How the night attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Luhansk "bogged down" - but dragged Russia into the war
February 24, 2022
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18.20 Ukrainian security forces fired at the Kievsky district of Donetsk, at least 9 shells exploded, preliminary, 3 people were injured - RIA Novosti.
18.15 Nikolaevka and Novognatovka came under the control of the DPR.
18.10 A group of Ukrainian deputies wrote an appeal to Zelensky with a request to start immediate negotiations with Russia.
18 Statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry:
Western countries do not have a monopoly on international law and on the driving forces of international development. Neither the EU nor NATO, as Art. 8 of the Charter for European Security adopted at the OSCE Istanbul Summit in November 1999, “cannot be vested with primary responsibility for maintaining peace and stability in the OSCE region or consider any part of it as its sphere of influence.” No one authorized the EU to solve the problems of war and peace in Europe; only the UN Security Council has such an international legal prerogative.
18.00 Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko introduced a curfew in the Ukrainian capital.
17.40 Water is released into the Crimea through the North Crimean Canal.
17.25 A video circulating online, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly use Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones against Russian tanks, turned out to be fake. 2015 footage from Syria - RT.
17.20 In the Petrovsky area, 15 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to the side of the DPR.
16.45 The situation in Pridnestrovie is manageable and controlled, Oleg Belyakov, co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission for the management of the peacekeeping operation from Pridnestrovie, said.
16.40 Settlements of the DPR provided with electricity - Pushilin.
16.35 Russian Foreign Ministry: this is not the beginning of a war, this is an attempt to prevent a global war.
16.30 Konashenkov (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation): as a result of Russian strikes, 74 ground objects of the military infrastructure of Ukraine were disabled, including 11 airfields of the Air Force, 3 command posts, a naval base and 18 radar stations of the S-300 and Buk-M1 air defense systems.
16.25 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: As a result of a pilot error, a Su-25 attack aircraft crashed in the Russian Aerospace Forces, the pilot ejected and is already in his unit.
16.20 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: "Shoigu gave a special order to all commanders to treat Ukrainian servicemen with respect."
16.10 Published footage of a broken tank column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kherson.
16.00 In the LPR, they said that since the beginning of the day, up to two companies of Ukrainian security forces have been killed and wounded - RIA Novosti.
15.55 Zelensky, in a conversation with the Chancellor of Austria, said that he "does not know how long his country will last" - RT.
15.35 UAF shot 5 of their soldiers who tried to go over to the side of the People's Militia of the LPR - RIA Novosti.
15.30 Shelling in the south of the DPR is several times stronger than in the Donetsk direction - Eduard Basurin.
15.20 The people's militia of the LPR took control of the settlement of Lopaskino.
15.15 FSB: At 11.15 a.m., 26 Ukrainian border guards arrived at the Troebortnoe checkpoint in the Bryansk region, and at 12.10 a.m. 16 servicemen arrived at the Dzhankoy checkpoint in Crimea, refusing to further serve in Ukraine.
15.10 The offensive in the Donetsk region is going according to plan, there are no schedule failures, Eduard Basurin, a representative of the DPR, told RIA Novosti.
15.00 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry began the evacuation of the Ukrainian embassy from Moscow - RIA Novosti.
14.50 Ukrainian border guards left all units on the Russian-Ukrainian border - FSB of the Russian Federation.
14.50 Soldiers of the 57th brigade of the Ukrainian army surrender under a white flag and lay down their arms. After the end of hostilities, they will be released home - RIA Novosti.
14.40 Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov to the Ukrainians: let's drive out the pack that has settled in Kiev together.
14.15 SBU burns documents in the center of Kiev - RIA Novosti.
14.00 Peskov: Russia's goal is the denazification of Ukraine. The timing of Russia's operation in Ukraine will be determined by the president. Russia is ready to communicate with the leadership of Ukraine if Kiev is ready to speak on the issues raised by the Russian side.
13.55 Two Russian civilian cargo ships were subjected to a missile attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sea of Azov, there are wounded - FSB.
13.40 Lukashenka "today or tomorrow" will talk with Putin about how to cover the western direction - RIA Novosti.
13.35 The LPR said that the military of the 57th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian army voluntarily laid down their arms and went over to their side - RT
13.20 The evacuation of the population of the DPR was stopped, as the situation in the region became calm.
13.05 A webcam on the road towards Tavriysk, near the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station (70 km from the border deep into Ukraine), recorded the movement of a column of military armored vehicles with Z symbols on their armor.
13.00 Military warehouses are burning in Odessa.
12.50 Igor Konashenkov (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation):
The people's militia of the DPR and LPR launched a counteroffensive with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces. The grouping of troops of the DPR, advancing on Volnovakha, advanced up to three kilometers, and the grouping of the LPR, advancing in the direction of the settlement of Shchastya, crossed the Seversky Donets and advanced one and a half kilometers. Now the groups of troops of the DPR and LPR are fighting and inflicting fire damage on the enemy. The Russian armed forces do not strike at the cities of Ukraine. Nothing threatens the civilian population.
