Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his forces have managed to “stabilize” their battlefield positions despite a significant decrease in ammunition supplies, speaking during his nightly address to the nation. He said that four people were killed in a Russian drone strike in the Kharkiv region a day prior, a figure that included three rescue workers.
Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 13 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russian forces from Crimea. CNBC is not able to independently verify developments on the ground.
Ukraine has managed to “stabilize” its positions on the home battlefield, in “all those areas of the front where the Russian army expected to succeed at the moment,” Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.
“Given the shortage of shells and a significant slowdown in supplies, these results are really good,” the head of state assessed, noting he has tasked the missile program to provide Ukrainian defense forces with a “robust and increasing missile support.”
Zelenskyy separately acknowledged four people were killed in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, following a Russian strike with an Iranian-make “Shahed” drone on a residential area. The toll included three rescuers from Ukraine’s state emergency service.
The Kyiv leader added he has spoken with the military to bolster air defense for Kharkiv, Sumy and the country’s southern regions.
— Ruxandra Iordache
Early on the morning of February 24th, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on state television that Russia will carry out a 'special military operation' in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow claims the 'operation' is aimed at 'denazification and demilitarization' of Ukrainian territory at the request of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk 'people's republics', and is based on the right to self-defence. Russia also says that it does not attack the civilian population.
But, the fact is, Russian armed forces have killed innocent people, including children and the elderly. Russia deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and falsely claims that it is Ukraine's army that puts people's lives at risk.
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A woman, man and 3-year-old child died by shelling in the Izium district, between the villages of Shevelivka and Husarivka. Also in the Izium district, the Russian military fired artillery shells at the village of Oskil, killing seven people including a 7-year-old boy, reports the Regional Prosecutor's Office. Five people were injured.
Earlier it was reported that heavy battles are ongoing near Izium, the south is controlled by the Ukrainian army, the north is occupied by the Russians. Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleh Synyehubov said that the invaders are trying to reach Donbas through Izium to "cut off the Joint Forces Operation line".
Russian-installed officials say six civilians killed in Ukrainian attacks
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Russian-installed officials said a total of six civilians were killed on Thursday in Ukrainian attacks on Russian-controlled parts of southern and eastern Ukraine.
A Russian official in Kherson region, Andrey Alekseenko, said two people died in a village where one drone struck a car and a second drone was fired at a passenger who had managed to crawl away from the vehicle.
He said a separate attack killed two members of a repair crew that was working to restore mobile communications. Another person was in hospital in critical condition.
Russian-installed officials in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, said two people had been killed there on Thursday by Ukrainian shelling and nine others were wounded.
Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war that is now in its third year. The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission said in February that more than 10,000 civilians had been killed in Ukraine and nearly 20,000 wounded.
— Reuters
Russian forces carried out an overnight attack with anti-aircraft guided missiles and ballistic projectiles from the Belgorod region north of the border with Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force reported in a Google-translated post on Telegram.
The unit also said it shot down 13 Iranian-make “Shahed” drones launched by Russian forces from Cape Chauda in occupied Crimea. All of the drones were shot down over the Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions, the Ukrainian air force said.
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