Russian troops shelled the towns of Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast overnight on March 3, injuring five people, the regional prosecutor’s office reported.Civilians in Donetsk Oblast settlements suffer from daily Russian strikes due to their pr…
Editor’s note: The Kyiv Independent is exclusively re-publishing reports prepared by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) of the University of Alberta. CIUS launched its Media Monitoring Service (MMS) in the spring of 2022 to identify and…
Russian forces have made 25 attempts to break through Ukrainian defences on the Novopavlivka front over the past 24 hours, with a total of 71 combat engagements taking place across the front.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Face…
Ukrainian forces shot down one more Su-34 attack aircraft on March 2, the Air Force said.The report came almost an hour after Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk announced that surface-to-air missiles had been fired at Russian Su-34 and Su-35 aircraft…
The New York Times has reported on “poor Ukrainian defenses” west of Avdiivka.
Source: NYT, referring to satellite images, US officials and military experts
Details: In an article headlined Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance, the…
Russian forces made 22 attempts to break through the Ukrainian defences on the Novopavlivka front, and Ukrainian forces repelled 14 Russian assaults on the Avdiivka front on Saturday, 2 March.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Fac…
French President Emmanuel Macron was left on his lonesome by his fellow European allies after saying that the possibility of sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine should not be “ruled out” in the future. Macron made the remarks on Feb. 26 at …
Hungarian parliament acting speaker Sandor Lezsak has signed off on Sweden’s accession to NATO after Hungary’s legislature ratified it earlier this week, Reuters reported on March 2, citing the parliament’s voting records.The legislation will now go to…
Ukraine may receive the first of the 800,000 artillery shells identified through a Czech-led allied initiative “within weeks,” Bloomberg reported on March 1, citing Czech Deputy Defense Minister Jan Jires.As Kyiv faces critical ammunition shortages due…
Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on March 2 said he was forced to make “personnel decisions” regarding some eastern front brigade commanders whose actions “threaten the life and health” of their soldiers.Syrskyi replaced Valerii Zaluzhnyi as the co…