast government, three other people were killed after Russian shelling hit Poniativka.
Authorities said two children were among the dead.
The report also said the attack was intentional on a residential building.
Emergency cars destined for Ukraine have been set on fire in Poland, reports The Kyiv Independent.
The outlet reported that a 35-year-old suspect has been arrested.
The two ambulances were due to leave for Ukraine on 4 March as part of a humanitarian convoy organised through the Moc Przyszłości Foundation.
Bereaved Ukrainian mothers have shared their fears after their children were kidnapped by Putin’s troops and transported to hellfields across Russia.
Devastated parents described how their children were sent on “school trips” but ended up in “re-education” camps where they were starved to death and beaten.
Thousands of young people have been abducted or taken to Russian-controlled spaces and some have been reunited with their families in Ukraine.
Struggling mothers told The Sunday Times how they were stressed about sending their children to summer camp and then lost contact with them for months.
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In President Zelensky’s most recent tweet, the Ukrainian leader told his fans that “each and every user is important, each and every life is important. “
The tweet read: “Remember, what allows us precisely to be united now, united by justice. Every user counts. In other words, each and every user is important, each and every life is important. “
“Glory to all those who Ukraine and abroad legally order!Glory to all those who are now fighting for Ukraine!”
The UK Ministry of Defence today shared a message showing its continued solidarity with Ukraine.
Speaking on Twitter, the Ministry of Defence shared a symbol quoting a British army officer talking about Ukrainian recruits and saying: “They are very motivated. They have a willingness to be informed and just need to exercise, exercise and exercise again. “
Next to the image, the caption read: “The British Armed Forces #StandWithUkraine as we continue to offer UK-led educational programmes to foot soldiers protecting their nation’s sovereignty from Russian invaders. “
The army leadership in Kiev announced that the curfew will be extended from 23:00 hours. At five o’clock in the morning from the fifth to the twelfth of March.
Citizens are prohibited from being on the street or in public places, and may not drive or walk to any other destination.
A said: “On the territory of the Kiev region, the curfew will be in force every day from 23:00 to 05:00. These transient restrictions were extended from March 5 to 12 in accordance with the order of the Kiev Regional Military Administration. throughout the region.
According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 930 Russian infantrymen have been killed in the last 24 hours.
Putin’s forces have suffered heavy losses since the war began after surpassing 153,000 dead.
The estimated existing total of losses at nine o’clock in the morning on Sunday, March 5, 2023 is 153,120.
Known as Operation Interflex, the UK-led education program for Ukrainian recruits gives them skills on the battlefield, allowing them to protect their opponents from Russian aggression.
Education is aimed at new volunteer recruits who have joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces with little or no previous military experience to teach them the necessary skills and be effective in frontline combat.
Since the education programme began in June 2022, more than 10,000 recruits have participated in the education, which was extended with an education target of 20,000 by 2023.
Oleh Zhdanov, a leading Ukrainian analyst of military affairs, said last night he could stumble upon any sign that Kiev would order withdrawal from the city.
Speaking in an interview on YouTube, he said: “At the moment, the scenario is more or less stabilized. As for the advance of Russian troops, we have almost stopped it. “
Residents are shown with their belongings from destroyed buildings after Russian attacks killed thirteen other people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on March 4, 2023.
The UK Ministry of Defence provided the latest update on the scenario in Ukraine.
The update read: “In late February 2023, mobilized Russian reservists described being ordered to attack a Ukrainian concrete strongpoint armed only with ‘guns and shovels. ”Shovels’ are entrenchment equipment that are used for hand-to-hand combat.
“The lethality of the MPL-50 entrenchment tool is mythologized in Russia. Little replaced since its conception in 1869, its continued use as a weapon highlights the brutal and rudimentary fighting that characterized much of the war.
One of the reservists described that he was “neither physically nor psychologically” ready for action.
“Recent evidence suggests an increase in hand-to-hand fighting in Ukraine. This is probably the result of the fact that the Russian command continues to insist on an offensive action consisting largely of landed infantry, with less artillery fire because Russia is running out of ammunition. .
In a video address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the signing of an agreement for the International Centre for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression to be in The Hague.
She said: “Ladies and gentlemen. Russia’s invasion has caused untold suffering to Ukraine. Almost a year ago, the world discovered the horrors of Butcha.
“I myself was there and witnessed the atrocities committed by Russian forces. Evidence is developing of direct attacks on civilians, as well as on power and other infrastructure.
“Russian forces are known to have committed torture, ill-treatment, sexual violence and abstract executions. Even young people are saved.
“Russia will have to be responsible for those horrible crimes and Putin will have to be responsible. We will have to do everything in our power to bring the perpetrators to justice.
“The European Union supports the role of the International Criminal Court. We also believe that there will have to be a committed court to prosecute Russia’s crime of aggression.
“And I am proud that at this conference, as a first step, you sign the agreement for the status quo of the International Centre for the Prosecution of Crimes of Aggression in The Hague.
“The European Union will continue to work with our partners to make Russia pay. We are united for justice for Ukraine. “
Thirteen other people were killed following the Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzia on Thursday.
One was made through the main branch of Ukraine’s state emergency service in the Zaporizhzhia region on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
The report says: “Rescuers recovered thirteen bodies of sick people from under the rubble of the house, adding that of an 8-month-old baby. “
Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Saturday released a video showing coffins containing the bodies of Ukrainians who lost their lives fighting for their country.
In the video, Prigozhin said: “We are sending home a shipment of Ukrainian army fighters. They fought valiantly and perished. That’s why the last truck will take them back to their homeland. “
Uniformed men nailed the coffins and loaded them onto a truck.
