Ukrainians Hold Back Invasion of Russian Occupiers (Online)
- 4.03.2022, 1:05
(updated) Occupier shelling has set the Zaporizhzhya NPP on fire.
Ukrainians have been bravely resisting the Russian invasion for nine days. Troops and equipment of the Russian aggressor are trying to get closer to the capital of Ukraine. However, Kyiv is holding the line. Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Sumy remain under Ukrainian control. In the northern, northeastern, eastern and southern regions of our country, fighting with the occupant continues.
Charter97.org is broadcasting online on the ninth day of the war. You can see what was happening in Ukraine until 11:59 p.m. on March 3 in our previous online broadcast.
A special broadcast of the Ukraine 24 TV channel
11:04 A Ukrainian air defence unit near Zatoka shot down a Russian aircraft that attacked one of the military infrastructure facilities. The enemy pilot, who managed to eject, is wanted.
11:03 Russia's largest private oil company, Lukoil, has called for an early end to the war in Ukraine.
10:58 Pentagon spokesman John Kirby says the Ukrainian military is fighting very resourcefully against the Russian occupiers who have invaded Ukraine.
"The Russians were confused. They were frustrated, pushed back, slowed down by tough and determined Ukrainian resistance. We also believe they stumbled," the Pentagon spokesman added.
10:52 AMD and Intel have suspended shipments of all products to Russia and Belarus. User, server and graphics processors were subject to restrictions.
10:45 Russian troops hit a school in the city of Zhytomyr. The mayor of the city, Sergei Sukhomlin, announced this. Information on casualties and victims is being clarified. In fact, half of the school was destroyed. Rescue work is underway.
10:41 Not far from Bashtanka, the Ukrainian military captured the enemy's Pantsir-C1.
10:31 Advisor to the head of the Office of President Mikhail Podolyak once again called on the world community to close the sky over Ukraine. "The logic of this war is a build-up of missile and air strikes on civilian infrastructure, major cities and civilians," he stressed.
According to him, only a closed sky would dramatically stop the escalation.
10:21 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham on Fox Live called for the elimination of Putin.
"Somebody in Russia needs to take responsibility and remove this guy. You would do your country and the world a great favor," the senator said...
10:07 The General Staff of the AFU published data on losses of the occupants from February 24 to March 4:
- personnel - 9166 people,
- tanks - 251 units,
- armored combat vehicles - 939 units,
- artillery systems -105 units,
- MLRS - 50 units,
- air defense means - 18 units,
- aircraft - 33 units (updated),
- helicopters - 37 units,
- motor vehicles - 404 units,
- light speed boats - 2 units,
- tanks with APM-60,
- UAVs of operational-tactical level - 3,
10:06 Belarusians launched a housing search service for Ukrainians who left the country.
10:02 The largest developer of software for construction and engineering Autodesk suspends its work in Russia because of Putin's aggression.
10:00 Chief editor of the Russian version of the propaganda channel Russia Today Maria Baronova condemned Putin's regime and resigned.
"Our grandfathers didn't fight for such things, everything is betrayed, everything is trampled. Just a week ago, I was writing about NATO propaganda, speculating about Russophobia, and it turns out they are right, and I am not. But our grandfathers did not fight for such things. And now they are betrayed. Everything is betrayed. Everything is trampled by those who set it up.
And if I choose to be with Russia, it doesn't mean that I should step into a totalitarian regime, keep silent, or, for example, be happy that a regime that I don't want and my country is being exported elsewhere. But this regime will finally turn our lives into one endless hell. Indeed. Already turned," she declared.
09:48 Russian military surrendering in large numbers.
09:43 Morning video from Gostomel, where the enemy troops were forced out yesterday. RF equipment was destroyed and many bodies were next to it.
09:32 Google no longer sells advertising in the Russian market - Reuters. It will not be possible to buy ads from the web search engine, YouTube or partners.
09:30 AFU showed the broken equipment of the aggressor near Brovary.
09:28 The Times reports there have been at least three assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelensky in the last week. Two different groups were sent to kill the Ukrainian president - mercenaries from the pro-Kremlin Wagner PMC and Chechen special forces. Each time the attempts failed due to employees of the Russian Federal Security Service, which opposes the war with Ukraine, writes the publication.
09:27 AFU defeated a column of occupants in Bucha.
09:25 Zaporizhzhya NPP site seized by the Russian military.
09:12 Russia continues preparations for the landing of amphibious entry in the areas of Zatoka and Chernomorsk. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Armed Forces reports this. Russia engages Su-24M bombers and drops RBK-500 cluster bombs to suppress Ukraine's anti-assault defense system on the Black Sea coast. The cover is provided by Su-30SM fighters, the Ukrainian General Staff says.
09:08 Current Time journalists collected video how ordinary Ukrainians meet Russian troops. People just openly flip off the invaders on the roads.
09:01 Ordinary Ukrainians from the units of the terror defense destroyed the occupiers' equipment near Poltava.
08:52 "The movement of a large number of vehicles from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea. The occupiers carry criminals from the penitentiary facilities to organize unrest in the Mykolaiv region," the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement.
08:48 AFU defeated a column of Putin's army in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region.
08:36 Current information on the morning of March 4:
- As of 06:20 (Kyiv time), the fire in the training building of the Zaporizhzhia NPP has been extinguished. There were no casualties or injuries.
