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8 March 2022
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21:29
The Russian Ministry of Defence and the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, claim that conscripts are not fighting in Ukraine. However, there are Russian prisoners who have already claimed that they are conscripts in the Russian Army.
21:15
Two people were killed as a result of Russian occupying forces shelling the village of Dinets near Kharkiv. One of the victims was a seven-year-old child.
21:11
Russian troops have disabled 61 hospitals in Ukraine during 13 days of the war. Windows, walls and medical equipment have been damaged.
21:11
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling on other countries to follow the example of the United States and ban the import of Russian oil, gas and coal.
20:55
Russian occupying forces bombed a residential building and the Izovat plant in Zhytomyr on 8 March.
20:09
Russian troops launched an air strike on a military unit in the Boryspil district of Kyiv region; people were injured.
20:05
Poland is ready to transfer the MiG-29 fighter jets requested by Ukraine to the US Ramstein Airbase in Germany but asks the US to provide replacements.
19:51
Prime Minister Denis Shmygal called on people from all over the world to gather on the squares of their cities on March 9, 10 and 11 with a demand to close the skies over Ukraine.
19:30
On 8 March, three missiles flew at Boryspil in the Kyiv region, two of which were destroyed by Ukrainian air defence forces.
19:20
Peter Maurer, President of The International Committee of the Red Cross, assures that he makes every effort to organize humanitarian corridors to and from Mariupol.
19:03
Mykolaiv residents have within a few hours supplied the city with car tires to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces to stop the Russian invaders.
18:45
The zoo known as "Park 12 misyatsiv" (12-month park - ed.) in Demydiv, near Kyiv, reports that it is suffering from the Russian occupation. The village where it is located, along with other nearby villages, are cut off from gas and electricity.
18:38
Hackers broke into the websites of several Russian federal agencies and replaced them with cartoons against the war with Ukraine.
18:32
170 civilians, including 5 children, have been killed in Kharkiv by Russian troops since the start of the war.
18:26
Georgia’s former Minister of Defence Irakly Okruashvili has arrived in Ukraine together with other Georgian volunteers in order to fight against Russia.
18:23
Ukrposhta, the Ukrainian Postal Service, received almost 500 letters with sketches for postage stamps as part of the competition announced on the topic "Russkiy korabl idi nahui" (Russian warship, f*ck you).
18:19
In the Vovchansk district of Kharkiv region, the Russians attempted to land an assault group, but most of the group was eliminated by Ukrainian armed forces.
18:12
According to intelligence gathered by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence, Russia is carrying out clandestine mobilisation, has banned military personnel from terminating their contracts and is planning to move up to a thousand fighters belonging to the private military company Liga (formerly the Wagner Group) into the Kyiv area.
18:00
Since the beginning of the war with Russia, 167,000 citizens have returned to Ukraine from abroad. 80% of them are men.
17:55
Russian troops opened fire at a bus carrying evacuees from Makariv near Kyiv.
17:30
In Ukraine's second round of war bond sales, UAH 6.7 billion was raised for the country's budget, the Ministry of Finance's press service reported.
17:09
The Chief of the National Defence Management Centre Mikhail Mizintsev claims in a statement that 2.5 million Ukrainians have "requested to be evacuated to Russia." He did not provide any proof.
17:00
In Kharkiv, Russian soldiers shot and killed two volunteers who came to the Feldman Ecopark to feed the animals kept there.
16:55
The German chemical concern BASF, one of the leaders among the manufacturers of chemical plant protection products, will continue to supply Russia, despite the announcement of February 24 about their cessation.
16:50
Ukraine’s Ministry of Education wants to cancel the State Final Attestation, the National Independent Test, the Unified Entrance Examination and the Unified Professional Entrance Examination in 2022.
16:13
The Government has significantly simplified, and continues to simplify, the entry of humanitarian aid into Ukraine.
15:51
The Ukrainian Parliament majority Sluha Narodu Party has proposed to sign a new security guarantee agreement for Ukraine with the United States, Turkey, and Russia instead of NATO membership.
15:48
Protests against the Russian occupation continue in the Kherson Region and in the city of Kherson.
15:45
On 7 March, a car was blown up by a Russian anti-personnel mine in the Chernihiv Region, killing 3 civilians and injuring 3 children.
15:40
A shooting in the town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region on 7 March killed one person, 14 are wounded.
15:01
Belarusian journalist Anton Mololko has shared a video showing military vehicles on the move, possibly heading for Ukraine, including Tochka-U tactical operational missile complexes, rockets for Iskander mobile short-range hypersonic ballistic missile systems, Nona light-weight, self-propelled and air-droppable 120 mm gun systems, Strela-10 mobile, short-range surface-to-air missile systems, and armoured vehicles.
14:56
Russian troops have completely destroyed the central city hospital in Izyum (Kharkiv region).
14:08
The Mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov has said that he has received a message from the Russian occupiers urging him to hand over Kharkiv.