12.30 Zelensky's regime breaks off diplomatic relations with Russia.
12.15 Russian warships have approached Zmeiny Island and are demanding that the servicemen of the Izmail border detachment surrender - Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
12.10 Video evidence emerged showing servicemen burning documents in a military unit near the Zhuliany airport in Kiev.
12.00 In Donetsk, Soviet posters with a call to defend the motherland are broadcast on the cinema building.
11.55 FSB: Today, at about 9.40 am, the Russian border checkpoint Tetkino in the Kursk region was fired from Ukraine. The firing point was suppressed by return fire from Russian border guards.
11.50 RIA Novosti: The head of the LNR asked if their people's militia would stop at the border of the Luhansk region: if Kharkov and Odessa turn to us for help, we will consider the proposals.
11.35 In the center of Donetsk, “arrivals” are heard in the Kievsky district. Cars of the OSCE mission in the parking lot at the hotel.
11.30 The head of Crimea gave the command to prepare the North Crimean Canal to receive Dnieper water - RIA Novosti.
11.25 At the border crossing in Uzhgorod, there is a long line of people wishing to leave for Slovakia.
11.10 Columns of Russian tanks entered the Lugansk region at the turn of the settlements of Krasnaya Talovka, Milovo, Gorodishche - the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
10.45 Russian Ministry of Defense: Intelligence data show that units and servicemen of the Ukrainian army are massively leaving their positions, abandoning their weapons.
10.35 The Ministry of National Defense of Romania reports that this morning a Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force made an unauthorized flight over the Romanian border and was landed by two F-16s of the Romanian Armed Forces at the Bacau air base.
10.30 Headquarters of the Operation of the United Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass destroyed - Pushilin.
10.25 am Eduard Basurin (DPR): Ukrainian servicemen suffer losses and ask for the opening of humanitarian corridors
10.20 Kiev asks Turkey to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles for Russia.
10.15 a.m. A video appeared showing a rocket launch from the Mogilev region. The armed forces of Belarus are participating in the military operation against Ukraine together with Russia.
10.10 President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered to inflict maximum losses on the military personnel of the Russian Federation - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10.05 WarGonzo: “Air defense units, HF units, Nazi units of the Azov Regiment and DUK PS units near the city of Mariupol were destroyed. Residents of Mariupol hang out the flags of the Russian Federation.
10.00 A battle is going on near Dokuchaevsk. Heavy artillery and Grads are working in both directions - Ilya Vasyunin (RT).
9.55 Russian military in Kharkov.
9.50 The Ukrainian border service shows how Russian military equipment enters the country through the border with Crimea.
9.45 Russian military equipment is moving deep into Ukraine in the Kherson and Chernihiv regions - the National Police.
9.40 Intermediate results of the Russian special operation in Ukraine: The Russian Armed Forces destroy airfields, ammunition depots, command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, strike at the Ukrainian fleet. The headquarters of the National Guard was destroyed. In some places, the Russian military crossed the border of Ukraine. The armies of the DPR and LPR went on the offensive. There is information that the army of Belarus has joined. Russian tanks 20 km from Kharkov. Our troops in the Crimea are moving towards Perekop and Chongar. Artillery is working there, attack helicopters have been spotted. Ivano-Frankivsk is being hit with cruise missiles. Kiev introduced martial law. Civil defense sirens are howling all over Ukraine. Information about landings in Mariupol and Odessa has not yet been confirmed. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation denies the loss.
9.25 An unknown object (presumably military warehouses) is burning in Mirgorod, Poltava region.
9.20 Russian K-52 helicopters loiter over Luhansk.
9.15 People's militia began artillery preparation and an operation to liberate the temporarily occupied territory of the LPR - the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko.
9.10 The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for the introduction of martial law.
9.05 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The means of air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are suppressed. The military infrastructure of the airbases of the armed forces of Ukraine has been disabled. The information of foreign media about the Russian plane allegedly shot down over the territory of Ukraine does not correspond to reality.
9.00 Ukrainian border guards do not offer any resistance to Russian units - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
8.55 The Kulbakino military airfield of the Nikolaev region (where the Turkish Bayraktars were based) was put out of action.
8.50 Strike on the military airfield in Lutsk (Western Ukraine).
8.45 Ukraine has lost control over two settlements - these are the villages of Melovoye and Gorodishche in the Luhansk region - the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine.
8.40 Russian military equipment enters Ukraine from Belarus. This is evidenced by footage from the Senkovka-Veselovka border crossing.
8.35 Military commander of the WarGonzo project Dmitry Seleznev told "SP" that everything is calm in the center of Donetsk.
