Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko remarked that the situation in Kyiv was under control by the units of Ukraine's Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense forces, but at night, there were skirmishes and shootings with the occupiers' sabotage and recon groups.
Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (RNBO) Oleksii Danilov considers that the Ukrainian military and Ukraine’s political authority have managed to intercept the military initiative in the confrontation against Russian military aggression.
According to the Russian media " Taiga.Info " the commander of the Russian National Guard (‘Rosgvardiya’ – ed.) unit in the Kemerovo Oblast (region – ed.), Konstantin Ogiy, along with dozens of fighters, was killed near Kyiv. A plane with their bodies is expected in Siberia.
Source : Siberian media " Taiga.Info "
Details : Journalist sources claim that at least 42 Russian National Guard soldiers together with the commander of the Kemerovo Oblast SOBR (Rapid Intervention Unit – ed.), Colonel Konstantin Ogiy, were killed in an attempt to seize the airfield in Hostomel near Kyiv. He had experience of fighting in Chechnya and Afghanistan.
In addition, Russian media sources suggest that the losses may be higher, as the exact number of dead and captured riot police members is unknown.
OMON (riot police – ed.) and SOBR (Rapid Intervention Unit – ed.) are designed to protect public order in cities and pursue criminals. However, according to the sources, they were used to try to capture the military airfield in the battle with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A plane with the bodies of those killed on 28 February is expected in the Kemerovo region.
Meanwhile, neither the Russian Ministry of Defence nor Rosgvardiya responded to journalist inquiries.
In the Lugansk region, the defence is holding out. The hardest situation is currently in the area of Girske, where the Russian army has fired on most of the surrounding villages.
Last night in Kharkiv the defence repelled the attacks of the enemy and stopped the advance of the Russian occupation army. Many military vehicles of the enemy were destroyed. Kharkiv is under Ukrainian control.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov will not attend a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva due to new travel requirements resulting from sanctions against Russia. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to provide documents necessary to enable his participation.
In the small hours of 28 February, the fifth day of the Russian invasion, Russian forces continued their attempts to break through Kyiv's defences. Their assault continues to be unsuccessful, as the situation in the capital remains under firm control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Vyacheslav Markhaev, a member of the CPRF (Communist Party of Russia) and of Derzhavna Duma from the Republic of Buryatia, has condemned the military attack by Russia on Ukraine.
Russian occupation forces in Crimea have begun to actively recruit men into various units of the Russian army to go to war against Ukraine, according to the Crimean Platform.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he had a long and substantive conversation with the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. Zelenskyy explained to him that our nations mustn't clash.