13:39
Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the Head of Sumy Military Administration, announced that during the evacuation of civilians there was shooting on the outskirts of the city, although the buses were not being shot at and the ‘humanitarian corridor’ to leave Sumy is operational.
13:27
The Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, appealed to Ukraine’s international partners and NATO asking for military planes and air defence weaponry, if Ukraine’s request for a "no-fly zone" cannot be met.
13:25
Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers are accepting applications for businesses to evacuate from the war zone to the west of Ukraine and is ready to provide business conditions for work in the new location.
13:13
Former mayor of Irpin, local developer Volodymyr Karplyuk, spoke about the horrors committed by the aggressors in Vorzel, Bucha, Gostomel, Zabuchia and Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka. In these towns there are mostly no communications with the outside world, food and water have run out and there is no electricity and heating.
13:10
There are still signs that the military-political leadership of Belarus is ready for the possible large-scale participation of their armed forces in combat operations against Ukraine on the side of the Russian Federation.
12:46
12:34
Ukrainian Armed Forces have carried out at least seven counter-attacks in the last 24 hours.
12:12
Propaganda radio station Sputnik will broadcast on a frequency used by "Echo of Moscow" in the Russian Federation.
11:11
10:46
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the world to understand the scale of the inhumane actions of the Russian invaders in Ukraine who continue to violate the rules of war.
10:38
As of the morning of March 8, Russian troops have inhibited the evacuation of civilians in the Kyiv Region.
10:37
The prosecutor's office has launched a pre-trial investigation into Russian Federation's air strikes on Sumy, which killed 21 civilians, two of them children.
10:24
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has once again called on Russian President, Volodymyr Putin, to enter into a dialogue. Zelenskyy agrees to look for compromises, including regarding the topic of NATO, but is unwilling to surrender.
10:21
Reinforcements from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, complete with equipment, have arrived in Mykolaiv. The Forces are preparing an attack on the Russian troops, according to the Head of the Regional Administration, Vitaliy Kim.
10:18
The Center for Counteracting Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council denies the allegation that Kyivvodokanal has insufficient stocks of reagents for the purposes of water disinfection.
09:17
Ukraine's Armed Forces seized a Russian flagship tank in Sumy. It was intact and the flag of the Russian Federation was still hoisted over it. The tank was previously used in Russian military parades.
09:13
In all territories temporarily occupied by Russian troops in Ukraine, Russian military equipment has been placed in courtyards of residential buildings. Russian troops appear to be using civilians as a human shield.
08:35
More than 600,000 people were evacuated from Kharkiv by train, since all the highways have been congested for many days now.
08:27
The total Russian losses since the beginning of the war against Ukraine are currently estimated to approximately 12,000 personnel.
08:07
Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian former president of Ukraine who fled the country after the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, addressed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged him "to stop the bloodshed at any cost."
07:39
07:09
An airstrike on the city of Sumy executed last night by Russian troops killed at least 9 people, 2 of them children.
06:58
The fire in the Chernyakhiv fuel depot in the Zhytomyr region has been extinguished.
06:12
The Ministry of Defence reports that the advance of Russian troops has slowed down. In the temporarily occupied territories, the Russian occupiers are using violence against local residents and exerting psychological pressure on them.
05:55
Ukraine’s transport infrastructure has suffered losses worth billions of hryvnias as a result of the Russian invasion.
05:45
Mobile service and the internet are blocked in Melitopol, and the TV tower and the local radio are under the occupying forces’ control.
05:36
Ukrainians were urged not to share information about the explosions taking place at night as it might reveal to the enemy the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the locations of air defence equipment.
04:59
On 7 March, 4 territorial defence fighters were killed in the Sumy region after having entered an unequal battle with the Russian troops.
04:30
Russian troops are not allowing the residents of occupied Bucha, a mostly residential town to the northwest of Kyiv, to leave their houses; they are shooting on Bucha’s streets.
02:08
Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, the Head of the Sumy Regional State Administration, reported that Russian forces dropped aerial bombs on Sumy and the surrounding vicinity after 11 pm on 7 March.
00:05
Ukrainian troops shot down three Russian fighter jets and one helicopter and destroyed a cruise missile on 7 March.
23:45
Ukrzaliznytsya (Ukrainian Railways, a state-owned rail transportation company - ed.) has transported 1.6 million people to Ukraine's western regions as of 6 March.
23:38
Minister of Energy Herman Halushchenko said that Ukraine is demanding that IAEA make an official record of the seizure of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and the Zaporozhzhiya NNP by Russia's occupying forces in Ukraine.
23:37
Russia threatens Ukraine with a "humanitarian operation" against the background of military failures
The aggressor state, Russia, says it is ready to "conduct a humanitarian operation" in Ukraine. Russians are talking about a humanitarian catastrophe in many Ukrainian cities directly caused by their aggression as an excuse for the next "operation".
23:10
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, says the International Committee of the Red Cross, which is supposed to help secure humanitarian corridors, is not fulfilling its main purpose for fear of Russia.
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