8.30 The Border Service of Ukraine reports that their Belarusian counterparts are operating along with Russian servicemen.
8.25 Attack on the airport in Ivano-Frankivsk.
At 0820 hours, the Russian Armed Forces struck at the military airfields of Kramatorsk, Ozernoye, Kulbakino, and Vasilkov. In addition, storage bases and weapons depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — Yuriy Biryukov, a former adviser to Poroshenko, were subjected to massive strikes.
8.10 Civil defense sirens sound in Kiev.
8.05 LPR units launched an assault on the city of Shchastye, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - an adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.
8:00 a.m. The DPR forces strike at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire line of contact using all means of destruction available to them - Basurin.
At 7:50 a.m. , the Russian Defense Ministry issued a special appeal in which it emphasized that all missile strikes by our troops are carried out against infrastructure facilities, warehouses, aviation and the fleet. High-precision strikes, no one is going to bomb cities.
7.30 Russian Ministry of Defense: Military infrastructure, air defense facilities, military airfields and aviation of the Ukrainian army are disabled by high-precision weapons. Explosions are heard in Kharkov, Odessa, Kramatorsk, Odessa, Mariupol, Sumy, etc.
Editorial material about the events of the night of February 24
Night news from Donbass - either "lightning", or "bomb". The armed forces of Ukraine, apparently, launched an offensive against the positions of the Lugansk People's Republic in the Nikolaevka area. This was announced by VGTRK war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel by phone .
“Now, after an artillery strike on the positions of the fighters of the Lugansk People’s Republic, a shooting battle has begun, it is going on right now. We observe the explosion of shells, we observe that the attack is coming from several directions at once, but there has been no official information about what is happening in this area, ”said Poddubny, who was quoted by Interfax.
Two hours later, the same “Rossiya” military commander reported that units of the LPR people’s militia received reinforcements – artillery and tanks – and pushed back the attackers from the heights near Nikolaevka. The attack “bogged down”, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost nine people in it.
While a rapid shooting battle broke out near Nikolaevka, the heads of the DPR and LPR Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik sent urgent letters to the Kremlin to Putin with a request to help the people's republics in repelling aggression from Ukraine.
The letters, it seems, were electronic, or they were not brought from Donbass. They got where they needed to go in less than an hour. And already the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov , reading out the text of the messages, conveyed that military aggression in the Donbass by the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues, civil and industrial infrastructure is being destroyed, and civilians are dying. Kiev still does not want to "stop the war", but on the contrary - "is focused on the forceful solution of the conflict."
“Given the foregoing, the heads of the two republics, in connection with the current situation, as well as in order to prevent civilian casualties and a humanitarian catastrophe, on the basis of Articles 3 and 4 of the treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between the Russian Federation and the republics, ask the President of Russia to assist in repelling aggression of the armed forces and formations of Ukraine,” Peskov said .
Before the Kremlin spokesman had time to speak, his opponent from the White House entered the stage. Let me remind you that the battle near Nikolaevka was in full swing. Jen Psaki 's key statement was short - the US will not fall for it.
“There is no scenario in which the president ( Joe Biden ) sends American troops to fight in Ukraine against Russia. We will not fight Russia and will not deploy troops in Ukraine to fight Russia,” Psaki said .
However, Washington's statement can be considered a response not only to Moscow, but also to Kiev. There, too, they fussed in the midst of a night battle near Nikolaevka.
“Ukraine has initiated an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the appeal of the Russian occupation administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk to Russia with a request for military support, which is a further escalation of the security situation,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba , his words quoted by Interfax .
The Security Council meeting began at 5-30 Moscow time. According to news agencies, UN Secretary General António Guterres called on Vladimir Putin to stop Russian troops from "invading" Ukraine and give peace a chance. But in Moscow they did not hear him. The Russian president has already announced on state TV channels - to the country and the world - that he has decided to conduct a special operation in the Donbass.
“Circumstances require us to take decisive and immediate action. The people's republics of Donbass turned to Russia with a request for help. In this regard, in accordance with Article 51, Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the sanction of the Federation Council and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the DPR and LPR ratified by the Federal Assembly, I have decided to conduct a special military operation,” Putin said.
Russia's plans, according to the president, do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories. At the same time, the Russian Federation will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. Putin also called on Ukrainian servicemen to "lay down their arms and go home." The Russian president placed all responsibility for possible bloodshed on the Ukrainian authorities.
Vladimir Putin addressed a few words to those who, according to him, want to intervene from the outside: “Whoever tries to interfere with us, and even more so to create threats for our country, and even more so for our people, should know that Russia's response will be immediate. We are ready for any development of events. All decisions necessary for this have been made.”
For the past eight years, there has been, in fact, a civil war in Ukraine. Earlier this week, with the recognition of the people's republics, we were one step closer to having this war ours. Not even two days have passed since we made this step.
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