Prigozhin has already congratulated the Ukrainian army for its dignified and capable efforts in Bakhmut.
Last night, Russian troops finally arrived in Bakhmut as thousands of civilians fled.
Ukraine tightened dominance with elite groups such as the Wagner Group’s Wagner Group hitman complex and Putin’s in the northern suburbs, British intelligence chiefs said.
A road to Chasiv Yar, seven miles to the west, the last primary source in the direction of Bakhmut, was bombarded constantly.
Deputy Mayor Oleksandr Marchenko told the BBC: “There is fighting in the city and street fighting, but thanks to our armed forces, they still haven’t taken the city. “
He said of the Russian attack: “Its only purpose is to kill other people and genocidal the other Ukrainian people. The tactic the Russians use is parched land. “
“They need to destroy Bakhmut, the total city, and I don’t understand why they are doing this. “
He added: “The village is almost destroyed and there is a lonely construction that has been left intact in this war. “
During her meeting with President Zelensky, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola expressed hope that Ukraine will start EU accession negotiations this year.
She said: “I hope accession negotiations can start as early as this year. Ukraine’s long-term is in the European Union. The speed at which the Verkhovna Rada and the government are advancing the EU bid impresses me. “
Meanwhile, Zelesnky said: “Ukraine aims to complete the implementation of the European Commission’s recommendations as soon as possible and start negotiations on the EU club as soon as this year. “
Reuters reported that Germany has frozen around 5. 25 billion euros of assets belonging to Russian oligarchs since the invasion.
The data shared in reaction to a request from German MP Christian Goerke, who said: “Since December, only 200 million euros of the assets of the oligarchs were frozen, and for six months, only one billion. No single oligarch has declared their wealth since December. “
Germany’s sanctions law stipulates that targets of EU sanctions will have to reclaim their assets without delay or face fines or up to a year in prison.
So far, 8 oligarchs have declared 31 asset positions to the Bundesbank according to the figures.
The Kyiv Independent quotes Der Spiegel magazine in its reports that German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is in talks with Ukraine to build a tank factory in Ukraine.
The company’s chief executive, Armin Papconsistent withger, said the plant could be established in Ukraine for about two hundred million euros and could produce at least 400 major Panther-type war tanks per year.
He added that talks with the Ukrainian government are “promising” and he hopes to succeed in a resolution in the “next two months. “
Far-right congressional Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene insisted the United States deserves to try to create peace between Russia and Ukraine rather than fund an army that could escalate the war.
During CPAC at National Harbor in Maryland on Friday, Greene said, “I think the United States is pushing for peace in Ukraine instead of reversing and continuing a war that turns out to be escalating and putting the whole world in danger of a third global war. .
“We announce peace. Europe has peace and America does its part.
“Ukraine is a NATO member country and Joe Biden said at the beginning that he would protect Ukraine because it is a NATO member country.
“It doesn’t make sense and other Americans don’t. “
The army leadership in Kiev announced that the curfew will be extended from 23:00 hours. At five o’clock in the morning from the fifth to the twelfth of March.
Citizens are prohibited from being on the street or in public places, and may not drive or walk to any other destination.
One read: “On the territory of the Kiev region, the curfew will be in force every day from 23:00 to 05:00. These transient restrictions were extended from March 5 to 12 in accordance with the order of the Kiev Regional Military Administration. throughout the país. la region. “
In the past 24 hours, Kiev heard two air raid sirens, one of which lasted an hour and minutes.
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, shared a video of herself in Lviv, Ukraine.
He also met with President Zelensky, who thanked him for supporting his country saying that the European Parliament had taken “important decisions” since the beginning of the war.
The decisions come with the option of Ukraine putting forward a candidate for the EU club, as Zelensky expects negotiations to begin this year.
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May recalled the Salisbury poisonings and how 4 years later Putin attacked Ukraine.
Former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were on a park bench in Salibury.
He later discovered that they had been poisoned through Novichok, a nerve agent organization developed through the Soviet army that is used in chemical warfare and terrorism.
Russia, the main suspect in this incident and five years later, Theresa May recalled this tragedy and commented on Putin’s existing moves and how the West will remain united in front of him.
She said: “There was an idea at the time that Salisbury was a remote case, some kind of aberration. It wasn’t. I’ve been transparent that it was part of a more competitive positioning of Russia that would have further consequences on the future”.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is an opportunist. Four years later, he invaded Ukraine, believing that the West had disunited and looking for the other side. He was wrong.
“Practically, he failed in everything he sought to achieve. I had the idea that I would take Kiev in a few weeks. His troops were forced to retreat. I had the idea that the UK and Europe would be less united. We are more united. “
“He sought to form a department within OTAN. La NATO has only been strengthened through his actions. It sought fewer NATO troops on its border. It has more.
“He made a calculated bet and didn’t pay. The West is united, once again, in its favor of Ukraine and will have to continue to do so. “
Read Theresa May’s full article here.
Instead of generating and repairing mining equipment, the staff is trained to build metal bunkers at a metal factory in Kryvyi Rih, thanks to a task presented through the metallurgical company Metinvest.
Materials have already been sent to the provinces of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk to build underground shelters with a Soviet-era design.
Each shelter will require only about two tons of metal, as they are built to cope with shells of calibers up to 152 mm and will be buried 1. 5 m underground.
The shelter will house six infantrymen and will have beds, as well as a portable stove and double floor for weapons store, as well as a surface exit and a front accessible through a tunnel.
Petro Zhuk leads a team of 40 other people who build one shelter per day, which usually requires 165 hours of work.
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