Representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission MOSCOW, Mar 4The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) continues to record explosions in the Kherson region and evacuate or transfer its personnel from cities in Ukraine. «On the morning of March 3, the SMM continued to hear explosions (in the area of) the city of Kherson … areas of the north-west of Kherson,» the organization's report says. The mission also reported on the continued evacuation of staff from Kharkiv and the transfer of workers previously located in Kramatorsk and Dnipro. In addition, the transfer of members of the mission who worked in Severodonetsk has begun. On Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Russian army had taken full control of the Ukrainian city of Kherson. He noted that negotiations are ongoing between the Russian command, the administration of the city and the region to address issues of maintaining the functioning of social infrastructure facilities, ensuring law and order and the security of the population. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. On the morning of March 3, more than 1.6 thousand objects were hit, 62 aircraft, 606 tanks and other armored vehicles were destroyed, and so on. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The RF Armed Forces achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 2, 498 Russian servicemen were killed and 1,597 wounded during the operation. Among the Ukrainian side, according to the Russian military department, the losses are many times higher: more than 2,870 killed and about 3,700 wounded. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports a number of cases of voluntary laying down of arms by Ukrainian troops — they are guaranteed safety and return to their families. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian security forces are deploying multiple rocket launchers right in the residential areas of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Putin called this a terrorist tactic.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
Yesterday, 23: 36The aggravation of the situation in the DPR and LPR The DPR reported that a civilian was injured during shelling by Ukrainian troops