- The main efforts of the occupiers are focused on encircling Kyiv and weakening resistance in the blocked settlements.
- In the Volyn direction, the enemy with the help of two BTGs took defensive action in the areas of Polesskoye and Kukhari.
- In the Polesye direction, a group of occupants consisting of military units of the Eastern Military District with up to fifteen BTGs conducts an offensive operation in the Kozarovichi, Vyshgorod Fastov, Obukhov areas, concentrating efforts in the Byshev and Ukrainka directions. In the fight for the lines near the settlements of Polesskoye, Povar, Borodyanka, Byshev, Gorenichi, Demidov, the enemy partially lost the offensive potential. The main enemy forces are blocked and stopped in the Makarov area. The occupiers retreated from Bucha and the airfield Gostomel.
- In the Seversk direction, a grouping of troops of the Central Military District with up to fourteen BTGs, as well as the 14th Army District of the Northern Fleet conducts an offensive operation in the area of Oster, Zazimye, Berezan, Vishenki, focusing efforts in the direction of Kyiv. At the same time, the enemy is regrouping to continue the attack in the direction of Brovary.
- In the Slobozhany direction, a grouping of Western Military District with up to sixteen BTGs is conducting an offensive operation, concentrating efforts in the direction of Novomoskovsk. They are blocking Kharkiv from the north. Seized Balakleya. The enemy failed near Akhtyrka and concentrated the main forces near Gadyach and Zenkiv.
08:17 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky that he was summoning an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council in the near future because of the situation around the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
07:27 No radiation leakage has been detected at the Zaporizhzhya NPP so far.
07:24 The fire in the training building of the Zaporizhzhya NPP was brought under control. The area of the fire is 2,000 square meters. It is noted that there are no victims or casualties tentatively.
06:53 A total of 40 people and 10 units of equipment are involved in extinguishing the fire at the NPP, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry reports.
According to the mayor of Elektrodar, there is no shelling at the Zaporizhzhya NPP at the moment.
06:21 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had discussed the ZNPP issue with Joe Biden (US President), Charles Michel (President of the European Council), Olaf Scholz (German Chancellor), Boris Johnson (British Prime Minister), Andrzej Duda (Polish President).
05:54 Current information about the attack of Russian occupiers on the NPP:
One of the buildings of the training complex is burning as a result of the shelling on the territory of the NPP. The third, fourth and fifth floors of the five-story building are on fire.
The invaders do not allow the units of the State Emergencies Service to start liquidation of the consequences of the fire.
In Energodar, one power unit out of six is operating at the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
05:44 The International Atomic Energy Agency contacted representatives of the Ukrainian authorities after the shelling of NPP by Russian occupiers. They say they are aware of the situation.
04:54 Russian troops shelling Zaporizhzhya NPP.
04:49 The President of Ukraine rings the alarm because of the fire at the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
04:37 Kadyrov soldiers broke into the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. There is a fight inside with Ukrainian national guardsmen. Kadyrov soldiers will now try to mine the NPP and blackmail all of Europe.
04:19 Firefighters were allowed into the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. The head of Zaporizhzhya regional military administration Oleksandr Starukh reports this.
04:10 Staff of the Prosecutor's Office of the Hague Tribunal has left for Ukraine to start an investigation of Russia's war crimes against Ukraine.
03:51 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on the Russian occupation troops to immediately stop shooting at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which caused a fire at the plant.
Kuleba wrote on Twitter that Russian troops were shooting at Zaporizhzhya NPP from all sides and noted that it was the largest NPP in Europe.
"The fire has already broken out. If it explodes, it will be 10 times worse than Chernobyl! Russians must stop the fire immediately, allow firefighters in, create a safety zone!" Kuleba stated.
03:31 Energoatom appealed to the world community and warned that the shelling of Zaporizhzhya NPP power units with heavy weapons is "a strict violation of nuclear and radiation safety of Europe's largest nuclear facility, which can lead to severe and tragic consequences for the entire world".
03:21 Firefighters can't start firefighting at Zaporizhzhia NPP - shot at point-blank range. The occupants hit the first power unit.
03:11 The fire at Zaporizhzhya NPP is still not extinguished. The wind is now blowing towards the southeastern regions of Ukraine and Russia's Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar
02:55 The fire at the NPP is getting stronger.
02:45 A fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhya NPP. Russian occupiers shelled the power units.
02:34 Fierce fighting has been going on at the outskirts of the Zaporizhzhya NPP for over an hour - the Ukrainian military is fighting back the Russian occupiers, who are trying to advance to the plant to capture it.
02:23 Russia used almost the entire combat stock of Kalibr missiles. In addition, the enemy lost most of the groupings for the offensive in Ukraine. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
02:05 Lions and tigers from Ukraine were successfully evacuated to Poland. A truck with six lions, six tigers, two caracals and an African wild dog from a reserve near Kyiv has arrived at the Poznan Zoo.
01:38 Ukraine's air defenses destroyed three Russian occupant aircraft in the past 24 hours: SU-30SM, SU-34 and SU-25.
01:10 At Kherson airport, the AFU poured fire on about a thousand Russian servicemen. There were 20 helicopters and about 200 vehicles. This was reported by Oleksiy Arestovich, advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
01:08 Belarusians have launched a housing search service for Ukrainians who left the country.